https://www.acacamps.org/blog/brain-food-back-school-mondays-nutrition-expert-offers-tips

This blog from ACA’s Educational Ally The Monday Campaigns is designed to help you keep those healthy camp habits alive at the start of school! Some of these tips your child might have...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/10-2

Guest post by Marla Coleman 10-for-2. It often feels like we live 10 months for 2 months! Campers. Staff. Directors. (And dare we say parents, too?). Sadly, those precious...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/singing-campfires

What is something that everyone who has ever gone to camp has done that is virtually impossible to re-create in any other setting? Campfires, of course! Our camp is 76 summers old and there are some...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/longing-home

Guest post by Lydia Pettis When I was eight years old I spent four weeks at a summer camp for girls in West Virginia. My mother grew up in this camp, and I imagine she hoped I would grow to...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/10-reasons-why-businesses-should-hire-former-camp-counselors

Guest post by Anne Archer Yetsko When I speak with friends who work in other industries, I always tell them that if you have an applicant who has been a camp counselor and has a positive...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/helping-children-invent-future

Guest post by Scott Brody American fifteen year olds are lagging behind students from other nations in math and science, according to the results of an...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/5-life-lessons-learned-sleep-away-camp

Guest blog by Stacey Ebert For sleep-away campers, the end of June brought endless smiles. School closed for two whole months and our second family greeted us with open arms. Mornings were...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/7-reasons-why-your-middle-schooler-needs-camp

Guest blog by Anne Archer Yetsko When I Googled the phrase “middle school,” two of the top hits were “Middle school survival” and “Middle school: the worst...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/farm-campfire-experience

Guest post by Diana K. Rice, RD As a registered dietitian and staff member of The Kids Cook Monday, I’ve seen firsthand how efforts to...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/summer-camp-social-supplement-modern-society

By Peg Smith & Andy Pritikin What an amazing world we live in, with more information and connections at our fingertips than we could ever imagine. This brave new world has come with a...