8 Reasons Why You Should Enroll Your Child in a Summer Camp

There are many benefits and profound positive effects to a Summer Camp.

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6 June 2017

| Last updated on 2 January 2018

8 Reasons Why You Should Enroll Your Child in a Summer Camp

If you’ve taken your child to camp, you’re not surprised to hear about the benefits of summer camp. Experiencing life at camp yourself as a child, you know the profound positive effects that still matter to you as an adult, and you also know that you want the same thing for your own kids.

But if you didn’t go to camp as a child, you may not realise just how good the experience is for children. You may not know why so many parents are committed to sending their kids to camp. So while we have talked about most of these before, here is a list of the most important reasons to send your kids to Milestones summer camp.

At camp, children:

8. Spend their day being physically active – As children spend so much time these days in front of TV or I-pad and mostly sitting down, camp provides a wonderful opportunity to move.

7. Experience success and become more confident – Camp helps children build self-confidence and self-esteem by removing the kind of academic, athletic and social competition that shapes their lives at school. With its non-competitive activities and diverse opportunities to succeed, camp life is a real boost for young people. There’s accomplishment every day. Camp teaches kids that they can.

6. Unplug from technology – When kids take a break from TV, cell phones they rediscover their creative powers and engage the real world— real people, real activities, and real emotions. Camp is real!

5. Develop life-long skills – Camp provides the right instruction, equipment and facilities for kids to enhance their artistic and sport talents. 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.

4. 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.

3. 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. At camp we play!

2. Learn social skills – Coming to camp means joining a close-knit community where everyone must agree to cooperate and respect each other. Camp builds teamwork.

1. Make true friends – Camp is the place where kids make their very best friends. Free from the social expectations pressuring them at school, camp encourages kids to relax and make friends easily. All the fun at camp draws everyone together— singing, laughing, talking, playing, doing almost everything together. Everyday, camp creates friendships.