The Medford Summer Camps Activities

By Sally Delacruz


People like resting and taking a break from their day to day activities and spending time with their families and friends. Children also look forward to taking these breaks to have fun and play with their friends. There are many activities lined up for the kids and are offered by Medford summer camps such as skiing, swimming, scrabble and various sporting activities. These activities are always put in place for the kids to enjoy themselves and also learn, they are always pocket friendly to the parents.

A summer camp is a program for children, teenagers or youths conducted during the summer seasons where they get to interact, exchange ideas, educate each other and enjoy themselves. These camps usually have to be supervised by older people to make sure that the children/teenagers are safe; they eat and meet their purpose for going to the camps.

There are many advantages of taking children to these camps. Some of the advantages are: they learn many different cultures from the others who come from different states or continents, they learn different languages and also learn different things like how to take care of each other and themselves and they also get to know how to be responsible in life and to accommodate each other.

Making new friends is another benefit they get since in the camps they are going to spend time and live with people they meet for the first time. Some of the teenagers/children get to discover their talents or what they are good at participating in the numerous activities held there.

Other benefits include exercising through the many sporting activities they are taught. This makes them both strong and healthy keeping sicknesses at bay. Kids who are usually loners get to learn to interact and socialize with other kids thus making new friends. Kids also learn to be independent and friendly, they also learn to share things. The many things they gain/ learn from this summer camps leave them always looking forward to the next holidays.

The camps are also very educative in that the small kids learn how to do basic things like doing the dishes, spreading the beds and even making simple things like sandwiches and salads. As much as there are many good things in taking your kids to the summer camps there are also disadvantages like: some kids find in difficult to mingle with the others whom they do not know.

Some parents find it hard to stay away from their kids for the long holidays. They do not get to spend quality time with their children during the long summer holidays because by the time they get back home it is already time to go back to school.

It is seen that the advantages overweight the disadvantages and parents are being urged to take their children to camps. It is important for every kid to get to experience camping, for first time campers it is important for the parents and camp directors to guide them and let them know what to expect.




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