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Maplewood Country Day Camp & Enrichment Center in Easton Ma is a fun and exciting place for preschool to 9th grade kids. Their mission is to create a warm, welcoming, creative environment year ëround that makes everyone feel like family. With caring counselors and specialists, children are guided as they take on new challenges in every step of the way. For further information visit: 150 Foundry St. (Route 106) PO Box 88 (Mailing) South Easton, MA 02375 Email: info@maplewoodyearround.com Telephone: (508) 238-2387 FAX: (508) 238-1154 Website: Facebook: YouTube: youtube.com/c/MaplewoodCountryDayCampEnrichmentCenter1 Googe+: google.com/+MaplewoodCountryDayCampEnrichmentCenter1 Twitter: – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Summer Camp and Its Lifelong Benefits to Children


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AND ITS LIFELONG BENEFITS FOR CHILDREN
SUMMER CAMP
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  • Its easy to think of summer camp as just a place
    for swimming lessons, dodge ball, boating and
    arts and crafts, an easy solution to summer
    boredom for kids.

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  • Of course, all these things are true, and summer
    camp memories are made of canoe expeditions,
    swimming competitions, tie-dye t-shirts and
    rousing camp songs.

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  • However, while kids are having a blast playing
    games, making summer friends and learning new
    skills

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  • they are also absorbing a host of vitally
    important life lessons that will last long after
    the last bus ride home from camp.

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THE PLUSES OF
PERSEVERANCE
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  • Its not always easy to set a goal and then
    battle on through hardships and setbacks to meet
    it, whether its trying to

Finally swim the length of the pool.
Making it across the highest wire in the ropes
course.
Mustering the courage to try a speaking role in
the camp skit.
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  • At summer camp, kids have a safe, nurturing
    environment perfect for trying out new skills and
    learning how to keep going through initial
    failures to meet a goal.

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Maybe they get tongue-tied on stage at first and
need a little prompting to keep going
or maybe they start to get discouraged at
repeated failures to make it up to the next level
of swimming classes.
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  • But many learn the rewards of finally succeeding
    with practice, perseverance and a bit of
    morale-boosting.

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  • Not only do kids benefit from the help of staff
    and other campers, but they can also learn how
    rewarding it can be to be the person cheering on
    a friend or camp mate whos trying hard to meet
    their own goals.

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No I
IN TEAM
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  • There are of course loads of games and activities
    at camp, and many of them have sneaky ways of
    helping kids learn to function as a team while
    they are having piles of fun in the sun.

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  • More obvious team builders include rope course
    activities, many of which are specifically geared
    to this all-important skill.

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  • However, there are a vast variety of ways camp
    encourages kids to figure out how to work toward
    a common goal with a group.

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  • Whether its going all out in a color wars event
    or helping a struggling fellow softball teammate
    perfect her swing, camp is chock full of
    opportunities to learn there is no I in team.

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  • Needless to say, this skill is highly valued
    everywhere in our society from school to the
    athletic field to the work place.

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HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS AND
INFLUENCE PEOPLE
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  • Camp is a great place to learn how to make
    friends, a skill more difficult than it sounds
    for many.

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  • Some people are by nature out-going, but many of
    kids need to learn a few skills that build
    confidence

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  • and make meeting new people and making friends
    easier, whether at camp, in school or in the
    far-distant grownup world.

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  • Summer camp is where kids can shed whatever role
    they may feel pigeonholed in at home and reach
    out to all sorts of new people.

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  • Camp counselors are specially trained to help
    kids reach out to others and even how to cope
    with the inevitable occasional rejection.

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  • By the end of camp, most kids have a host of new
    summer friends that make the anticipation of next
    summers fun even more enticing.

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  • Let your kids enjoy the
  • summer camp experience at Maplewood Summer Day
    Camp.

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  • Experienced staff will keep your child both safe
    and busy with arts and crafts, games, water
    sports, gymnastics and more.

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  • Visit the site at http//www.maplewoodyearround.co
    m

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MAPLEWOOD COUNTRY DAY CAMP AND ENRICHMENT CENTER
150 Foundry St. (Route 106) PO Box 88
(Mailing) South Easton, MA 02375 Email
info_at_maplewoodyearround.com Telephone (508)
238-2387 FAX (508) 238-1154
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