How Camps Build Leadership
How summer camps build leadership skills through games and activities they can't get at home or school
Author: Ellen Warren
Choosing the Right Summer Camp
How to determine which summer camp best fits your child's needs.
Camp to Home Communication
How to stay in touch with your camper and stay in line with camp phone and email policies
The Patchwork Camp Solution
With so many camp options available, how do parents choose to send their kids to a single camp or several shorter sessions this summer?
Camp Food & Special Diets
Camp menus adapt to serve kids with food allergies, gluten sensitivities and special dietary needs
Should Kids Attend Camp with Friends?
When it comes to camp signups, is it better to send your kids solo or with friends?
The Benefits of Summer Camp
The intangible, lifelong benefits of the summer camp experience include confidence, being a team player and friendship.
Camps Add Summer Learning Programs
Kids' summer camps are putting academic literacy programs on the sun-and-fun schedule.
Summer on the Spectrum
Philadelphia-area summer camps for kids with special needs
Day camp or day care?
Summer day camps offer many of the advantages of day care as well as fun and active outdoor play.
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.
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.
There's a great camp for your child
Involving your kids in finding the right summer camp can be a fun family project. Here's how to go about it.
Why Kids Say They Love Camp
Friends, challenges, science experiments, acceptance, the food, the freedom to be themselves — that's why kids love camp!
7 Camp Activities To Try at Home
Families and friends can capture the summer camp spirit by trying these fun and popular games and experiences.
Camps Nourish Healthy Habits
Exercise, nutritious meals and outdoor fun are just the start of positive practices.
Outdoor Fun is In Camps' Nature
Camp connects kids to the natural world and helps them balance over-structured lives.
Family Camps Are Fun for Everyone
Attending camp as a family offers an affordable mini-vacation that strengthens relationships in a safe environment.
Lights, Camera, Action!
Film and TV camps give kids friends, skills and exposure to careers.
Camp Counselors Learn to Care
From bug bites to bullying, training covers many situations.
A Summer World for Preschoolers
For many families, day camp is the best kind of day care, offering children the opportunity to play outside in a safe and supervised environment.
Academic Camps: A Smart Choice
Remember when kids looked forward to a summer free from anything that seemed like school? That has changed for many kids as today’s academic camps put a positive spin on “summer school.” Private schools and local colleges are good places…
Camps Without Borders
Today's youth travel and adventure camps offer styles ranging from rustic to resort. Many blend adventure, service and cultural immersion.
It's camp fair time!
Delaware Valley parents can find a camp fair on almost every weekend from January through March, including the MetroKids Super Camp Fair, Sun., Jan. 27, 2013 in Conshohocken, PA.
How To Be a Good Camp Parent
Do’s and don’ts for a successful summer at day or overnight camp
Sports Camps Score Big Goals
Mix life skill-building with athletic attitude and you’ve got the ingredients for a great sports summer camp experience.
Summer Camps Build Character
At summer camp kids learn values, such as the YMCAs' focus on caring, honesty, respect and responsibility.
Ready for Overnight Camp?
Camp directors say there's no magic age, but younger kids often adjust better than teen first-time campers.
Camps Go Green
Summer camps, where every day is Earth Day, help children develop environmental awareness.
The Camp Melting Pot
At summer camp, kids and cultures from diverse backgrounds learn cooperation and respect.
How To Find the Right Camp
This process will help parents to identify camps that match their child’s and family’s needs.
Counselor Jobs Build Useful Skills
Summer camps continue to seek teens for counselor jobs, which build life skills, foster autonomy and teach responsibility.
Camps Address Kids' Emotional Needs
Specialized camps offer fun and support to kids with emotional challenges, including grief, military service and HIV/AIDS.
