Moderator: Gregg Parker
Owner/Director - Camp Waziyatah
Gregg Parker is the owner and director or Camp Waziyatah, 130 acres of forestal beauty and vast lake nestled in the beautiful Maine woods. Highly trained and skilled counselors and directors help ...
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Gregg Parker is the owner and director or Camp Waziyatah, 130 acres of forestal beauty and vast lake nestled in the beautiful Maine woods. Highly trained and skilled counselors and directors help Wazi campers learn skills, develop positive peer relationships, and enjoy a sense of community and personal growth. Camp Waziyatah offers a wide variety of activities for kids ages 7 to 17, and their programming is based on kids' choices. Camp Waziyatah promotes strong core values with a great tradition and tons of fun to create an experience that lasts a lifetime. hide
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Why Summer Camp for your Child? So Many Reasons, and One or Two You Can't Ignore
When I discuss camp with parents, many don't know why a sleep-away summer camp is so valuable for kids. Some suggest that their children have their own summer camp at home, meaning they go to a lake house or have lots of fun stuff to do. That's great for their kids, but they are missing the essential reasons for sleep-away summer camp -- reasons that have to do with the child's development.
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Kids and Guns: A Few Things that will Surprise You about the Sport of Riflery
In my experience most parents have no problem at all with the sport of riflery, which is a long time summer camp tradition. However, some may wonder about the logic in teaching such a sport in a world that attempts to promote non-violence to children. While gun violence is obviously a serious issue in our world today, camp riflery promotes just the type of skills -- safety, discipline, respect for others and self-control, which help to keep kids safe, both in and out of the camp environment.
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Homesickness at Camp: The Do's and Don'ts
Homesickness is a natural worry for parents and kids alike who are considering a sleep-away camp experience. While it may be scary to imagine your children being away from home, and while it may scare them too, with a little preparation there are many ways to understand, alleviate, and overcome homesickness.
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Summer Camp 101 Part 2: Programming
Any camp you consider should have excellent programming. Programming means all the things that camp plans for the kids including activities, night events, trips, etc. Camps run their programming based on several different types of systems. Some use "cabin" programming, where each cabin attends activities together. While it does promote cabin unity, in my opinion it's much too much time with the same small group of people, rather than the entire camp community. Meeting new friends from all over the world, from different age groups, and from different backgrounds is one of the key ingredients in camp. We foster diversity and understanding, and hanging out with the same eight kids doesn't do much of either.
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Summer can be a time of magic and fantasy in our children's lives. Schools are closed, backpacks are put away, and all anxieties related to homework assignments and school projects are paused for a few months. But what happens when your family's only summer plans are for you to work full-time and for your children to stay home and watch TV for eight weeks? Behold the wonders of summer camp! Summer camps are a great way for kids to be supervised and entertained all summer, not to mention all the benefits of socializing with their peers, visiting new places, and developing new skills and talents through sports, arts and crafts, and other activities. As the owner and director of a summer camp, Gregg Parker understands the positive impacts that summer camp can have on kids. He shares his knowledge about the world of camps, here on The Knowledge Nests.
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