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Kid’s Camps—The After-School Camp Experience

Help Your Child Find the Right After-School Camp Experience

For parents and for kids, there’s good news—the camp experience isn’t limited to the summer months anymore. As a parent, you may have concerns about the safety of your children once school has let out, particularly if you have to work, and cannot be there when they get home. As a young person, you can participate in structured activities with friends and classmates, and work on developing skills that will help you perform better in school, or focus on extra-curricular activities that you love. Many after-school camps provide opportunities to work on math, science or other academic skills, but there are also camps devoted to sports, the performing arts, and other interests.

Educators and psychologists have long known that the camp experience offers a wide range of benefits to kids of any age, from elementary school to college. In the camp experience, where participants customarily have to work together, and where inclusiveness and effort are celebrated, young people develop such critical skills as listening, communicating and critical thinking. The safe environment provided by the camp experience, along with guidance from positive role models, helps children build self-esteem, self-reliance, independence and confidence. An after-school camp can also be a haven for young people, away from the distractions and dangers inherent in modern life.

This web site, designed by parents for parents, provides additional information to help you evaluate the different opportunities available to your child, and find the right fit. To get more information about the different after-school camps that might interest you and your children, visit our Kid’s After-School Camp Directory page.

We have also compiled information on a wide variety of kid’s camps, designed to provide opportunities for kids with a range of interests. To learn more, go to our Kid’s Camp Directory home page.