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Camp Walt Whitman, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is the best coed sleepaway camp available in New England. Boys and girls from 2nd grade into their teens have the time of their lives participating in sports, water activities, outdoor recreation and the arts. Coaches, teachers and professional instructors oversee the large number of programs offered. Children make friendships that last a lifetime at Camp Walt Whitman. Visit Site: http://campwalt.com/ Camp Walt Whitman 1000 Cape Moonshine Rd Piermont, NH 03779 603-764-5521 [email protected]
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How Coed Summer Camps Teach Respect for the
Opposite Sex
The battle of the sexes between men and women has been in existence since the dawn of time. This begins at a young age.
It’s common to see boys and girls having troubles interacting well with the opposite sex.
They don’t know how to communicate and how to behave around each other.
“Many children outgrow this but many still bring this with them to their teenage years
and even into their adulthood.”
There are many things parents can do to teach their children how to interact positively with kids of the opposite sex.
One of the more effective methods is by sending children to a coed summer camp. This is extremely beneficial, especially if your kid is studying in an all-boys school or an all-girls school.
A coed program will let boys interact with girls and vice versa in a supervised, structured, fun and positive setting.
Highly Trained Staff Guide Interactions
According to child development experts, putting kids of different sexes together in one environment supervised by highly trained overnight summer program organizers improves friendliness and increases compassion.
These experts point out that understanding the other gender aside from one’s own is a crucial component of the development of young people.
Coed sleepaway summer camps can also instill the value of gender equality and the importance of respect towards the members of the opposite sex.
One of the main hesitations that a number of parents may have on sending their children to coed camp is the fear that their kids won’t be able to do activities specific to their sex.
THIS IS NOT TRUE.
A good camp will have exclusive activities for boys and separate activities for girls.
Of course, there are activities that boys and girls do together and these are supervised by experienced and competent camp staff.
If there are conflicts which are unavoidablein camp settings, they are
immediately resolved.
Another fear many parents have about coed summer camps is the possible distraction the kids of the opposite sex may have on their children.
It’s typical for a young boy to have a crush on a young girl and vice versa. Sometimes girls will quarrel because they like the same boy and boys engage in fist fights because they like the same girl.
According to child psychologists, having these feelings is normal; the important thing is to channel these feelings positively.
At well supervised camp, girls are discouraged from wearing cosmetics and are encouraged to just be themselves even when around boys.
Learning how to deal with these emotions at a young age is better than facing them at later time and not knowing how to control these feelings.
Overall, coed summer camps are good venues where children can learn respect for the members of the opposite sex.
On top of this, children acquire other values such as charity, teamwork, sportsmanship, camaraderie and taking care of the environment.
Plus, they learn all these while having fun and meeting new friends.
Camp Walt Whitman, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire,
is the best coed sleepaway camp available in New England.
Boys and girls from 2nd grade
to teens have the time of their lives
every summer.
1000 Cape Moonshine RdPiermont, NH [email protected]
