https://www.acacamps.org/blog/want-independent-confident-resilient-kid-camp-can-help

While it’s easy to think of ways to teach our kids to do laundry or solve math problems, finding a way to instill important character traits isn’t as simple. The way we model traits we want our...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/releases-related-issues-revisited

Introduction Camp managers and camp families appear to understand the significance of an agreement in which the camp seeks protection from certain claims. These agreements are encountered...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camper-career-unique-path-importance-becoming-summer-camp-professional

Many of us who grew up going to summer camp feel like it was the place we could most be ourselves. If we had the option, we would make it our second (or first) home. You probably have a story...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/whos-charge

 A reality of today’s society is that many campers have parents who are separated, divorced or otherwise in a relationship that creates uncertainty for the camp regarding who is in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/after-camp-contacts-between-campers-staff-problem-whose

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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/high-anxiety-are-smartphones-upping-angst-ante

An Interview with Nancy Cheever, PhD Nancy Cheever, PhD, is a professor and chairperson in the Communications Department at California State University, Dominguez Hills, and the 2018...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-manito-wish-century-old-philosophy-life

Richard, a camper in the 1950s, recently returned to Camp Manito-wish YMCA where he spent five summers as a youth. The camp recently commemorated its 100th summer with a celebration for the ages, and...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/camp-lessons-use-when-transitioning-back-school

One Sunday night this past July, I was with my wife eating dinner when the all-boys sleepaway camp my eight-year-old son Myles was attending for the very first time in his life emailed a few photos....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/book-radical-candor

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-legends-love-camp-country

A Personal Perspective by Jay Jacobs My world is like a collision of two parallel universes — my camp world and my political world. It’s like people see me as Superman and Clark Kent at...