https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-window-world

They were the first accents I ever heard that were different than mine. Australian, Dutch, English, Scottish, and heaps of others flew through the wooded, cabin-filled area at my Riverhead, New York...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-experience-every-child-eleanor-eells-award-winners-2013

Imagine a world where every child benefits from a camp experience . . . This is the goal of camps across the country as we continue to strive for ACA's 20/20 Vision — to serve 20 million children...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rejectology-helping-dorky-kids-fit-requires-understanding-social-rejection

You know them when you see them: the boys and girls who don’t mesh. Maybe their shorts are pulled up a tad too high; maybe they don’t know the rules to common games; maybe they blurt out dumb jokes...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-architectural-design-camps

Your regularly scheduled program (Rick Stryker) has been interrupted by his architect friend — me. Rick askedme to write an article for Camping Magazine from an architect's perspective....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-write-right-documenting-camp-incidents

Camp professionals generate many documents. While some documents aren’t retained very long, others are preserved because they contain critical information. It’s these critical records that deserve...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/trenches-working-effectively-internally-distracted-campers

During a mid-summer visit to a four-week, coed, residential camp, I spoke with the division leader (DL) of the youngest girls and learned about an eight-year-old camper whom I will call Eva. Eva had...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-water-water-everywhere-nor-any-drop-drink

In Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes, “Water, water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink . . . .” Though he’s...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-learning-teach-about-nature

My love of the outdoors, along with my scientific curiosity, can be traced back to my childhood adventures in the woods. The house I grew up in did not have air conditioning, making it unbearable to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/because-camp

Did you know that between 2001 and 2004, the American Camp Association (ACA) conducted national research with over 5,000 families from eighty ACA-accredited camps to see if we could “prove” what we...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/turning-camp-counselors-nature-specialists-pemi-nature-instruction-clinic

Introduction Richard Louv, in his book Last Child in the Woods, “links the absence of nature in the lives of today’s wired generation to some of the most disturbing childhood trends: the...