tidote to everything I mentioned in the be- learning specific skills that will look good THE BENEFITS OF CAMP
ginning: over protection to over indulgence on your transcript. I’m sorry to see camps Bugs, dirt, extremes of temperature, dirty
to too much focus on academics. Not to getting more structured, more technically fingernails, being with kids [that are dif-
mention lack of respect for adults. At camp, focused and less the final outpost of child- ferent] from your home town, church,
because counsellors are not the kids’ hood. I want kids to play with all five school or synagogue, learning all sorts of
mommy and daddy, they won’t caudle senses in three dimension, instead of on a things to do, sitting in a field when you
them like they are used to being caudled. computer screen or in a structured class are feeling down, having your own re-
during or after school. sources to take care of the natural fluctu-
PSYCHOLOGICAL MATURITY ations in moods that kids have, hiding
Parents have to understand that social GETTING OVER THE FEAR from the prying eyes of nervous, devoted
and emotional development and self-re- I like camp folk to talk to parents about parents, and doing sneaky things and not
liance and self-regulation — examples what their fears are and why these fears getting caught. I think the best avenue to
of psychological maturity — are what are misplaced. I like to call this “preven- spiritual elevation in life is singing in na-
predicts adult success much more than tative mental health” for camp parents. ture, and at camp you can do this. •
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