To Camp or Not To Camp?
A Parent’s First Question

Ah, camp – what images do you conjure when you remember summer camp when you were a child? Roasting s’mores over a campfire, rolling out your sleeping bag in a cozy cabin, splashing in a lake, making new friends, and writing letters to your mom and dad?

Beyond Baseball
Explore Nontraditional Sports

Staying active is as important as ever today.  When thinking about what type of sports your child will play, sometimes it is easy to fall back on the same old sports offered at school. Your choices are most likely limited to three or four sports. But what if the “standard” team sports -baseball, football, soccer are not for your kids? 

Why Day Camp?

Children learn life skills that become habits of the heart.

A mother wrote to me about the family ski trip. Her son got to the top of a steep hill and started to panic. The mom said, “What would you do if you were at camp?” and he proceeded to engage himself in positive self-talk that was part of the camp culture: “It may take time, it may be hard; but stick with it, and you’ll be fine!”

Great News About Homesickness

That’s right . . . there’s great news about homesickness! For starters, you should know that:

A Summer Filled with Art
A Chance for Budding Artists to Bloom

Shannon Merolla is sending her 5-year-old daughter, Juliette, to camp this summer. Arts camp. Shannon explains, “She has done the traditional 8:30-12:00 day camp. She enjoyed that, but they did very little music or dance and only one art project a day.” It just so happens that those are the things that little Juliette loves best: the arts.

Kids On Stage
Matching Your Young Actor
to the Perfect Theatre Experience

Let’s pretend!” Who doesn’t recall many happy childhood days spent using your imagination to make believe? Remember when the tree in your yard became the wicked witch’s house from which only you could rescue the hostages?

A Camp for Every Kid
Specialty Camps Go Beyond the Basics

Sitting around the campfire, roasting marshmallows, hiking through the woods—all are images evoked by the word “camp.” At a traditional summer camp, campers enjoy the gamut of summer experiences, from swimming and hiking to crafts and camp shows.

Camp Tips
Plan Ahead to Pack Smart

Okay - you and the kids have found just the right camp and you feel like you can cross “Summer Plans” off the to-do list.

Not so fast!

Five Reasons Why Your Child Needs Camp

There’s no doubt that summer camp is fun. Kids get to sing silly songs, play funny games, swim in lakes, and tell spooky stories around a campfire. This is the image of camp that has been captured and memorialized in films, books, and television programs for the past fifty years.