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Media Use Among Children
About a year ago, the Kaiser Family Foundation published the results of an extensive study examining the amount of time children (ages 8-18) spend consuming different forms of media for recreation:...
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NC Camps Impact the Economy
There’s big news coming out about western North Carolina summer camps. Back in March, the North Carolina Youth Camp Association and the American Camp Association, commissioned researchers at North...
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Camp is Awesome!
Thanks Ella! We think so too! Related Rockbrook Camp posts:Awesome Camp Photo Book Mt. Pleasant Party Summer Camp for Young Girls
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To Raise a Humane Child
Our friend Tom Rosenberg at Blue Star Camps recently turned us on to Zoe Weil, the author of several books on “Humane Education” and the president of the Institute for Humane Education. He quite...
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Washington DC Camp Party
We had a great visit to the home of the Newnams’ in Washington, DC recently for a summer camp party. Fellow campers Meg and Stephanie joined Anna and Lydia to see themselves in the Rockbrook slides...
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A Confident Equestrienne
If you’re a horse kid, an equestrienne (a girl who loves all things horse related), then you will love the equestrian camp programs at Rockbrook. You’ll of course learn a lot about riding and improve...
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Parent, New Orleans, LA
As first timers, it was very reassuring to see my daughter’s smiling face. Each day I became more impressed with Rockbrook itself and the entire staff’s (and campers’) unending supply of energy,...
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Miami Rockbrook Girls
We’re back from a great trip down to Miami Florida talking summer camp with the girls down there, connecting with current campers Morgan E., Isadora K., Sarah G., and Bella M., and meeting a bunch of...
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5 Ways Camp Helps Children Grow
Summer camp professionals around the country, largely encouraged by the American Camp Association, have begun to refer to camps as “Youth Development Organizations.” Being at summer camp, we all agree...
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Camp is an Adventure
Camp is an adventure! It is because it gets girls outside for all kinds of exciting activities. Climb high up a real rock! Paddle a raft down through whitewater rapids. Sleep in the woods far from the...
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Kids Love to Weave
Just about every day at Rockbrook you’ll find kids weaving down in Curosty, one of the nineteenth century log cabins at camp. And there are all kinds of looms in action and weaving techniques going on....
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Amy Chua and Summer Camp
Have you run into Amy Chua’s book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, or heard any of the controversy surrounding it? The book is mostly a memoir of Chua’s own childhood and her Chinese mother’s parenting...
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Is She Ready for Camp?
Is your child ready for sleepaway camp?It’s a common question, even from parents who went to camp themselves. Children have such individual needs and develop at so very different rates, there’s no age...
View ArticleInterrupt the Race to Nowhere
After discussing the rigorous, driven parenting style recounted by Amy Chua, the recent documentary film Race to Nowhere adds fuel to the fire. In their desire to do “what’s best” for their kids, to...
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Dolly’s Dairy Bar
Do you know they have the best ice cream in the universe? Do you know they have a super chocolate flavor of ice cream called “Rockbrook Chocolate Illusion?” Did you know that every Rockbrook camper...
View ArticleHorse Girls of all Ages
One common question about our horseback riding program is whether all the girls at camp, from the smallest kindergartners to the oldest teenagers, can ride while attending Rockbrook. The answer is yes!...
View ArticleHow to define “Camp”
Defining “camp” or a “summer youth camp” is more difficult than it might first appear. We all tend to speak about camps, and understand summer camps as somehow special. We believe they can be...
View ArticleLeave No Trace Climber
What happens when you encounter some trash out in the forest? At Rockbrook, we know! As a partner of the Leave No Trace Center for Outdoor Ethics, we are committed to the seven core principles of...
View ArticleKids Learning Ceramics
Coming to one of Rockbrook’s camp sessions is a wonderful opportunity for kids to learn about ceramics. Instead of just “painting pottery,” where you apply glazes to pre-formed ceramic pieces, we start...
View ArticleAll Their Senses
“I worry about how much time my kids spend looking at a screen.” We’ve heard this more than once recently, perhaps not so surprisingly when you consider how many electronic screens are part of our...
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