Cabins, Canoes and Campfires

Is It Time Your Child Discovered the Joys of Overnight Camp?

By Martha Wegner

Imagine my surprise when my little 7-year-old girl announced, “I’m going to camp this summer!” When I assured her that I had already registered her for her favorite day camp, she was quick to correct me

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Camp's Secret Weapon

Emotional Intelligence & Your Child

By Posie Taylor

Why consider summer camp for your child? Perhaps you hope to raise another Venus Williams or Michael Phelps. Maybe you are desperate for an alternative to a summer of day care, chauffeuring, and video games.

ABCs of Day Camp

26 Points, Topics & Tips to Consider
Before Choosing a Summer Camp

By Claire Yezbak Fadden

The school year is more than half way through and many students are focusing on summer. Weeks of lazy days, no homework and sleeping in. Parents, on the other hand, don’t want to see their sons and daughters lose momentum for learning and waste away weeks from June to early September. How can these two worlds come together? They meet through the wonder of summer camp.

Dance the Summer Away

Kids Find Their Groove at Summer Dance Camp

By Barbara Roy

Remember that first charming moment when your child responded to music by bobbing their heads or waving their hands or tapping their feet in (a semblance of) rhythm to the theme song from Sesame Street or a Baby Einstein DVD? The movement was probably accompanied by a smile of pure joy. It’s a fact that from birth, human brains are programmed to move to music. The urge to dance is in the soul of a person.

Spirituality Comes to Camp

Faith Based Camps Shed a Different Light

By Teresa Nicodemus

A ceremony called First Word starts the morning off at Camp Crosley YMCA. Campers from age seven to seventeen gather around the flagpole to learn about the YMCA-wide character values: Caring, Honesty, Respect, and Responsibility. Vibrant colors attach to each value: caring is red, honesty is blue, respect is gold, and responsibility is green. As a brilliant red flag is raised, campers are reminded it’s caring day.