Camping Magazine articles from March 2007

Camping Magazine archives from March 2007

Are we getting more young people to camp?
March 1, 2007... All of us who work in camps believe in the value of the camp experience and wish that every child could spend at least part of his or her summer at camp. The American Camp Association (ACA) believes so strongly in the positive benefits of the...

Building a comprehensive camp communications strategy: consider what parents really think.
March 1, 2007... Placing the receiver back on the hook, the camp director Mark looked at the girls' head counselor Sherry across from him. He smiled, "I just hung up with Mrs. Smith. Even though we discussed not bringing cell phones to camp, she said her...

Camps and spirituality.
March 1, 2007... Finally the campers are quiet and the flashlights are stowed under the benches. The dark stillness is broken by the chirp of crickets, honking frogs in the nearby pond, and the single call of an owl. Overhead, stars sparkle framed by the boughs...

Increasing your effectiveness in hiring camp staff ... how to hire the best and avoid the rest!
March 1, 2007... While the people who sold you the land for your camp may have preached "location, location, location" as the secret to your success, once you are settled in and running your camp, we would argue that the real secret to your success is "your...

From Peg.(summer camps)
March 1, 2007... I am haunted. I have shared with a number of you that several months ago, Willis Bright, ACA's program officer from the Lilly Endowment Inc., who funded the lion's share of ACA's research, told me that my voice was too soft. He meant ACA's...

Life at camp: a place to share.
March 1, 2007... "Camp is like life," my counselor told me the summer I was homesick. "The more you get involved, the more you'll get out of it." So what did I do? I got involved. And sure enough, I got my share of sunburns and mosquito bites, along...

Disaster response and recovery: is your camp prepared? Risk management.
March 1, 2007... Fortunately the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season didn't meet the forecasters' predictions. The mild weather pattern was a welcome relief to those at risk following two devastating hurricane seasons in 2004 and 2005. Weather and changing weather...

Managing diversity: organizational change part two: managing diversity--third in a series of five articles.
March 1, 2007... The previous article in this series on managing diversity and the camp industry discussed the primary challenge facing any diversification effort is organizational change. The second article in this series described the pivotal role of a leader...

Spring has sprung! Building principles.
March 1, 2007... Depending on where you are and when this issue arrives at your desk, the snow may be thinning or even gone altogether, and it's time to get property back into shape for the coming season of guests. Before you go through the same old routine...

Hooking up, losing out? The new culture of teen sex ... and how to talk to your campers about it: healthy teens--third in a series of three articles.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Reports of a fourteen-year-old middle school girl performing oral sex on a sixteen-year-old high school boy differed only slightly from scores of similar tales making headlines across the country. The setting (a school bus) and the audience...

The role of youth involvement: building camps that care about kids--fourth in a series of four articles.
March 1, 2007... "The fact that campers are happy and active does not necessarily mean that the camp is achieving important objectives. Children often have superficial objectives which make them happy. We all want our campers to be happy and reasonably active,...