| Summer Camps & Why So Many Kids Go To Them |
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Every summer, thousands of kids go off to summer camp. There are all kinds of camps these days from traditional camps to specific sports camps to even more specific activity camps, and for many kids camping is a place where some of their most important development happens. Summer camps are a measure of personal growth and each summer a child can measure his or hers before heading back to a new school year. It is such a successful and enriching experience that its too bad is isnt available on some level to all children. The camping experience offers so many opportunities to develop new skills - whether they are sports oriented, nature driven or just social interactions where they are more comfortable than in school. Since most camps revolve around nature, its natural that kids also get a good dose of the open air environment and this is especially important if they live the rest of the year in urban areas. It also teaches a sense of teamwork through sports and just through the community of a camp where each person has responsibilities that others depend on. Add the element of increasing social skills and the awareness of them, and summer camps become all important. Schools are more limited. The hours are shorter, theres less interaction and for shorter periods of time, and kids learn more about democratic living in a camp than they ever do in school. Statistics say that kids who go to camp stay in college longer and also transfer around less than kids with no camp experience. Summer camps seem to prepare children for dealing with life after family life and beginning to live on their own, and thats makes one good argument for six weeks every summer! |
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