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Stephen Gray Wallace, MS Ed
Stephen Gray Wallace, MS Ed
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: How Summer Camps Help Emerging Adults
Fri, 02/09/2024 - 09:05
Growing up requires many important developmental stages and steps one must master. Camp can help.
A Time to Talk: Communicating with Campers
May 1, 2023
When I was a young, first-year staff member at camp, two orientation speakers left me with distinct lessons that have carried me through forty more years in camping. The first was...
How to Run a Teen Program at a Summer Camp Wary of Teenagers
January 3, 2023
Some camps welcome teens, but others do not — perhaps because they find normative adolescent behaviors intolerable. Why should we care? Because the summer camp experience is...
Lost Boys: Finding Their Way at Summer Camp
November 1, 2022
Are boys in crisis? Popular literature (Raising Cain, Lost Boys, Boys and Sex) and theater (Dear Evan Hansen) seem to suggest so. Terms such as “boy code” and “toxic masculinity”...
How to Make the World a Better Place: Taking Advantage of the Opportunities at Summer Camp
June 24, 2022
This article discusses why it is important to challenge campers to take advantage of their opportunities so they invariably make new friends, try new activities, and become valued members of a camp community.
Lean In: A User’s Guide to Relational Camping
May 1, 2022
In her best-selling book Lean In, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg challenged women in the workforce to fight a lack of self-confidence in order to forge fulfilling and rewarding...
More Than a Village: Why Summer Camps Are Key to Raising Kids Right
January 1, 2022
A well-known (believed to be an African) proverb advises us, “It takes a village to raise a child” (Goldberg, 2016). By way of explanation, the Exchange Family Center (EFC) offers...
Rethinking Risk: How to Build Resiliency and Reward
November 1, 2021
So much of a camp director’s time is oriented toward risk reduction. From hiring lifeguards to teaching CPR, the number-one priority is “keeping kids safe,” followed by fun and...
Scars
March 9, 2021
Mike, Jim, Sarah, Eric, Jake, Marina, Michael, Hunter, Pierce . . . the names roll off my tongue too readily, capturing the enormity of loss too often. In the life paradigm that is...
A Different Kind of Mentor
May 3, 2020
Mentors come in all types, shapes, and sizes. There are loud ones, quiet ones; short ones, tall ones; young ones, old ones. The common denominator is “one” — as in “Be one!” While...
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