Posted on 10. Apr, 2014 by KB in Posts Since many of us will be sending our children off to either day camp or overnight camps in a few months, I thought I would share my own experience of “letting go” when my twin boys embarked on their first 2 week sleep away camp last summer. Overnight camp…

Sending children to a residential, or day camp, builds resilience Published on February 5, 2012 by Michael Ungar, Ph.D. in Nurturing Resilience I recently spoke to 300 camp directors about how to make children more resilient to life stress. Summer camps, we discovered, are perfect places to help children optimize their psychosocial development. After all, summer camps are places where children…