From the time school is out in June until school begins again in the fall there is a significant period of time when children can learn and further develop their value system. This time may be more influential to their lives than any period As part of a non-academic, positive learning experience, camps provide a safe environment where children can develop self-confidence, social skills, and good work habits while still allowing them to be `kids` having fun. They have been viewed as an ideal environment for learning and self-exploration. They expose your kids to the opportunity to engage their imagination.
- To Experience And Explore:`A summer camp is a great way to gain experience. It is an opportunity for kids to learn that they can endure outside the home without their parents. There are many exciting places and fun activities to discover in a camp, where one can get lost in the fun and adventure. It`s a great idea to give your kids an experience of being on their own. It takes them out of their comfort zones and offers them fun, excitement and lessons that last for a life time.
- To Boost Self-Confidence and Instill Leadership Skills:`It can help your child in developing important life skills. It provides a safe environment, where children gain self-confidence as they learn new skills. When kids are at camp, they don`t have their parents there to support or help them. They have to put themselves out there. It teaches them important leadership skills and makes them feel empowered. It`s a time of discovery and self-improvement, the outcomes of which stay with them ` forever!
- To Get Healthy:`With all the fun games and physical activities, going to a camp can be a great way to get exercise. Playing is a powerful form of learning that contributes mightily to a child`s healthy physical, emotional, social, and intellectual development.
- To Make New Friends and Learn Social Skills:`Camp encourages kids to relax and make friends. All the camp fun draws everyone together. They seem to be particularly good at helping children make friends and explore adventurous activities. In this tech-savvy world, camps cut back on distractions. That means, those prone to sitting and texting or playing video games are forced to get up and get moving
- To Develop Intimacy with Nature:`Kids today spend much less time outdoors. The summer camp reconnects kids with nature. An outdoor experience will enrich your kids` perception of the world. Direct contact with nature stimulates all of a child`s senses and also facilitates learning. Camps are perfect settings for making children aware of nature. It also helps in developing nature based outdoor skills. There is not much scope to walk around in natural environs, so at camps, the very act of constantly being in the midst of nature, makes you fit on a day-to-day basis.
- Gain resiliency ` The kind of encouragement and nurture kids receive at camp makes it a great environment to endure setbacks, try new (and thereby maybe a little frightening) things, and see that improvement comes when you give something another try. Camp helps conquer fears.
- Unplug from technology ` When kids take a break from TV, cell phones, and the Internet, they rediscover their creative powers and engage the real world` real people, real activities, and real emotions. They realize, there`s always plenty to do. Camp is real!
- Develop life-long skills ` Camps provide the right instruction, equipment and facilities for kids to enhance their sports abilities, their artistic talents, and their adventure skills. The sheer variety of activities offered at camp, makes it easy for kids to discover and develop what they like to do. Camp expands every child`s abilities.
- Grow more independent ` Camp is the perfect place for kids to practice making decisions for themselves without parents and teachers guiding every move. Managing their daily choices in the safe, caring environment of camp, children welcome this as a freedom to blossom in new directions. Camp helps kids develop who they are.
- Have free time for unstructured play ` Free from the overly-structured, overly-scheduled routines of home and school, life at camp gives children much needed free time to just play. Camp is a slice of carefree living where kids can relax, laugh, and be silly all day long.
- Learn social skills ` Coming to camp means joining a close-knit community where everyone must agree to cooperate and respect each other. When they live in a cabin with others, kids share chores, resolve disagreements, and see firsthand the importance of sincere communication. Camp builds teamwork.