Colin Sheridan: The Sunday night parenting crisis you won’t see on Instagram

Faced with a forgotten summer camp booking and two overly prepared children, Colin Sheridan chooses panic — and then improv

'Your children have decided that they cannot wait for this particular camp. The Camp of Camps. The Camp to end all Camps. The Coachella of Camps.' 

There is anxiety, and then there is the very acute anxiety only a parent can feel on a Sunday night in the middle of July. When you can't find the confirmation email for a summer camp for your kids that you may have booked in March. 

It's a big maybe, and it's getting bigger with every mention of this camp by your children who, out of absolutely nowhere, have decided that they cannot wait for this particular camp. The Camp of Camps. The Camp to end all Camps. The Coachella of Camps. A camp, it turns out, you definitely discussed with their mother, but perhaps that discussion was as far as it went.