https://www.acacamps.org/resources/middle-childhood-ages-8-10

Developmental Milestones Spend increasing amount of time with peers Form friendships with others in school and other activities Begin to formulate identity independently of...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/early-adolescence-ages-11-13

Developmental Milestones Increase vocabulary to 40,000 words (nearly double from ages 8-9) Choose friends based on common interests, rather than parent selection Begin the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/nature-loves-nurture

In the spring of 2002, Psychologist Wallace Dixon published the results of a survey of 1,500 randomly selected, doctoral-level members of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). He had...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/roots-wings-how-attachment-temperament-shape-development

Oliver cried lustily. If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of churchwardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. — from Oliver Twist by Charles...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/out-mouths-babes-unlocking-mysteries-language-voice

My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words Of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound. Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet — by William Shakespeare BIG Questions Children learn...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/i-am-therefore-i-think

"Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly. — from The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne Big Questions About 300 years before Winnie...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/bouncing-back-moving-forward-transactional-models-risk-resiliency

Big Questions If someone told you that you had a "retrospective, unidirectional bias" and had contracted the "availability heuristic," you might think you need to visit a doctor right away....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camps-help-make-children-resilient

When Jacob arrived at his city’s day camp for his third season, the camp director was determined to avoid the problems Jacob was experiencing at school. Now eleven years old, Jacob had grown into a...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/fighting-free-play

It seems a tug-of-war is going on in Canada. On one side are those who, in the name of safety and reducing liability, want to mandate the risk right out of childhood activities and free play time. On...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/pedagogically-speaking-part-1-how-schools-talk-about-what-camps-do

Clinging to the position that camp is different and unique will isolate us unless we can speak intelligently about how camp is an essential complement to what young people do for the other ten or 11...