https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/last-dance

It's late in the evening. My feet are tired. Music is reverberating in my ears. We've been dancing and mixing all night. Tonight is an incredible celebration, truly a hallmark event. This may be...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-movin-right-along

Whether the current program has your camp bursting at the seams and you're considering expanding, or you're ready to look for another property to host your organization, there comes a time when you...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/gumption-grown-here-how-adventure-camps-help-adults-youth-toughen

There was a day when it was thought that being an American and having "gumption" went hand in hand. As Dennis R. Rader writes in Learning Redefined: Changing the Images that Guide the Process...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-lessons-summer-camp

Bobby arrived later than all the other campers, a habit I would soon come to expect. He waited awkwardly in the rec hall doorway. He clutched a black plastic bag of clothing and toiletries, and in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-parents-camp-health-services-creating-sane-partnership

Camp professionals have long talked about forming a partnership with parents. First articulated by Bob Ditter, the concept has moved deeply into various policies, practices, materials, and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/recipe-success-planting-seeds-change

Change is often difficult for the thousands of camps and conference centers across the country to embrace, partly because many camps are steeped in tradition, and partly because of fear. The camp...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/reflections-back-basics

Few people would disagree that we now live in a world of consumer capitalism. Our open lands and lakefronts in New England are slowly disappearing to development. Many young children are over...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/circle-support-restorative-justice-summer-camp

It may very well be the case that matters of discipline, often grounded in interpersonal conflict, consume a disproportionate amount of time for counselors at summer camp. Or at least it seems that...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/fight-flight-or-form-use-brain-research-connect-campers

We are lucky to be at camp, in the modern world, and not living in a jungle where each new thing might kill us. The fight or flight response comes from ancient times when a person encountered a...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/parachute-pants-pokemon-ipods-understanding-your-campers-various-ages-stages

Rewind to the time in your life when you were seven, ten, or thirteen (or any other desired childhood age). Who was your best friend at that age? What style clothing did you wear? What did you like...