How to help your child have a great experience at Camp Crosley YMCA (Part 3)
4/11/2011Summer at camp
is more than just a week away from home. At Camp Crosley, kids learn to
appreciate the outdoors, experience the friendships of other children
and young adults working as counselors, learn skills that enhance self
reliance, cooperate with others and understand a sense of life larger
than one's self. Hopefully, the acquisition and refinement of such
skills will contribute in positive and significant ways to the child's
adjustment and will carry over into his/her adult years. Camp Crosley
makes it easy for kids to have fun, relax and experience that
spontaneous joys of childhood. A summer at camp is often perceived by
children, parents, community leaders, clergy and social service agencies
as a respite from the strains of everyday family life and the pressures
and tensions of school.
How to help your child have a great experience at Camp Crosley...
- Have realistic expectations. Camp, like the rest of life, has high points and low ones. Not every moment will be filled with wonder and excitement. At times, your child will feel great while at other times he may feel unhappy or bored. And kids may not always get along well with each other. Solution: Try to maintain within yourself -- and encourage within your child -- a reasonable and realistic view of camp by mentioning "ups and downs''. Opportunities for problem solving, negotiating, developing greater self-awareness and increased sensitivity to the needs of others can help your child cope with successes and failures in everyday life. Resist sending your child off to camp feeling pressured to succeed.
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