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I can only afford to send my child to camp for one week each summer. Is it still worth sending her? |
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Yes. Whether you are sending your child to camp for one day, one week or the whole summer, they will benefit from the experience, and likely remember it for their entire life. Summer camp as a way of completing your child's education. Read through some of these short reflections about how children have benefited from the camp experience, no matter what length of time. |
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by: Samantha
It is learning wrapped in fun. And it is the kind of learning that has defined the Canadian growing-up experience for generations of youngsters. Of self-sufficiency, self-confidence and leadership. Of what makes character. Of what leads to success at school, at work, at play, in life.
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by: Carrie
I didn't attend a camp that was longer than 1 week until I was 13 years old. I still feel that camp has been the greatest positive influence on my life.
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by: Cherie Godin Hammond
Any time at camp is great. Check out YMCA or other agency camps - they have scholarships, mostly on a sliding scale for families of all incomes |
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by: Sara @ SCOPe
Absolutely - for proof check out http://camperssaythank.blogspot.com for letters from the kids who SCOPE send to camp for just 1 or 2 weeks. These kids only get to go to camp for that long and it impacts them for the rest of their lives!
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by: Ann Harvey Hope
Definitely. My kids have never gone for two weeks although I did as a child. It can get just too expensive and most camps I've seen send them home for the Sat night inbetween if they sign up for two weeks anyway. Some of the Girl Guide Camps have started adding in the overnight Sat option (so that parents actually get a full weekend off!) to make the full two weeks but it is still rare. The kids learn a lot, have a lot of fun and remember that 1 week as if it was much more. |
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by: Jim McHardy
While parents have long 'sensed' the validity and impact of a short duration camp experience there is now a growing body of research that verifies significant social behavioral change after as little as three days. Of course all we really had to do was to ask our children to know this is true.
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