Tag: benefits of summer camp
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Summer Camp Benefits parents
How Sending Your Kids to Swift Nature Camp Benefits You as a Parent As the director of Swift Nature Camp for over 30 years, I've seen that overnight summer camp is more than just child care in the summer. There…
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Why Do Parents Send Their Kids to Summer Camp
Why Do Parents Send Their Kids to Summer Camp As the director of Swift Nature Camp, I've noticed a recent decline in social adjustment among children, and it's one of the reasons why parents choose to send their kids to…
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Sumer Camp Gives A Competitive Advantage
Recently, we came accross the below article in the Washington Post. We found it extremely informative because it highlights the what and the why parents send their children to overnight summer camp. Something we have been wondering for years, because…
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NATURE SUMMER CAMPS HAVE A PURPOSE
What did you learn from Nature? “Dad, how come it was more fun when you were a kid?” A question that many of us may have been asked by our children. Maybe it is the stories we tell the games…
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Summer Camps Make Kids Resilient
Summer Camps Make Kids Resilient I recently spoke to 300 camp directors about how to make children more resilient to life stress. Summer camps, we discovered, are perfect places to help children optimize their psycho-social development. After all, summer camps…
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10 Benefits Why Summer Camp Is Good For Teens
Often when we speak with parents we get the qustion "Is my child to old for camp" We then tell the parents why camp is good for children at any age. Below I found this article that I think really…
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10 Reasons For Overnight Summer Camp
10 Reasons to Send Your Child to Overnight Summer Camp Camps are fun. But why are they important? In a world gone tech crazy, sometimes the great outdoors is just that: great. Here are 10 reasons why every child should…
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Can Summer Camp Return Society to Civility
Has America Fallen? I believe that we can all agree that in the past 3 years or so, our society has become less civil. We use more profanity in public. We are more polarised, it's We VS Them. Life has…
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Why Overnight Camp?
By Morris Cohen | @morriscohenlcsw Twitter Facebook Email More Thinkstock/diego_cervo The Social and Emotional Long-Term Benefits of Summer Camp NEW YORK CITY - Children spend up to 180 days in school, not counting weekend functions, school-sponsored extra-curricular activities and socializing…
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9 Reasons Overnight Summer Camp is Good For Kids
Now is the time to Commit! You have heard about all the benefits Overnight Summer Camp can provide a child. Still, it seems a strange concept to send your child away to Swift Nature Camp and in other people's care.…
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Building Resilience in Children
They say in America these days our kids are having less opportunities to be challenged in a positive way and therefore having a negative impact on them as adults. Please read below and see how camp can help supplement your…
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Testimonials
The 1st timer camp was good cause we were all the same.
Justin