Sunshine Parenting

In Episode 96, I'm talking with my friend Brooke Cheley-Klebe of Cheley Colorado Camps. We cover a range of summer camp-related topics including longer camp stays, adjusting to camp and overcoming homesickness, what it's like for teenagers to have the much-needed break from screens, video games, and social media that traditional summer camp programs provide, and the life-long friendships that campers develop at camp. Getting Unplugged at Camp (audio is in the intro for this episode): BIG IDEAS It's as important to build the character of the youth as it is to educate them. Children return from a longer camp stay with freshness and with a new sense of confidence and independence. Unplugging for an extended period of time gives kids the opportunity to develop new habits. In a 27 day time period, kids really are able to jump into the camp experience, settle in, and make friendships. Twenty-seven days is long enough for kids to have to work through it if they are homesick or if there's somebody at camp that they