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The Value of Camp: What a tech-free summer teaches kids

The Value of Camp: What a tech-free summer teaches kids

Update: 2024-07-04
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Color War. Underwear on the outside of your clothes. Sailing badges. Friendship bracelets. It is difficult to overstate how attached some people get to their sleepaway camp experiences - they don't explain, they proselytize. And right now, camp is having a moment in our popular culture as we debate what Jon Haidt has deemed the “phone-based childhood.” Camp is one of the last screen-free zones for kids, and that’s both exciting and, as a parent, a little scary.

Today on ParentData, we're joined by Steve Baskin, a career camp director and incoming head of the American Camping Association, to talk about all things summer camp.  We discuss resilience, the value of free play, the need for phone-free time, whether or not your kids will actually brush their teeth (they will!) and why homesickness might actually be a good thing. 

Special thanks to Falcon Camp in Carrollton, Ohio for lending their voices to this episode.

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The Value of Camp: What a tech-free summer teaches kids

The Value of Camp: What a tech-free summer teaches kids

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