Summer is here and parents are facing a challenge again: how to occupy children during this holiday season and make it special.
It’s time to rest and have fun, but in the meantime wasting valuable time at the age when child’s brain is in it’s most active learning phase doesn’t seem to be the best idea.
Summer camps provide a kind of solution to this problem that children and parents love equally.
New way of thinking
Children love summer camp because it’s a new environment they can explore, kind of a gateway to the new world. It’s a possibility to experience something new, or rather old but in a new light. Camp’s different and somewhat looser approach to learning process gives attendees a certain degree of freedom they are not used to in usual academic atmosphere.
Summer camp is a perfect environment for children to step out of their comfort zone, accept and overcome new challenges and grow bigger within just one summer season.
Art and music camps give kids a precious opportunity to let their creativity flow and make actual use of it every single day in various settings, be it solving problems or just having fun. Children learn a completely new set of skills or master old ones. It’s the best place to take up a hobby that might grow into a profession later on.
Discipline
Camps are known for their discipline and summer camps are no exception. They make children more organized and teach them the importance of teamwork. Children learn how to start out as complete strangers and overcome first hellos. This experience teaches kids a lot about trust, social responsibility and making compromises, qualities so valuable in future personal as well as professional life.
Confidence
Summer camps have seen probably more failures and victories than any other place. It’s an unwritten rule of a summer camp that one’s gonna fail at least at something. Children stumble, fall and get back up. They learn physical resilience as well as mental resistance. Throughout summer camp experience they become more confident and independent.
Friendship
The best thing about attending a summer camp is definitely meeting new friends from all the different backgrounds. Kids befriend kids who they otherwise wouldn’t even have met because of cultural, geographical, social or other differences. And having a mutual interest – be it making music or art – adds even more to it. Summer camp can be a great place to get over dissimilarities and to make up for the mutual love for a bass guitar. This environment lets children practice social skills, helps them realise that people are the same no matter where they come from and makes them more tolerant and attentive in general. Making great memories to last life long is a big bonus too!