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About Your Child |
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Ages 4 to 6
Early Childhood — The Explorers
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Ages 4 to 6 |
Ages 7 to 9 |
Ages 10 to 12 |
Ages 13 to 15 |
Ages 16 on & Work at camp
Their world
- Sponges for information, questioning and curious
- Learning to reason and understand their environment
- More aware of the feelings, actions and motivations of others
- Focusing more on how peers see them
- Stronger physically, more co-ordinated and agile (conquering the monkey bars, learning how to throw and catch a ball)
- Learning to read and write
Their concerns
- Separation from parents
- Specific fears—of the dark, of the unknown
- Crave familiar food, toys, activities
What camp offers
- Children learn to take part in more structured activities, such as crafts or field trips
- Learning to take turns, to share and to consider the feelings of others
- Encourages trust in adults other than parents
- Increases confidence and comfort level about being apart from parents
- Teaches children to take care of themselves, such as keeping track of the contents of a backpack
- Some overnight camps offer short, partial-week stays as a gentle first experience for their youngest campers
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