Lazy summer days, fun songs, popsicles and friends – summer camp is a place to make memories. My kids have been going to summer day camp in my town and they love it.
The camp counselors are teenagers so as you can imagine, they are full of energy and amazing spirit! The teens at my kids’ camp have cool nicknames like Koolaid and Flash. The boys have developed uch a fondness for them – and because many of them return year after year to work, the kids have really formed a special bond with them.
Swimming, running through the sprinkler, fun games and silly activities – now that beats hearing “I’m bored” every 10 minutes at home, now doesn’t it?!?
I love the songs that they learned at camp, songs that I remember when I was a kid like this one:
Swimming, swimming, in my swimming pool,
When days are hot when days are cool
In my swimming pool!
Front stroke, side stroke, fancy diving too!
Oh don’t you wish you never had anything else to do? But mmm, mmmm, in my swimming pool…
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14 Comments
Awe… Sprinklers how fun are those!
I loved summer camp and this past summer my middle two kids got to experience it for the first time too!
My favourite camp memory was the polar bear dip. It was the way you got clean and holy cow it was cold in the morning, but oh so fun! And of course we all had Ivory soap because it floats LOL.
I loved arts camp at Harbourfront!
I wish I had gone to camp! We always camped as a family, I was never sent on my own. But I have signed my son up for summer camps and would love to send him to overnight camp when he’s older. I loved watching him have fun at camp – he tried so many new things, he loved and bonded with the teen/early 20s counsellors and it was so great to see him expanding his horizons. He learned a lot, got a little braver, and did nothing but talk about it all evening when he got home.
It is so great that some children are going to be going to camp because of this program. Camp is a vital part of independance and growth
I’d absolutely love to be a kid again. Great experience and a wonderful way to jump start your child’s confidence and social skills. Camp was a wonderful experience for me.
Great to see more kids will be heading to camp through this program.
I attended a YMCA kids camp once, arranged through my school by a teacher who believed in giving kids the camp experience. It was probably the best week of my childhood!
This is such a worthwhile cause. I hope you are able to help send lots of kids to camp. I loved it when I was young!
Debbie 🙂
I loved the cheesy campfire skits and the bunkbeds and the rumours there was a ghost in the woods. And the canteen. And and and….
I’m totally biased when it comes to the summer camp thing. My summers from the age of 5 (all the way to 26) were spent at Summer Camp. I went to a variety of different camps and in the last three years of my camp career, I was the Resident/Family Camp Director at a YMCA Camp in the USA.
Camp completely changed my life and totally made me who I am today. If you’re a parent and thinking of sending your kid to camp, I strongly encourage you to do so. I encourage you to tell them to have a great time and that you’ll see them again in a week or two and let them play and grow and have fun.
Camps are a wonderful community where kids can unplug, connect with the outdoors and make new friends – lifelong friends that they will have forever. Camp teaches kids how to challenge themselves, overcome their challenges and try new things. Camp teaches kids how to make friends and how to contribute.
If you’re a parent and worried about the cost, there are LOTS of scholarship opportunities available that can help offset the cost. We “true believers” in Camp do everything we can to ensure that each and every kid has a the chance to go. It’s amazing.
I think camp experiences are so great. I didn’t go to summer camp but I did go to camps through my school, and I learned a lot. Every kid should get to go.
I never got to go to summer camp but I did go on a week long school camping trip (years ago). I’ll never forget building a fire, on my own, and lighting it without a match …. yes, I rubbed two sticks together until I got a fire started!!
I went to sleep away camp twice when I was a kid – both were different but really rich experiences. I had a great time, met new people had learned some new things, not to mention responsibility.