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June 27, 2019 – Bus Lists
Here are the June 27 Bus Lists!
ContinueSaying Goodbye to Your Campers….
A Summer Camp Lesson: Good-bye, and Go Away, Thank You Very Much Dropping a kid off for camp can test a parent’s resolve. But standing back to let a child develop autonomy is one of the most important things a parent can do. by JESSICA LAHEY in The Atlantic Three years ago, when he was […]
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In our last post we talked about how seeing our kids’ anxiety triggers an anxious response in us that can be maladaptive for them if we follow through with our gut reaction: removing the trigger, thereby preventing our kids from developing the coping skills to deal with their situation. Sending a child away to overnight […]
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I’ve been working on letting go of my own feelings of despair when either of my beloved offspring is not ok. This is so hard. Appallingly challenging. My urgent need to fix it is even more compelling.Whether these feelings are built into parental DNA, or just the product of our generation of parents for whom […]
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June 28 Bus Lists
Here are the June 28 Bus Lists!
ContinueA Summer Camp Lesson: Good-bye, and Go Away, Thank You Very Much
Dropping a kid off for camp can test a parent’s resolve. But standing back to let a child develop autonomy is one of the most important things a parent can do. by JESSICA LAHEY in The Atlantic Three years ago, when he was eleven, my son Ben set down a very specific parental code of […]
ContinueAnxiety, the new epidemic
My camp team has been going to the biggest camp directors conference in the world, the American Camp Association Tri-State Conference, for years. 4000 camp directors, four days, about 20 workshops on offer in every time slot, all day every day. Many learning options for us. But not as many these days. Why? Because they’re […]
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JULY 27 – BUS LISTS
Here are the bus lists! July 27 – Bus Lists
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Here are the bus lists! July 25 – Bus Lists
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June 29 – Bus lists
Here are the bus lists! June 29 – Bus lists So sorry they were late, we have had lots of rain in the last 24 hours and our internet has been spotty!
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