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Why Send A Kid To Summer Camp?

By: Lonnie Lorenz Home | Home-and-Family | Babies-Toddlers


If you went to overnight camp as a child you can always tell a favorite story you can still remember in exact detail, down to the smell of that pine forest. Memories of summer camp are lifelong reminders of lessons with a lifetime?s worth of value with friends you haven't forgotten. Learn how to select a Summer Camp Find a Summer Camp

Few places on earth can provide a child with opportunities daily fun the way a camps can. Fun would be reason enough to go to overnight camp, but summer camp offers much more to enrich a child's life, whether it?s a Traditional Camp or Nature camp or a nonspecific resident camp.Summer Camp

Children?s camps are healthy places to be. Physical exercise is a natural part of a healthy child?s life, and camp is a natural provider of constant, safe exercise. The overnight camper?s intellect and imagination get plenty of exercise as well.

Summer camp offers a wonderful template for kids to learn the skills of social interaction in a more creative and independent way than school settings allow. Still gently guided by adult role models called counselors, campers get an chance to apply what they have been taught at home in a independent world.

Given our current economy sleep away camps are easily the most affordable summer care choice available. Yet, summer camp is so much more than childcare. It's a place and time for kids to gain independence, enhance their skills, make new friends and above all have fun.

Campers grow into themselves, setting newer and higher standards for their own behavior. The kids camp daily context is activities that encourage perseverance, listening skills, teamwork, and the ability to recognize similarities and appreciate differences in each individual. Self discovery becomes a lifelong habit.

Summer camp is a new chance to rediscover a growing life. Sleep-away camp is an opportunity for each child to come to a new place and try new things and make new friends. Everyone starts as an equal with a chance to just be oneself around others. Summer camp is so much more than the most affordable childcare choice parents can make?

Swift Nature Camp is one of the few camps nationwide that offers a beginning camp experience only for the first time camper.



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About the authors: Jeff and Lonnie Lorenz are the directors of Swift Nature Camp, a non-competitive, traditional coed overnight summer camp. Boys and Girls Ages 6-15 enjoy nature, animals & science along with traditional camping activities. To learn more click Children's Summer Camp or our special First Time Camper program. Click here to submit article.

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