Find the Perfect Camp
10 Questions to Ask Before
Choosing Your Child’s Summer Activity

As the daylight hours begin to stretch into early evening and the calendar pages head toward June, parents start thinking about how to best fill their child’s summer days. The process of picking the best camp experience for your child doesn’t have to be difficult.

A Parent’s Camp Survival Guide
Insider Tips from Veteran Camp Moms

Before They Go to Camp

1.  Print out a variety of address labels on your computer:

• with their camp address (to give out to friends at school)
• with their home address and addresses of close relatives/friends to use when sending letters from camp

All Boys, All Girls or
All Mixed up?
Pros and Cons of Coed &
Single Sex Camps

Let’s play ball - girls against ..... the girls? That’s the way it goes at single sex summer camps - at least the ones for girls only. As parents and children choose a summer camp, that’s one more decision to make: do you want a coed camp or a single sex camp?

Getting Ready to Go
What to Pack & NOT to Pack

It’s the night before camp and the big suitcase or trunk lies open on the floor ready for two weeks’ (or more) worth of stuff to ensure your camper remains happy. What goes? What stays?

Adventures in Camping
Teens Get the Opportunity to Test
Their Limits

Aaaaah. Summer camp. Climbing glaciers, hiking up volcanoes, biking hundreds of miles, kayaking, backpacking and camping. Wait. Whatever happened to paddling a canoe on a calm lake, dining halls and cabins with bunk beds?

What Horses Teach
Kids About Life

They may not be counselor of the week or be at their best telling a favorite camp story, but the horses who live year-round at Hoofbeat Ridge Camp in Mazomanie, Wisconsin, have captured more hearts and taught hundreds of campers the life lessons that last.

High Tech Camps
Computers and Much, Much More!

Robots. Web design. Game creation. Film making. Movie production. It’s just another day at summer camp. Yes, some camps are entering the computer age and offering computer-related activities as part of the program.

Writing Dos & Don’ts

Writing your child at camp is a must. In fact, you should write your first letter before you even pack the car – that way your camper has a letter waiting while she’s unpacking in her cabin. What you say – and don’t say – in those letters is important too

Camp Costs - the Bottom Line

Parents know that camp is an experience that will last a lifetime. However,they may worry about the cost, especially if there is more than one camp-aged child in the house.