https://www.acacamps.org/resources/early-adolescence-ages-11-13

Developmental Milestones Increase vocabulary to 40,000 words (nearly double from ages 8-9) Choose friends based on common interests, rather than parent selection Begin the...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/middle-adolescence-age-14-16

Developmental Milestones Increase their hypothetical reasoning abilities Conduct increasing future planning Experience further sexual maturation and explore issues of...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/healthy-kids

Role Model Relationships: Making healthy human connections Health Begins with Youth: Get Your Kids Moving Now Camp...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/child-adolescent-development-articles-parents

The Boy in the Boat - Life Lessons Learned at Camp...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/nature-loves-nurture

In the spring of 2002, Psychologist Wallace Dixon published the results of a survey of 1,500 randomly selected, doctoral-level members of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). He had...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/roots-wings-how-attachment-temperament-shape-development

Oliver cried lustily. If he could have known that he was an orphan, left to the tender mercies of churchwardens and overseers, perhaps he would have cried the louder. — from Oliver Twist by Charles...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/out-mouths-babes-unlocking-mysteries-language-voice

My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words Of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the sound. Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet — by William Shakespeare BIG Questions Children learn...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/i-am-therefore-i-think

"Pooh," said Rabbit kindly, "you haven't any brain." "I know," said Pooh humbly. — from The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne Big Questions About 300 years before Winnie...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/do-i-do-circle-parenting-socialization

Big Questions Perhaps no question weighs more heavily on the minds of parents, teachers, and camp staff than "Will this child do what I ask?" Sadly, there is no magic formula for obedience. So,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/bouncing-back-moving-forward-transactional-models-risk-resiliency

Big Questions If someone told you that you had a "retrospective, unidirectional bias" and had contracted the "availability heuristic," you might think you need to visit a doctor right away....