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Teens and Vaping
When you think it’s finally gotten easier, you’ve got it right, parenting throws another curve. It’s always like that. Hard. Just when we thought the nicotine monster was licked, here comes Juul. And not only does it come, but e-cigarettes are believed to be causing serious, sometimes fatal, lung diseases. And we thought we […]
ContinueThe October School Blues
October is where the rubber hits the road. Academically speaking. September is all shiny and new and hopeful – new books, clean crisp notebooks with no mistakes or missteps… or missing homework. New school clothes and new friends. But now the shine is off and we’re singing the midterm scholastic blues. Like all blues songs, […]
ContinueGirls and Perfectionism
It was so easy raising a perfectionist daughter. She was always the child who wanted to please. To please parents, friends, sports coaches…. teachers. Perhaps teachers most of all. For school is the great locus of encouragement of girls’ tendencies towards perfectionism. While we fret over our sons’ apparent lack of motivation for school, moms […]
ContinueBack to School Wisdom
We often hear from parents that the kids we send home from camp are more polite, respectful, independent, and helpful around the house than the kids they sent us a month or 2 ago, but sadly, these effects seem to be short-lived and by December they seem to be back to their old ways. THIS […]
ContinueEnding with a Bang
Our last day of programming for summer 2019 was a blast. It was beautiful to watch the lake full of capable campers captaining sailboats, soloing canoes, rolling kayaks, and rail riding on windsurfers. It struck me again how much our campers have grown, both in their physical skills and emotionally in their weeks at camp. […]
ContinueBrent is Back!!! Whitney is back!!
We are over the moon with joy and pride! Both the boys and girls Whitney trips got back to camp early this afternoon. The boys Brent trip paddled into camp at 5:30 pm and the girls Brent trip paddled into camp at 6:25 pm. Everyone is safe and sound…and overjoyed…. and proud of their incredible […]
ContinueMy heart is full of joy – the kind only camp can give
As the dark lifted this morning just before 6, a huge shout went out. And then another. It was the Senior Boys and Senior Girls shouting to wish their friends farewell and winds at their backs, as our hardy marathon canoe trippers set off, at first light, to paddle the marathon trips Brent and Whitney. […]
ContinueUnited We Stand
This evening showed what camp is really all about: that at the end of the day it doesn’t matter who won or lost because the bonds we made getting through challenges will last forever. After a fierce day of competition on the lake and on the shore (a morning of Land and Sea that had […]
ContinueAt camp we wind up, not down
I don’t even know where to start tonight… the past 24 hours of camp have been so full of special, inspiring events and moments it feels like it’s been a week since breakfast! Mini Camp continued to be a huge success, thanks to the wonderful ambassadors our campers were, and I had little people coming […]
ContinueMini Camp!
What do you call too much cuteness at one camp? Mini Camp of course! Today we had 60(!) kids between the ages of 6 and 10 arrive to get a taste of Arowhon, and it’s been a breeze for me as our campers are doing a better job selling camp than I ever could. We […]
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