Camps

Stop Your Sleepaway Camp Fears

Kids love the freedom and fun of overnight camps, but parents still worry about sending their kids off for the summer. Learn how to stop your sleepaway camp stress.

By Heidi Luedtke, PhD

Camps Add Summer Learning Programs

Kids' summer camps are putting academic literacy programs on the sun-and-fun schedule.

By Ellen Warren

The sports camp decision

How to choose a summer sports camp

By Terri Akman

Summer on the Spectrum

Philadelphia-area summer camps for kids on the autism spectrum

By Ellen Warren

Language camps: more than words

At select summer camps, children can explore a different culture while experiencing full immersion in a world language.

By Susan Stopper

Day camp or day care?

Summer day camps offer many of the advantages of day care as well as fun and active outdoor play.

By Ellen Warren

2013 Super Camp Fair Photos

Families sampled activities and gathered in-depth information at the MetroKids Super Camp Fair, Jan. 27, at the Conshohocken (PA) Marriott.

An arts camp for every child

Whatever your child's art interests -- acting, drawing, music, photography or another -- there's a summer program to match.

By Susan Stopper

Camps help kids build resilience

Under pressure to succeed academically, socially, in extracurricular activities and with social media, kids to be able to learn from mistakes.

By Ellen Warren

Rapid rewards: Kids gain skills after just 1 or 2 weeks at camp

The increasingly popular trend of shorter essions and more registration options has not diminished summer camp's benefits.

By Ellen Warren