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By March, many parents researching camp for the summer have a dozen browser tabs open and no clearer picture than when they started. Summer camp selection is one of the few major decisions parents make each year with almost no standardized way to...
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DEAN Camps groups campers by developmental stage rather than just their grade: Discoverers, Explorers, Achievers, and Navigators, each with its own...
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A three, four, or five-year-old doesn't need a packed schedule to have a great summer. They need activities built around how they actually learn:...
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Parents usually hear "school readiness" in the context of kindergarten. The habits that make a five-year-old ready for a classroom, following a...
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Most families researching summer camp options end up with a list of questions to ask a director. Fewer end up with a list of what to actually watch...
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Most camp searches start with a location and end with a list of activities. For Lower Merion families, the more useful question is what a child at a...
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Summer camp shopping starts with a simple question that gets complicated fast: does this schedule cover my workday? A camp that ends at 3:30 PM might...
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By week three of camp, plenty of parents notice the same thing: the kid who was thrilled in June is dragging his feet in July. The cause is usually...
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Some kids count down the days until camp starts. Others come home wrung out by the second week and ask not to go back. If that second description...
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School readiness gets treated like an academic checklist: letters, numbers, the alphabet song. The skills that predict how a child handles a...
4 min read
By March, many parents researching camp for the summer have a dozen browser tabs open and no clearer picture than when they started. Summer camp selection is one of the few major decisions parents make each year with almost no standardized way to...
Read More
3 min read
DEAN Camps groups campers by developmental stage rather than just their grade: Discoverers, Explorers, Achievers, and Navigators, each with its own...
4 min read
A three, four, or five-year-old doesn't need a packed schedule to have a great summer. They need activities built around how they actually learn:...
3 min read
Parents usually hear "school readiness" in the context of kindergarten. The habits that make a five-year-old ready for a classroom, following a...
4 min read
Most families researching summer camp options end up with a list of questions to ask a director. Fewer end up with a list of what to actually watch...
3 min read
Most camp searches start with a location and end with a list of activities. For Lower Merion families, the more useful question is what a child at a...
3 min read
Summer camp shopping starts with a simple question that gets complicated fast: does this schedule cover my workday? A camp that ends at 3:30 PM might...
4 min read
By week three of camp, plenty of parents notice the same thing: the kid who was thrilled in June is dragging his feet in July. The cause is usually...
3 min read
Some kids count down the days until camp starts. Others come home wrung out by the second week and ask not to go back. If that second description...
4 min read
School readiness gets treated like an academic checklist: letters, numbers, the alphabet song. The skills that predict how a child handles a...
