https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-wastewater-treatment-primer

Over the years, we’ve peeked at some of the components to wastewater treatment, but we’ve never really taken the process apart to help explain what is really happening and what the objectives are....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-whatever-letter

Camp Hancock’s director Bill Young and I conceived the “Camp Whatever Letter,” originally written more than a decade ago, as a response to our observations and frustrations about the changing culture...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/kamaji-hats-thee

The camp lady of Chicago showed me photos of swank camps with luxurious cabins, electric tennis ball cannons, and soft-serve ice-cream machines. She talked up theatre and sports camps. She effused...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peg-march-2010

When we are confronted by significant challenges that leave us feeling uncomfortable and even angry, it is important to take a moment and pause. A moment of reflection can offer us the critical time...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/back-future-summer-camp-new-economy

A few years back I conducted a study with kids who had gone to summer camp for at least six or seven years. I asked them to talk about their...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/parents/camps-speak-international-language

There’s a passionate debate going on — whether men and women should share child-rearing responsibilities — even if it means the father sometimes stays at home. Native American, Nigerian, Kyrgyz,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/boy-boat-life-lessons-learned-camp

Ben was the boy in the boat. A gregarious go-getter whose journey through camp — and to adulthood — was inextricably linked to sailboats on the water. The lessons he learned at camp originated from,...

https://www.acacamps.org/la-diversi%C3%B3n-y-la-seguridad-los-campamentos-de-aca-establecen-las-normas

¿Por qué un campamento acreditado por ACA? La acreditación de ACA indica que el campamento de su hijo se preocupa lo suficiente como para someterse a una revisión minuciosa (de...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/convergence-collaborative-melodies-create-youth-development-success

The Beginnings of Youth Development The American Camp Association (ACA) is over 100 years old. In that context of age, youth development is a relatively young field of study. In 1998, the ACA...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/sustaining-lifelong-joy-camp-key-connector

In the dedication of my book, The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness, I wrote, "Summer is like childhood. It passes too fast. But if you're lucky, it gives you warm memories from which...