Sentence:  All campers swam, hiked, and attended campfires, but at many camps the youngest children had their own play spaces, a higher counselor-camper ratio, and the attention of a “<WSD>Camp Mother</WSD>” (often the wife or mother of the camp director), while the oldest children enjoyed special privileges such as later bedtimes or intercamp dances. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A woman employed to look after the youngest children at a summer camp.