Benefits of Summer Camp

No technology!

Being away at summer camp provides your children the opportunity to be one with nature. Being away at summer camp also gives kids the independence they need. With cell phones turned off, no service post nearby and, in most cases, limited access to the internet, your children can really experience life unplugged. Not to mention your data bills will probably slim down!

Camp builds social skills.

Most camps are divided by age groups. With a little planned grouping, your children with be able to bond and build everlasting friendships with other kids their own age. Camps have daily programing that gives children the opportunity to team build, make friends, learn new things and create wonderful memories.

Camp builds confidence.

Camp gives your child the opportunity to be an independent individual. Camp teaches youngsters they can do anything, and the experience builds a sense of solidarity that school simply does not. The pressure to get the best grade and succeed enough to get the highest paying job is not part of camp, so truly, the ability to succeed comes naturally. Kids don’t have to be successes at camp to be successful at camp.

 Camp imparts lifelong skills.

At its longest, the duration of your child’s camp adventure is 90 days, 12 weeks, three months or one season. Let’s give this a little perspective. In one year there are 365 days, 52 weeks and four seasons. A regular school year pulls, at most, three of those seasons toward core in-class learning techniques. Three of those seasons your child is learning, or at least being taught, the same exact information as the child sitting in the next chair over. In this small amount of time devoted to summer camp, your kids can learn lifelong skills that really set them apart from the average. The reality of summer camp is that it can impart skills kids wouldn’t otherwise learn—and they’ll have fun actually experiencing it.

Jessica Samuel lives in Kansas City and is a freelance writer and photographer.