Benefits of a Coed Camp

By: Lonnie Lorenz

Consider Sex When picking A Summer Camp
<BR><BR>As Director of Swift Nature Camp, a Wisconsin coed camp summer camp, I will tell you that the benefits of a coed camp is that they prepare children for the real world. We purposefully guide children with their interpersonal skills in healthy ways. It's kinda like turning back the hands of time. Our goal is to help campers to be friends with the other gender and learn how friends act rather than always acting like gender-role and stereotypes we learn in school and from society. Camp provides a place where boys see girls as leaders and athletes; girls in turn see boys in nurturing, expressive roles. It is important that coed camps promote opportunities for respectful relationships and true personal growth while setting the boundaries for the children and stop any flirtation and flaunting. At Swift Nature Camp We work hard with our staff to ensure that they are good role models nonromantic, polite, genuine male-female interactions we want campers to follow.
<BR><BR>A single gender camp provides children an experience that is different and uniquely supportive. At a single-sex camp, children see balanced role models and avoid romantic distractions. Girls interact with women who are both tenacious and tender, confident and caring. Boys interact with men who are both strong and compassionate, assertive and attentive. At a single-sex camp, Kids can be themselves, they don't have to worry about how the other gender sees them. During their time at camp they have had a chance to increase confidence and understanding and are reenergized to go back to the coed world. Single-sex camps tend to promote that which is stereotypically feminine and stereotypically masculine. It is important that these attributes are presented in a balanced way and that staff are trained to keep attitudes in check such as bravado and machismo at a boys' camp or gossip and diffidence at a girl camp. All in all its important that the atmosphere promotes an environment where boys and girls feel an enhanced sense of emotional safety.
<BR><BR> At a single-sex camp, youth can be themselves, they don't have to worry about how the other gender sees them. Girls interact with women who are both tuff and tender, confident and caring. Boys interact with men who are both strong, understanding and assertive . At a single-sex camp, children see balanced role models and avoid romantic distractions, can really promote personal growth. During their time at camp they have had a chance to increase confidence and understanding and then are ready to go back to the coed world. Single-sex camps tend to promote that which is stereotypically feminine and stereotypically masculine. staff are trained to keep attitudes in check such as bravado and machismo at a boys' camp or gossip and diffidence at a girl camp. The bottom line is that the atmosphere promotes an environment where boys or girls feel an enhanced sense of emotional safety.
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