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Safe and sound on Tepee Lake!
The first day of camp could not have gone more smoothly. The weather was perfect (not too hot, not too cold), all luggage made its way to its owners, and everyone enjoyed the traditional first night pasta dinner topped off with baker Arturo’s famous chocolate brownies. Evening activities were icebreaker games for all of the […]
ContinueDo our graduating high schoolers need a victory lap?
Remember the old joke about the guy who finishes last in his med school class. What do people call him? Doctor! Tell that one to your Grade 11 or 12 child. Cause they weren’t listening a few weeks ago when Steven Del Duca (who??) suggested that because high school students have suffered so many academic […]
ContinueCamp 2023 Dates Are Here!
Now that it’s June, we’re already thinking ahead to next summer… and we know some families need to plan ahead, so we’re excited to announce our 2023 session dates: First Session: June 29 – July 25, 2023 (2 week session ends July 12) Second Session: July 27 – August 21, 2023 (2 week session ends […]
ContinueFreelance COVID parenting spring 2022
It’s so wonderful to know for sure – and finally – that old women get ignored. By pretty much everybody. I like knowing for two reasons: One, I’m not paranoid, it’s real. Two, you hear interesting things when you’re being ignored. I was sauntering through the Village the other day and decided on a bagel […]
ContinueDIY therapy for your child’s anxiety…. cause the therapists have too long a waitlist
Remember sourdough? Early in the pandemic, legions of previously non-bakers started baking their own bread, cultivating sourdough starter with religious fervour – a DIY revelation. And now it’s time for DIY Act Two. Post pandemic, as legions of experts – and our own experience – tell us, way too many kids are suffering from anxiety. […]
ContinueTeenage Life after COVID…..
When COVID switches from pandemic to endemic. When it’s like the flu. Normal will feel like a walk in the Garden of Eden. But what about the teenagers? What will happen to them after COVID? Are they going to need to bust out big time, to play their Get-Out-of-Jail card like it’s the last card […]
ContinuePost-COVID screen issues for kids
I am an addict. It has been 7 minutes since I last checked my email and texts. I no longer get pings when texts come in because the noise was driving my husband crazy. So now I have to check for them. Sometimes I tell myself not to check for emails and texts, or the […]
ContinueBe Careful!
If I had a toonie for every time I said “Be Careful!” to my kids, it could add up to a long weekend in Paris. And I haven’t stopped. With two adult offspring who both have their own kids and have so far neither set fires nor crashed cars, I still harass them to be […]
ContinueWhat I learned about kids at camp this past summer
BY JOANNE KATES, CAMP DIRECTOR It never pays off to under estimate a child. That was my first… and second… and third lesson about kids this past summer. They taught me that they’re more flexible, open to change and resourceful than we ever knew. My first tutorial on that subject was Day One of camp. […]
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Where Did the Summer Go?
The past week at camp has been a whirlwind of activity; it feels like we took all of the energy that’s been pent up inside for the past 20 months and used it to really make the most out of our last days here. What I believe really happened though is that at this point […]
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