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Camping Magazine
Research You Can Use: Summer Camp as a Place Apart
November 1, 2018
Research is more than surveys, interviews, and statistics — it can be a valuable tool to use when designing camp programs, training staff, or in your marketing efforts. But it's...
How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck? And Would You Know How to Decipher the Tag on the Lumber?
November 1, 2018
A decade ago, the United States market voluntarily abandoned the long-standing wood preservative and treatment method where an arsenic and copper compound was forced into the...
A Sample of Issues from Camp 2018
November 1, 2018
I spend time with camp professionals from May to August consulting with directors on the more perplexing and complicated issues they face with campers, staff, or parents during the...
Why I Hate Parenting Books
November 1, 2018
The mother standing next to me was not my own, which was fine. I was seven when I visited the Washington Monument for the first time, with both my parents. The next time, at 43, I...
World-Class Career Development
November 1, 2018
Imagine a fun college summer working at camp, where, as with any other internship, young adults gain knowledge, skills, and hands-on experience while making important connections...
2018 November/December Camping Magazine
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When Competition Is Just Right
November 1, 2018
"I don't want my child to take part in this contest you've dreamed up," a visiting parent told me on the grounds of my camp. "I don't want him to lose. He's not good at this." She...
Inspired Learning through Deep Nature Play
November 1, 2018
An Interview with Joseph Bharat Cornell Joseph Bharat Cornell is a world-renowned naturalist, educator, and storyteller. He founded the nature awareness program Sharing Nature...
Internship, Test Prep — or Camp? Summer Planning amid the Noise and Haste
November 1, 2018
"Go placidly amid the noise and haste" marks the beginning of a 1927 prose poem, "Desiderata," by American writer Max Ehrmann. A copy of this well-known piece, the Latin...
Making Mental Health Matter at Camp
November 1, 2018
In 1987, I reported to camp for my first full summer as a counselor. The campers were to arrive only a few days later, but I was confident that I would have no trouble as a staff...
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