Backstage Notes: We Love Ya, Annie!

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Get a behind-the-scenes look at the productions of private schools and summer programs.

The Lodge was transformed into a performance space for our production of Annie. The show was a phenomenal success, and enjoyed by all in attendance.After the final performance on Friday, as students helped us to tidy up backstage, many words of praise and thanks were exchanged; however, the most common sentiment expressed by the students was a simple, “That was fun!” I couldn’t have summed it up better myself.

Oprah Inspires a Dream, a Song and a ‘Gift of Chance’

Christl Dabu
Oprah Winfrey's Live Your Best Life Weekend

With the Oprah Winfrey talk show’s farewell season underway and the launch of her network OWN on Jan. 1, singer Marcos Brinson is among the countless people inspired by Winfrey’s dedication to helping children, women and families live their best lives.

How Can Our Kids Have So Much, and Be So Bored?

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Why are kids bored?

Think for a moment, when was the last time your kids played sports without it being organized by some governmental unit? You see we always organize and make the rules. Kids need to get together and form their own rules and pick their own teams just like we did when we were their age. But they have grown up without the ability or imagination to form fun time groups themselves.

Our Kids News Roundup: Nov. 1 – Nov. 5

Carly Maga
Our Kids's weekly summary of parent, school, and camp news you should know!

Our Kids provides the education, camp, and parenting headlines you should know. A new study, like many other before it, finds that preschoolers are overdosing on screen time,  but this time the results are even more disturbing. Another study in Spain finds that the country’s adolescents in private schools cope better to stress by using [...]

Group Lessons Make Beautiful Music

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Make music education a group effort.

There have been many articles lately about the importance of piano lessons and boosting a child’s IQ but we should not forget how much fun it is to learn to play an instrument.  It also provides children with a sense of accomplishment.  The development of a healthy self-esteem and self-confidence should encourage any parent to [...]

CampNation Facebook Contest Winner – Spencer Blake

Travis Allison
Musician Spencer Blake, winner of the CampNation video contest on Facebook

Facebook Contest – CampNation Music Video Winner We are excited to announce the winner of our CampNation Video contest: Spencer Blake with his original song “Take it Slow”.  Spencer grew up at Cairn (see Cairn’s listing on camps.ca) and this summer he is working as their head of Adventure Programming. Spencer has won our grand prize: a Toshiba laptop and [...]

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