Why camp is great for children

If you’ve been to camp, you’re not surprised to hear about the benefits of summer camp. Experiencing life at camp yourself as a child, you know the profound positive effects that still matter to you as an adult, and you also know that you want the same thing for your own kids.

​But if you didn’t go to camp as a child, you may not realize just how good the experience is for children. You may not know why so many parents are committed to sending their kids to camp. Here is a list of the most important reasons to send your scout to camp.

At Camp Children:

​Why Camp is Great for Children

At camp, children:​
​Spend Their Day Being Physically Active
As children spend so much time these days inside and mostly sitting down, camp provides a wonderful opportunity to move. Running, swimming, jumping, hiking, climbing! Camp is action!
Experience Success And Become More Confident
Camp helps children build self-confidence and self-esteem by removing the kind of academic, athletic and social competition that shapes their lives at school. With its non-competitive activities and diverse opportunities to succeed, camp life is a real boost for young people. There’s accomplishment every day. Camp teaches kids that they can.
Gain Resiliency
The kind of encouragement and nurture kids receive at camp makes it a great environment to endure setbacks, try new (and thereby maybe a little frightening) things, and see that improvement comes when you give something another try. Camp helps conquer fears.
Unplug From Technology
 When kids take a break from TV, cell phones, and the Internet, they rediscover their creative powers and engage the real world— real people, real activities, and real emotions. They realize, there’s always plenty to do. Camp is real!
Develop Life-Long Skills
Camps provide the right instruction, equipment and facilities for kids to enhance their sports abilities, their artistic talents, and their adventure skills. The sheer variety of activities offered at camp makes it easy for kids to discover and develop what they like to do. Camp expands every child’s abilities.
Grow More Independent
Camp is the perfect place for kids to practice making decisions for themselves without parents and teachers guiding every move. Managing their daily choices in the safe, caring environment of camp, children welcome this as a freedom to blossom in new directions. Camp helps kids develop who they are.
Have Free Time for Unstructured Play
Free from the overly-structured, overly-scheduled routines of home and school, life at camp gives children much needed free time to just play. Camp is a slice of carefree living where kids can relax, laugh, and be silly all day long. At camp we play!
​Learn Social Skills
Coming to camp means joining a close-knit community where everyone must agree to cooperate and respect each other. When they live in a cabin with others, kids share chores, resolve disagreements, and see firsthand the importance of sincere communication. Camp builds teamwork.
Reconnect with Nature
​Camp is a wonderful antidote to “nature deficit disorder,” to the narrow experience of modern indoor life. Outdoor experience enriches kid’s perception of the world and supports healthy child development. Camp gets kids back outside.
Make True Friends
Camp is the place where kids make their very best friends. Free from the social expectations pressuring them at school, camp encourages kids to relax and make friends easily. All the fun at camp draws everyone together— singing, laughing, talking, playing, and doing almost everything together. Every day, camp creates friendships.
​Please plan on arriving at camp to check in on Sunday afternoon 12:00pm-2:00pm
 
When you arrive, please go directly to the Bucklin Building, second floor. You will first go to the Memorial room and check in with the provisional staff. They will check your health form and make sure that your information is correct. You will then proceed to the Bucklin office and check in at the far right hand window. You will make sure that all of the payments are in order. You will then proceed to the Webelos, Baden Powel or CIT campsite. They are located in Camp Medicine Bow.
Mail - We send and receive mail every day at Yawgoog. Mail is sorted and distributed to the three camps. Outgoing mail at each camp is picked up every morning. There are mailboxes located in each of the three dining halls and in the Bucklin building for out-going mail. Each Campsite has its own mailbox, and it’s important that incoming mail bear the correct information in the address, including the Scout’s Name, the Camp Name (Three Point, Medicine Bow, or Sandy Beach), the Campsite, the Week the Scout is in Camp, and the Troop Number and Community. Put this information above our regular mailing address of Yawgoog Scout Reservation  Narragansett Council, BSA 61 Camp Yawgoog Road  P.O. Box 14777 Rockville, RI 02873
 
Example:
Joey Scout
Camp Three Point Campsite Tuocs Week 3
Troop 1 Yawgoog
61 Camp Yawgoog Rd.
Rockville, RI 02873
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