Plan for a Stimulating Learning Experience for Your Kids This Summer

There is something magical about a summer camp experience. Camps give kids a chance to practice being the best they can be. They experience a place designed to create happy memories and encourage self-expression. They have the opportunity to climb towers, ride horses, shoot an arrow, and even experience the success of winning the big game! It stays with them forever. Kids will learn from a full range of emotions and human experiences including homesickness, friendship, disagreements, team work, frustrations, jubilant success, and more.

The world needs the next generation to be more tolerant of each other’s views, ideology, and beliefs. As part of the Summer Camp in Los Gatos children are exposed to the best of human character. Carefully selected role models are dedicated to showing your child how to have fun, learn from others, and make friends in person rather than online. Camp allows kids to meet people from all over the world, every race, culture, and socioeconomic level.

As parents, our hopes and jobs are to ready our kids to be productive, independent, and capable people — to prepare them to thrive without us. Camp offers a way for kids to start developing those skills in the best possible environment. We burst with pride watching him growing into a happy, independent, tolerant, open, confident, and capable person.

Time without pressure. For many children, school means pressure. Pressure to achieve. Pressure to do things “on time.” Pressure to learn at someone else’s pace. Some children seem to be wired to meet these challenges, while others are not. At camp, they have a chance to feel good about who they are and what they can do.

Time that rewards less common learning styles. There are many kids who access the world through sight and sound or through the use of their bodies. These are the kids who love to get messy, who prefer the language of movement and art to the language of words, kids who need to “take the time it takes” to do something rather than fit the activity into someone else’s schedule. Camp makes room for their nonlinear approach to learning and life.

Time to experiment with new skills. Good camps encourage kids to try new things. Away from the expectations of school friends and in the freer atmosphere of summer, many kids will try out a ropes course, a new art form, or a new sport. More likely, summer camp gives the child the chance to develop a new skill so that he or she can come home and impress friends and family.

Time to try out new friendships. Camp offers a whole new pool of people to choose from. Unhampered by worries about old friends, jealousies or the expectations of the school group, a child is free to choose anyone he or she pleases. Your child had the experience of getting close to someone very different from her or his usual buddies.

Time to take time. A good camp has downtime built into the schedule. This is time for rest, for reflection, for quiet activities, for long walks and talks. For many kids, the school year is chock full of structured activities that leave them with virtually no time to think. Camp provides time to take stock, to think, to evaluate the year past and to make promises to themselves for the year ahead.