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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 […]
ContinueNotes from PreCamp 2018
All our staff are here and it’s been a fabulous PreCamp training thus far… One nugget: In a session with our full staff last night (about 165 staff) I asked them to go to one side of the room if they put their own needs first, and to the other side if they look first […]
ContinueWe know it seems early, but here are the 2019 camp dates
2019 Camp Dates: Camp starts June 27 1st session ends July 23 2nd session starts July 25 6 week session ends August 7 Camp ends August 19 1st session Junior Camp is June 27 – July 10 2nd session Junior Camp is July 25 – August 7 Mini Camp is Saturday August 10 – Sunday […]
ContinueParties at the Cottage? They have issues….
‘Tis the season. Of cocktails on the dock and long leisurely swims, of a good book, a Muskoka chair and a lazy afternoon, of the sun setting over the lake, of good friends loving the north country together. Such is cottage life. Until you introduce the factor of the older teenager/young (not-so-adult) adult who knows […]
ContinueAbout Camp Counsellors, in Our Kids by Joanne Kates
Age4 & under56789101112131415161718+ When I was a camp counsellor, my father, the camp director, used to say that counsellors were like elastic bands: You take a young person, who at home can’t remember to feed the cat, and you give them 10 children to look after. Suddenly – as if by magic – young people […]
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 […]
ContinueMore Risk = More Child Development
There’s a new movement to bring risk into children’s lives in Britain and Australia, and some European countries. Australia has introduced new standards for playground equipment, telling professionals to look at the benefits, not just the risks, of activities that might produce injuries. But not, heaven forbid, North America. According to Ellen Beate Hansen Sanseter, a […]
ContinueWords of advice for March break
I have a terrible memory of March break the year my daughter was 15. We – our family of four – are out for dinner in Spanish Town, Virgin Gorda, in the British Virgin Islands. Sounds like a hamburger in paradise, right? Just to set the scene, we’ve chartered a live-aboard sailboat for March break. […]
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