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Camping Magazine
Handling the Sensitive Issues Campers Bring to You
May 1, 2015
When You've Earned Your Campers' Trust, You May Get More Than You Bargained For You are out on an overnight hiking trip, sitting around the campfire with your campers and co...
Camper Enrollment Continued Upward Trend in 2014
March 1, 2015
Economically speaking, 2014 felt a little better across the nation. The Dow was up a bit, the jobs reports were somewhat positive, and people seemed to be spending money. Early in...
Risk Management: Parents and Camp Health Services - Creating a Sane Partnership
July 1, 2014
Camp professionals have long talked about forming a partnership with parents. First articulated by Bob Ditter, the concept has moved deeply into various policies, practices...
A Place to Share: Lessons from Summer Camp
July 1, 2014
Bobby arrived later than all the other campers, a habit I would soon come to expect. He waited awkwardly in the rec hall doorway. He clutched a black plastic bag of clothing and...
Gumption Grown Here: How Adventure Camps Help Adults and Youth to Toughen
July 1, 2014
There was a day when it was thought that being an American and having "gumption" went hand in hand. As Dennis R. Rader writes in Learning Redefined: Changing the Images that Guide...
Always Thank the Bus Driver...And Other Words of Wisdom for All the Campers I'll Never Meet
May 1, 2011
On the occasion of my fiftieth birthday, I contemplated the unthinkable: retirement. Not that I am anywhere near ready to conclude my career, but I now know what before I refused...
Summer Camps in Popular Culture
May 1, 2011
"Hey, you must be the short, depressed kid we ordered. Glad you made it." — Meatballs, 1979 (Reitman) I highly doubt that camping pioneers such as Ernest Balch or Frederick Gunn...
Camp Counseling in the Twenty-First Century: Connecting the Disconnected
Tue, 09/29/2015 - 12:18
Throughout the year, Camping Magazine publishes articles for full-time camp professionals. Once a year, it is written specifically for you — the camp staff who are on the front...
Ways to Make Camp Memorable
Tue, 09/29/2015 - 12:18
Building a warm rapport with the campers in your group as well as the coworkers you live and work with day to day is the single most important way to positively impact the camp...
Aquatic Safety for Staff
May 1, 2011
It's a bright, sunny, warm day and you and your friends have the next twenty-four hours off. Not far from camp, about an hour away, is a remote yet popular swimming area where you...
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