BENEFITS OF SUMMER CAMP

1. Develops Lifelong Skills

 During summer camp, children share in a variety of group conditioning. For illustration, while sharing in a sport like a volleyball or bowling, a child learns how to work on a platoon, communicate with other children and break problems on their own. 

 

 A child will develop leadership chops, for case, by guiding a platoon of other children on a hike. Or, a child will develop stronger communication chops when dividing up chores in an late camp. Maybe a child will make important decision- making chops as they face challenges and overcome obstacles while trying new and instigative conditioning like ziplining or archery at Camp Lakewood. All these chops are important in the real world and are nurtured in summer camp. 

 

2. Promotes Independence

 At camp, a child gests time down from a parent. This independent time is important in helping children develop a sense of identity. Kiddies learn to come more tone-reliant as they explore their interests and discover their strengths and sins. They learn to trust their inner voice rather of depending on a parent or schoolteacher to tell them what to do. Independence is vital to getting a tone-sufficient grown-up. 

 

3. Makes Time for Play

 During the academy time, children are used to the routine of making it to academy on time, doing schoolwork and also going to bed. Some may engage in adulterous conditioning. Although still structured, summer camp is more relaxed than the academy routine and provides time and freedom for robotic play. 

 

 Free play is important to a child's development because they learn to develop creative thinking chops and explore their imagination through play. Playtime creates a safe place for children to express their studies and feelings, creating stronger and happier kiddies. They also learn to interact with the world around them, resolve conflicts, make negotiating chops and relieve stress. There are innumerous benefits to unshaped play, and it's a delightful way to make new musketeers. 

 

4. Teaches Teamwork

 No matter what your child's interests are, whether it be sports or trades and crafts, a camp program will engage them in conditioning that bear cooperation. Knowing how to work in a platoon is a useful skill for life. 

 

 Cooperation matters because it helps develop communication chops, emotional intelligence and leadership chops. 

  

5. Teaches Resiliency

 Resiliency is an essential life skill because to be flexible means to get up and push forward after an ineluctable reversal. 

 

 Camp provides the occasion for children to face numerous challenges and to exercise prostrating challenges. For illustration, they might not win their first soccer game, but they will learn that practice will make them a better player. Or, they might not be suitable to reach the top of the climbing palace at Camp Lakewood right down, but they will learn not to give up and to keep trying. Once they make it to the top, they will feel stronger and further flexible than they did ahead. 

 

  

6. Provides Fun Screen-Free Activities

 Kiddies and grown-ups are spending too important time in front of a screen. In total, children spend further than seven and a partial hours a day in front of a screen, whether that be on a mobile device, in front of a Television or at a computer playing a videotape game. Too important media time reduces time spent sleeping and reading, and may have a negative impact on performance in academy. 

 

 Camp helps children connect to the joy of life beyond the screen. In all our camp programs, children will have endless openings to engage their minds in ways they'll enjoy. 

 

 7. Encourages a Connection with Nature

 Speaking of time down from technology, kiddies also need nature in their lives. 

 

 Nature stimulates all the senses. When a child is outside, they get to see, touch, hear, smell and occasionally indeed taste nature. Sensitive development makes life richer, fuller and each- around more enjoyable. On the negative, too important time outdoors can dull the senses and deprive children of the simple pleasures in life. 

 

   

8. Fosters Growth

 One of the biggest benefits of summer camp is it takes children out of their comfort zone and pushes them to try new effects, as well as explore their formerly established interests. They will grow as they develop their chops doing their favorite conditioning, and they will develop new chops as they try conditioning they've noway tried ahead. 

 

9. Builds Self-Esteem

 At summer camp, children have the occasion to achieve, whether that be to catch a fish or to paint their first oil in a less competitive terrain than academy. Achievement is the main component in tone- regard. 

 

 Tone- regard is important for children and grown-ups because we make opinions in life grounded on how we see ourselves. We choose our careers, connections and make other important opinions heavily told by our tone- regard. Children learn tone- regard through taking action and earning results, and by contributing to their community. They learn to value themselves as a result of hard work and achievement. 

 

10. Supports Healthy Living

 Camp programs encourage healthy eating and physical exertion. At camp, kiddies have the occasion to share in all kinds of fun physical conditioning at any skill position. All children will have the occasion to share in physical exertion, no matter what camp they choose. 

 

 Only one in three children is physically active every day, according to theU.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Physical exertion is pivotal for heart health and maintaining a healthy weight, and it boosts confidence and helps manage stress. It's important to educate the necessity of physical exertion when children are youthful so they can carry exercise habits into majority.