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Leslie Paris, Children's Nature: The Rise of the American Summer Camp. New York: New York University Press, 2008. 363 pp
Ah, the thrills and trials of summer camp--learning to swim in the lake; joshing in the cabin; singing goofy songs around a campfire; playing baseball on dusty fields; shivering in leaky tents on rainy overnights; learning ersatz Indian lore. The history of these memories and many more are analyzed with style and originality in Leslie Paris's readable book. More than...
Why Kids Go to Summer Camp
Overnight Summer Camp is about learning. Most adults think camp is more about Fun than life skills but nothing could be further from the truth.
Swift Nature Camp, a Children's Summer Camp has provided children the tools they need on their way to adulthood. Here is what some have had to say.
"I have been going to Swift for 8 summers and I love it there. It is like my home-away-from-home. I have met many great friends whom i still keep in contact with. While at camp you participate in many...
Summer Camp Unplugged
Each spring, Jewish parents nationwide engage in the sacred and holy ritual of writing checks to summer camp.
Josie, 8 years old, is going to overnight camp for the first time this year, which has made me reflect on my own experiences as a child at Camp Ramah in New England. I loved the lake, the trees, the pine-fragrant bunks adorned with the vintage scratchitti of long-ago youths whod presumably left camping behind for cholesterol-lowering drugs and the raising of future campers of their...
Summer Camp Savings- Discounts to Coupons
Summer camps for kids can squash a family's shoestring budget. A full session for a private overnight camp can cost over $10,000 and nonprofit camps can eat about $500 out of your piggy bank for one week.
Make Summer Camps for Kids Fit Into Your Family's Budget
With a little legwork and preparation, you can make your child a happy camper without depressing your bank account.
Day Camp Vs. Overnight Camp
Although there are many benefits to overnight camp, day camps are typically less...
Summer Camp
There are a thousands of summer camps in which to send your children. Just turn around and youll find one. But what should a good summer camp be like? Creative, fun, engaging, thought-provoking, original are some adjectives that fit the bill. Lonnie Lorenz Director of Swift Nature Camp a Wisconsin Overnight Summer Camp for boys and girls ages 6-15, has a look.
Camps have Become More Professional
The New-Age Summer Camps
Today, the premium for summer camps is high. Parents need to understand...
Summer Camp Making the Right Choice
Choosing a camp is a big decision faced by parents each and every summer. And the summer of 2010 is no exception.
When the last school bell rings, each summer parents want to know: Where to send their kids for camp? It's a choice that shouldn't be taken lightly. Any parent sending their child off better be a little nervous. Before making the decision, put together a list of requirements.
It will include:
You want it to be a safe place
You want it to have caring staff
You want it to promote...
Summer Camps Battle Technology
Today, millions of children suffer from a lack of outdoor exposure and play, summer vacation only increases a parents' concerns about their kids spending days in front of the television, computer or electronic gaming.
Even with a challenging economy, many parents realize the benefits of investing in their kids' futures with the summer camp experiences . Summer Camp is a safe and nurturing place that promotes outdoor play but more importantly it builds important life skills.
Richard Louv,...
Camp Unplugs Kids for the Summer
The below article was recently printed in American Way Magazine and was written by Winston Ross. It highlights how Overnight Summer Camps can take children away from todays technology and reestablish personal connections.
More and more, kids around the country are powering down and living it up at summer camps.
HANNAH VIROSLAV isnt bashful about recounting the pain involved in relinquishing her iPhone for the three weeks she spends each summer at Camp Champions in Central Texass Hill...
Summer Camp is More Than Fun
At Overnight Summer Camps, children are given the choice to take risks and try new things. This voluntary nature makes children more open to new experiences, with personal satisfaction as their motivation. Not only are there opportunities to try new things, but camp offers many areas for children to excel in. At a good general interest camp, the non-athlete can shine at arts and crafts, woodworking, or dramatic programs, while the athlete can also find many outlets for their skills. Perhaps...
Parents to Take Their Families to Play
WASHINGTON, DC -/PRNewswire/ Today four of the nation's leaders and experts in bringing families and nature together, The Nature Conservancy, REI, Children and Nature Network, and ecoAmerica, announced the launch of Nature Rocks an initiative created to inspire and empower parents across the country to take their families to play, explore and enjoy quality time in nature.
With summer fast approaching, parents are now focused on planning fun, family activities determining the best...
Summer Camp For Animal Loves
Animals at Summer Camp? Say Yes to Letting your kids play with animals this summer as a part of the fun they can have at camp. Find a science camp, or a more broadly defined summer camp that includes animals as a part of their program offerings.
For many children making a connection with animals is a great way to reconnect with nature. Campers can find and develop a desire to know more about the nature they find all around them. When they follow that desire, they begin to acquire a deep...
Summer Camp for the First Timer
At long last, parents of children who are going to summer camp for the first time have a choice available that is directly tailored to the needs of their child. After listening for years to parents and children expressing what they feel is important for a positive first time summer camp experience, Jeff and Lonnie Lorenz, directors of Swift Nature Camp, have created Discovery Camp, a program designed to meet the specific needs of all new campers and their parents.
Discovery Camp is a...
Summer Camp Discounts
Camp children learning through experience. Play gives children a wide range of skills and helps them develop physically, emotionally & intellectually. Kids learn by doing, living, and experiencing things for themselves. It's one thing to watch life on a computer screen yet, quite another to experience real life.
Overnight camps can be expensive, even if the experiences are worth it. You can afford to send your child to summer camp just consider the following thoughts.Summer Camp...
