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.
