https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/girls-camp-fostering-community-causes-confidence

I spent the first 12 years of my life in a sleepy, rural town in the northeast corner of Connecticut. With both of my parents working full-time, my summer mornings began near dawn as I filled up my...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/capture-magic-middle-school-campers

When the recent "Great Recession" hit in 2008, it changed the attitudes and enrollment behaviors of many camps' clientele. But around that same time came another defining moment that has changed how...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/sos-youth-risk-seven-survival-skills-summer-camp

Our Nation is at risk. At least that was the opening salvo of an April 1983 report from the National Commission on Excellence in Education. The document, which covered everything from prosperity...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/preparing-kids-real-real-world

There's a summer camp where kids do whatever they want, with whomever they want, all day long, as long as they aren't physically endangering anyone or putting anyone down. There are no bed times....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leading-tomorrow-september

The fall season, for our association, marks a time similar to the first days of staff training. It is a time of bonding when veteran camp leaders are excited to share their stories of the season and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/education-global-citizenship-role-summer-camp

What is global citizenship and why promote another seemingly bookish concept into a summer camp program? There are good reasons: positive youth development, influx of multicultural young people...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/what-more-can-we-do-help-homesick-campers-homesickness-anxious-withdrawal-motivations-avoid-new

When Rudy ran away in the Ivan Reitman movie Meatballs he helped enshrine homesickness as one of the hallmarks of the camp experience alongside morning announcements, pranks,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/healthy-camps-update-whats-focus-phase-three

With eight years of the Healthy Camps initiative completed, the program recently launched its third phase of inquiry. The focus for 2015–2017 is the mental, emotional, and social health (MESH)...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-arcadia-century-family-values-adaptable-change

I grew up at Camp Arcadia. I was so excited to finally be a real camper in 1942. My mother, Juliette Meylan Henderson, called Mum Mum by everyone, was directing the camp with her father, Dr. George...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/my-perspective

I have spent many interesting summers at my town summer day camp in Weymouth, Massachusetts, and I am excited to be part of that experience again. I met some very good friends at camp and some people...