5 benefits of summer camps for children
Among the activities that our children can do in the months of vacations that lie ahead, one proposal is the summer camps. The activities that are offered in the camps, colonies and summer work camps is very broad.
The summer camps dedicated to a specific activity are the most popular. There is a limitless offer: some are dedicated only to one sport, which can motivate our children to register if it is their favorite sport and perhaps also if they already practice it. And others to practice languages, which are currently in high demand. In these colonies and camps, the children develop all the activities in another language and serve to practice the knowledge acquired during the school year, but in a more playful way.
Monitors trained in the camps
In the summer camps and colonies, activities are developed that complement those carried out in the school center and with the family nucleus. The responsible monitors are young people trained through courses they have completed and for which they have obtained a training qualification. Their responsibility is high since they can arise all kinds of unforeseen events such as small physical accidents, health, problems of coexistence with other children or adolescents ...
5 benefits of summer camps
Reasons to enroll your children in a summer camp:
1. Perform tasks and activities without the help of parents.
2. Get out of the routine. That they are different from the ones they do the rest of the year and that it helps them to change or break with the routines, learning new techniques and being able to experience them.
3. Respect the opinions of other colleagues, making contributions to the group, but without imposing, showing an education in values.
4. Improve your personal self-esteem and self-confidence. For example, when they make spontaneous contributions to the group.
5. Enhance coexistence: most of the activities they do are useful to improve the feeling of belonging to the group and also help to make new friendships and to know better those who were already friends, since they also have free time to interact with freedom.
Alternatives to summer camps
We must take into account the interests of our children in case they do not want to participate in any camp or other scheduled activities. We can suggest that they organize their own free time themselves. For example, they can offer to walk the dogs or take care of the domestic animals of the neighbors who are on vacation, water the plants, pick up the mail, etc.
In the case of adolescents, there are more and more alternatives to have an active summer. Currently, there are some libraries that do not close in the summer and organize activities related to reading. The Youth Services of the municipalities also organize several workshops. They can also take advantage of the summer to develop some punctual work in order to get some savings.
Of course, any decision taken will have to be taken into account if the results of the school year have been positive or will have to be reinforced during the summer holidays.
Mercedes Corbella. Psychologist and diploma in Social Work.
