What You Need To Know About Overnight Summer Camps

Camps often focus on specialties that include:College credit courses are very popular at overnight
adventure, art, computer, dance, music, religion, horsesummer camps that typically offer students the
riding, sports, theatre, and many others. There areopportunity to explore a pre-college experience; usually,
camps with activities as traditional as model rocketrystudents entering grades 10 through 12 stay in college
and riflery, to those nontraditional as aviation,dormitories and attend summer classes run by the
computers, language studies, golf, martial arts orcollege faculty. Try to determine whether the director
community service. Many kid campers are enrolled inincorporates a similar philosophy to running the camp
summer camp by their parents early in the year, thusas you do in parenting your child or children. Non-profit
camps fill up quickly.camps often range from $1200 to $3000 for four
There are popular overnight summer camps in everyweeks and $2500 to $5000 for eight weeks.
state in the U.S. and every province in Canada; thereFour weeks at a good private overnight summer
are camps in the United Kingdom, Australia, Newcamp or sleepaway camp will cost anywhere from
Zealand and just about every country in the world.$3500 to $6500, and eight weeks will range from
Basically, if you can think of any subject of interest,$4000 to $7000. Some camps are often called
there's probably a camp that specializes in it. Beyondadventure camps - having a very specific theme or
the traditional sports - baseball, softball, basketball,interest; many of these programs emphasize skill
soccer, tennis, football, and more - there are camps fordevelopment and personal growth through the
outdoor enthusiasts that can offer horseback riding,adventures the offer. Camps should have at least a
hiking, camping, fishing, and even rappelling.40% to 60% return staff ratio, which shows that the
Overnight summer camp is also known as acamp is seen as a good place to spend a summer.
sleepaway camp when campers spend their nights atGet to know the camp director from an in-person visit
the camp; some camps do allow both daytime andto your home if possible, phone conversations, email or
overnight campers. There are four basic types ofother correspondence. Camp tuition can be expensive;
camps to choose from for your child: day programs,similar to travel insurance, there are now insurance
sleepaway or overnight summer camp, day programspolicies for families sending their children to overnight
with trips, and special needs camps. Planning early issummer camp to cover last minute cancellations,
important; you should be diligent in your efforts to visithomesickness, medical emergencies and emergency
camps during the peak season to make plans inevacuations. Check the camper-counselor ratio to
advance of the next camping year.determine the number of campers for each counselor.
Most camp counselors are in their late teens or earlyIf you think your child may not be ready for a
twenties and are high school and college students onsleepaway or overnight summer camp, choose a local
their summer break. Visit the camp; you can viewcamp in case you end up having to make a late night
campers and counselors in their element, witnesspickup in the event he or she gets homesick. Think
activities as they occur, and just obtain an overall feelabout what you and your child hope they'll get from
of the camp, something that cannot be accuratelygoing to camp. Overnight summer camp is often the
experienced when the camp is closed. The reputationfirst time that most children spend a long period of time
of an overnight summer camp can also be determinedaway from home. Typically an overnight summer
by asking what percentage of counselors returnedcamp experience will leave a lot of wonderful
from the previous year.memories for the child or teen camper.