https://www.acacamps.org/article/parents/parents-play-pivotal-role-keeping-teens-safe-during-summer-driving-season

William Shakespeare wrote, "Summer's lease hath all too short a date," apparently foreshadowing the all-too-soon approach of fall. But a short summer season is time enough still for even the most...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/parents/teens-camp-camp-teens

Camp Programs that Dare to be Different! When TIME magazine ran its cover feature on "Being 13 in America" in the summer of 2005, they wrote about the complex pressures and surprisingly...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/parents/learning-life

Camp is an experience that strengthens one’s life journey; it enables, reinforces, and facilitates one’s ability to learn for life. It is a process of risks and mistakes that are meaningful and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/parents/what-it-about-camp-friendships

I see it at every major life event — weddings, graduations, baptisms, bar mitzvahs, any time family and friends gather to celebrate a significant milestone — that huge smile and even bigger hug when...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/parents/why-cant-school-be-more-camp

Yesterday, my fourth grade son came home from school downcast. It’s his third week at a new school, and I had encouraged him to find a friend or two to invite over to swim. He had asked two boys for...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/parents/parents-thoughts-sleep-away-camp-bunk-selection

Right now, many parents are contacting camp directors across the country trying to make sure their son or daughter gets into the “right bunk.” The only question is, what is the “right bunk?” What...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/parents/what-i-did-my-summer-vacation

If you were looking for me in the middle of August, you wouldn’t have had a banana’s chance at a gorilla convention of finding me. I was incommunicado, far beyond any cell phone reception or Internet...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/el-gran-debate-de-la-educaci%C3%B3n

La reforma educativa acapara las noticias en estos momentos. El esfuerzo para llevar a cabo un cambio a nivel nacional hacia un curso escolar que dure todo el año gana fuerza, y los discursos al...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/prop%C3%B3sito-de-a%C3%B1o-nuevo-%C2%A1qu%C3%A9-este-sea-el-a%C3%B1o-m%C3%A1s-sano-de-sus-hijos

¡Por un Feliz Año Nuevo! Si los niños vinieran con instrucciones, podríamos ser padres perfectos. Desgraciadamente, no hay instrucciones, y por lo tanto, tampoco padres perfectos. Intentamos hacer...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/precauciones-para-pasarla-bien-al-sol-en-el-campamento

Los niños deben venir al campamento equipados con una loción para el sol con un índice de protección mínimo de 30 (SPF 30). Muchas actividades en el campamento se llevan a cabo en la sombra para...