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While having fun learning interesting cartwheels and handstands during gymnastics activities at camp, your child also benefits in development areas that will help them become a better person and student. To know more about how your child can benefit from gymnastic activities at camp, read on. Healthy Lifestyle The number of obese children in the… Read more »
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Unplugging at Summer Camp
If your child is like most, they “tweet” their way through breakfast, text at lunch, “like” and “comment” all day long, Snap Chat through dinner, post selfies to Instagram around bedtime and wake up and do it all again the next day. No wonder they stay up to late and want to sleep until noon,… Read more »
Leap of Faith
She wasn’t sure what was going to happen first: either her heart was going to beat itself right out of her chest, or the butterflies, no, eagles that were soaring around in her stomach were going to somehow find their way out. Nervous didn’t even begin to explain how she was feeling as she looked… Read more »
Staying Healthy at Summer Camp
When you combine the ease and affordability of fast food with the ability to literally record days worth of TV to be accessed at any time, your result is kids who are eating junk while watching junk. They are spending more time in front of a screen than they are playing outside. Sometimes the only… Read more »
Looking Forward to Summer Camp
As we head into the colder winter months, children are settled into their school routines and deep into schoolwork, homework and after school schedules. This is also the time of year for children to look forward to the carefree summer months ahead at sleepaway camp. For Americas Finest Summer Camps’ campers – and camp staff… Read more »
The Anatomy of S’mores
At Americas Finest Summer Camps, everyone looks forward to getting in on the action and making s’mores. But what is it about s’mores that gets us asking for – you guessed it – some more? The sticky, ooey, gooey, utterly delicious ingredients, that’s what! People say there is a National S’mores Day celebrated on August… Read more »
Home (Parentheses)
Parents: By now your pantries are empty, your laundry rooms are full, and your television remote controls are affixed to your children’s hands. The campers are home, and they’re riding a camp high. They have a lot to tell you. Get ready to hear a lot of stories about camp (over and over), be let… Read more »
A Whole New World
At one of America’s Finest Summer Camps, a first year camper, upon stepping off the bus on arrival day for the first time, immediately exclaimed, “I’ve been waiting for this moment my whole life!” The awe of that young camper at that moment was very reminiscent of the scene in The Little Mermaid in which… Read more »
A Week at Summer Camp
Do you want to know everything that can happen within a week at summer camp. Then this guest blog from Camp Laurel reflecting on everything that has happened within the first week of camp just might blow your mind… In just a week, how can it be? We’ve settled into our cabins. Reacquainted with old… Read more »
A Camper Reflects on the Day before Camp Begins
Over the past several days, all of America’s Summer Camps welcomed their campers and the summer is officially underway. For our guest blog this week, however, we wanted to share a blog submitted by one of the campers at Camp Starlight, who reflected on what campers feel the day before camp. I am nearing the… Read more »