Is It Important For My First Time Camper To Attend Camp With A Friend?
April 06, 2015
I have been a camp director for 20 years and this is one of the questions I am most frequently asked. Should my child go to camp alone? Should my chi...
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How Camp Teaches That Failure Can Lead to Success
March 26, 2015
I was driving my thirteen-year-old daughter, Virginia, in the car yesterday. For those of you who have children older than the Barney the Dinosaur ye...
How Camp Encourages Creative Learning
March 10, 2015
Here at camp we love to play and to have fun! Who doesn’t?! Creative play at camp helps campers learn social skills, problem solving, communication, a...
How To Choose a Great Summer Camp: Day Camps Vs. Resident Camps
January 22, 2015
In what feels like a lifetime ago, I was a camp counselor. It’s where most camp professionals start, and if you don’t fall in love with camp as a chil...
CNBC: Summer camp improves college admission odds""
December 01, 2014
More and more these days, families have seemingly countless opportunities and commitments each summer. Academic camps, sports preseasons, family trips...
Are summer campers more likely to succeed in college?
November 24, 2014
There is growing evidence to support the conjecture that overnight summer camp increases a child’s ability to thrive when they leave home to go to col...