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How To Keep Your Camper Happy!: Soccer All Summer

This document provides information about various types of camps and tips for parents sending their children to camp. It discusses questions parents should ask camps regarding activities, instruction, supervision, and policies for sports camps, academic camps, community service camps, traditional camps, and day camps. The document also provides advice for minimizing homesickness, such as ensuring children know they are expected to have fun rather than feel homesick, and maintaining contact through letters and care packages.

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How To Keep Your Camper Happy!: Soccer All Summer

This document provides information about various types of camps and tips for parents sending their children to camp. It discusses questions parents should ask camps regarding activities, instruction, supervision, and policies for sports camps, academic camps, community service camps, traditional camps, and day camps. The document also provides advice for minimizing homesickness, such as ensuring children know they are expected to have fun rather than feel homesick, and maintaining contact through letters and care packages.

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CAMPS

4A | FEBRUARY 22, 2013

OAKCLIFFPEOPLE.COM

HOW TO KEEP YOUR


CAMPER HAPPY!

o your child is going to camp for the first time. Or maybe


theyre trying a new type of camp. Whether theyre
trekking the halls of Europes colleges or hitting the
pavement of a California tennis court, its your job as
a parent to get the low-down. Know what to ask, and youll both

be prepared. Tips on Trips and Camps is a free camp advisory


service that works in 16 cities with 600 camps to help families get
ready. Helene Abrams, Texas consultant for Tips on Trips and
Camps, has put together a few questions parents should ask, no
matter what type of camp their children choose. Sarah Bennett

PHOTOS: SAIL CARIBBEAN

Campers learn sailing, scuba diving, and marine biology at Sail Caribbean.

SPORTS
What are indoor activities
in case of inclement
weather?
How long is play time in
relation to instruction time?
What are the non-sport
activities?
How are students matched
to an instructor?

Schools Out &


Summers In!
Time to make friends, learn
new skills and most
importantly have FUN!

PHOTO: DISCOVERY INTERNSHIPS

Discovery Internships offers academic programs to students in


the U.S. and abroad.

JJune 10 9
July ek1

Select from a range of oneor two-week academic


enrichment, artistic, sports
or fun-filled camps.

thru

Boys and girls, ages 3-18.

June 3 August 16
Request or download a catalog at
www.greenhill.org/summer.
Or call 972-628-5490.

One-we ps
day cam

Morning,
afternoo
full-day n and
ca
children mps for
four year
s
old and
above.

ACADEMIC
Who teaches the courses?
Is a student guaranteed to get the courses they
choose, or at least one?
What are the weekend activities, and are they
supervised?
Are students allowed to go into town?

SMU MENS SOCCER

It is the policy of Greenhill School to administer its educational programs, including admission
and financial aid, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic
origin, or disability.

SPECIAL ADVERTISING CONTENT

Soccer All Summer

Nasher Kids Camp


Your modern camper will discover the Nasher
collection through hands-on art projects, games
and stories inspired by the masters of modern
and contemporary art! Space is limited.
June 24 28 | Registration opens March 18.
nashersculpturecenter.org/summercamp

The Mens Soccer


Program at SMU would like
to invite players of all levels who have the desire to
improve and develop their
talent within a fun environment. We are committed to
helping each player reach
their personal best through
the use of challenging
instruction and competitive
games. Located on the beautiful campus of SMU, promising players will be given
a firsthand look of what
it is like to be a Division I
athlete at one of the finest
institutions in the country.
The SMU Soccer
Academy for Boys is open
to any and all entrants

only limited by age, grade


level, gender and number restrictions. To learn
more please visit www.
smumustangs.com/socceracademy, email smusocceracademy@gmail.com
or call 214-642-1738.

Camps

OAKCLIFFPEOPLE.COM

FEBRUARY 22, 2013 | 5A

PHOTO: VISIONS SERVICE ADVENTURES

Students get their hands dirty with Visions Service Adventures in Central American countries such as Nicaragua (above) or the Dominican Republic (below, left).

COMMUNITY SERVICE

TRADITIONAL

Does the camper


choose the area of work?

Is there a uniform?
Are the dorms
bunk-bed or cot-style?

It the program multifaceted, or do kids work


on one project at a time?

What is the
counselor-to-camper
ratio?

If a project falls
through, how quickly is
there a replacement?
What happens to a
project if supplies dont
arrive at the worksite?

How much choice


does a camper have
in daily or weekly
activities?

PHOTO: CAMP WEKEELA

Camp Wekeela in Maine gives kids the traditional camp


experience.

Be Ready When Homesickness Hits


Try these tricks
to minimize or
prevent longing

Tim McClements

SOCCER
ACADEMY
For Boys

BY SARAH BENNETT
Staff Writers

2013

hether your
kid is headed
across the
Trinity or
across the Atlantic, summer camp can be exciting
and a little scary.
Because many first-time
campers experience homesickness, the American
Camp Association, which
has been around for 100
years, knows how to help
ward it off.
Try these tips, and your
camper may just be too
busy making friends and
learning skills to be homesick. Dont be too heartbroPack a favorite stuffed
ken, parents.
toy, family photo, or personal item from home to
DO
keep in the cabin.
E n s u re t h a t yo u r
Keep those cards and
camper knows hes not letters coming but make
expected to feel home- them short and sweet.
sick this may seem like Include phrases such as
a no-brainer, but let your cant wait to hear your
camper know before he stories and were imaginleaves that you want him ing all the fun youre havto have fun and try new ing.
things.
Remind your child DONT
that going to camp is a
Bribe campers with a
special experience not all material reward for staykids get to have, and youre ing for the program. You
sending her because you want the experience not
love her.
a prize to be the focus.

DAY CAMP

June 17-21 Boys Ages 5-13

OV ERNIGHT CA M PS
Residential Camp 1
College Prep Camp 1
Residential Camp 2
College Prep Camp 2

July 6-9
July 6-9
July 10-13
July 10-13

Boys Ages 10-14


Boys Ages 15-18
Boys Ages 10-14
Boys Ages 15-18

For more information, visit:


www.smumustangs.com/socceracademy
Email: smusocceracademy@gmail.com
Call: 214-642-1738
Per NCAA rules, all sport camps and clinics conducted by Southern Methodist
University are open to any and all entrants and enrollment is only limited based on
age, grade level, gender, or number restrictions as specified by each camp.
PHOTO: TONY BALAGUER

Use phrases such as


you missed out on in your
letters, or tell your camper
the dog or cat misses them.
Itll only fan the fire, no
matter how small it is.
Give into child-sickness. Parents can miss
kids just as much as kids
miss parents, but remember they are gaining independence and having fun.
Forget the staffs training and expertise. They are
well-equipped to handle
homesickness if your child
gets it.
Email sarah.bennett@
peoplenewspapers.com

GOOD SHEPHERD EPISCOPAL SCHOOL

S-T-R-E-T-C-H Your Imagination at Good Shepherd


At Good Shepherd
Episcopal School, we recognize summer provides
the perfect time to stretch
your childs imagination.
Our Summer Program,
designed for grades pre-k
through seventh, offers a
unique blend of dynamic
camps and academic
enrichment sessions.
Let us foster your
c h i l d s l o v e o f l e a r n ing this summer, so they Summer Program 2013 | June 10 July 19
can gain confidence to turing environment.
and build a custom schedexplore their individual
Visit our website today ule for your child.
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