You Must Ask These Questions of Your Summer Camp Director
So you are thinking of sending your child to summer camp! Here are a few questions you need to ask that may affect your child's stay at camp. If an area is really important for your child and you can not find the information be sure to call the Director and ask questions.
Facilities Be careful to look at the condition of the facilities. Do the buildings well maintained,? Or do they show signs of needed maintenance. Rustic buildings are perfectly ok, make sure that they are not being neglected....
Videos and Summer Camp
As parents we need to look for opportunities that will help our children grow and mature. The right summer camp can provide just such an opportunity. But do not just settle for the camp where your child's friends go. First, with a goal in mind, make a list highlighting the items that you feel are most important for your new camper. Then, hop on the internet with your list in hand to help keep you focused as you narrow down your search and select your candidates for the Best Summer Camps.
Next,...
What Really Happens at Summer Camp
As parents we love our children and we want the best for them. Yet, what is our goal? As much as we love them its to get our kids out of the house. Yes, we need to launch them into the real world. In order to make this happen successfully we need to raise independent, self-sufficient human beings. However, little attention is given to the details of accomplishing this goal. What is the best route to take between helpless infancy and independent adulthood?
Independence is best built gradually....
Summer Adventures For Teens
While raising Teens have a certain challenge, choosing the right Teen Summer Camp may be more complicated than selecting other activities. As a child get older we see the physical change more important are the emotional, spiritual, intellectual, and social changes. We need to met our child's needs with the proper program
Finding the right summer program for teens is not all that different than that of a ten year old. It is important to find a safe, secure, and appropriate environment. Yet,...
Teen's Need Summer Camp
What are we to do with our teen this summer? Many parents wonder. They are looking for a place that offer personal growth and independence but in a safe place, away from the pressures of today. Well the answer has been around a long time, its Summer Camp! Yep, Summer Camp!
Parents of teenagers can find a summer camp that suits the needs of their child. Specialty camp like soccer camp, space camp, science camp, math camp, music camp, are all great at teaching a skill. Yet, traditional summer...
Wisconsin Summer Camp In The Movies
Movies about Overnight Summer Cam pare filled with old cabins, s'mores, bugs, archery, summer love, and much more. Most of the summer camp movies never have a real life side and clearly have a less than wholesome appeal. That is until the movie Summercamp! arrived on the scene. This move is a documentary that lets parents take an inside look at Swift Nature Camp
90 kids are let loose in the woods at Swift Nature Camp in northern Wisconsin. Camp is a place where kids can be kids, where their...
Why Go to Camp in Minnesota
For the past few year I have been going to a summer camp in Minnesota. Sure many of my friends think its crazy to leave home for a few weeks every summer and spend stay out in the middle of the woods with folks I do not know. But, during one cold winter day I decided to sit down and put my thoughts why summer camp was such an important place for me as a kid.
So here you go...
The North woods of Minnesota is more than the pristine beauty of lakes, forests and eagles flying overhead. To me it's...
Summer Camp Improves a Child's Leadership
Our country and the world for that matter needs leaders more than ever before. It's time for kids and young adults to get trained in leadership. Overnight Summer Camps tend to create children to be flexible problem solvers as well as learn to live with folks that are different. Summer Camps have long been known for their ability to promote skills that are life long. Included in these are: responsibility, independence, cooperation and teamwork, along with a willingness to try new things.
As...
Summer Camp is Part of No Child Left Inside
Anyone can read a book about ecology or see a film about wild animals. But, today's children are missing contact with the outside world. Children learn more rapidly through natural curiosity, experimentation and discovery, rather than a classroom lecture. That's just part of the benefits that nature and the outdoors impart onto kids. And much of this can be done with guided purposeful hands on play.
The Wisconsin No Child Left Inside Coalition is working to develop an Environmental Literacy...
Hints to Get Ready For Summer Camp
So you have selected the Best Overnight Summer Camp for your child. You did all the research and had your child help in the selection. Yet, preparing for camp involves more than just packing their clothes in a suitcase. You want to be sure that your kid is emotionally prepared for this Summer Camp Adventure.
Getting your child ready for camp requires a delicate balance. Talking about this exciting new experience is great but, you also don't want to overdo it. Over discussing Summer Camp can...
How to Select a Summer Camp
Selecting a Summer Camp for your camper takes some work. First think if your going to go to a Coed Camps or asigle gender like a all boys camp. Each have their own benefit. Maybe a Coed Camp is best for your child. Now work with you child to find a camp that will increase their interests or expose them to new activities. After all that, here are the top 10 questions to ask a summer camp director. This list was compiled by the American Camp Association.
What's the camp's Purpose? Is it Sports?...
Why Summer Camp Should Be Part of a Home School Program
The summer camping experience can benefit greatly the Homeschooler. Regardless, of no age, grade level or religious background. Homeschool Summer Camps provide a place where children can be self-sufficient, and that's a major part of growing up. Camp Councilors model perseverance, listening, teamwork and appreciation of differences. Whereby, helping children set new and standards for their own behavior, in turn brings their new found independence more in line with your at-home teachings.
There...
Picking a Summer Camp in Minnesota
What do you know about Minnesota? Chances are you imagine cows, and the beautiful capitol of St. Paul. Yet, north of all that is the Northwoods of Minnesota which boarders with Canada. Filled with all its natural beauty. In the sky you can see eagles all around swooping down to catch a fish in a nearby lake or stream. If your quiet you might just hear a loon or a wolf in the background. This is what America looked like 100 years ago. Until you experience the simple beauty, you can't begin to...
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