Camper Of The Week

Although Rosie, a model camper, does not participate in her friends' prank and is not caught and disciplined, she decides to join her friends in the punishment because she knows she helped them.

An insightful and powerful look at the magic of summer camp—and why it is so important for children to be away from home . . . if only for a little while. In an age when it’s the rare child who walks to school on his own, the thought of sending your “little ones” off to sleep-away camp can be overwhelming—for you and for them. But parents’ first instinct—to shelter their offspring above all else—is actually depriving kids of the major developmental milestones that occur through letting them go—and watching them come back transformed. In Homesick and Happy, renowned child psychologist Michael Thompson, PhD, shares a strong argument for, and a vital guide to, this brief loosening of ties. A great champion of summer camp, he explains how camp ushers your children into a thrilling world offering an environment that most of us at home cannot: an electronics-free zone, a multigenerational community, meaningful daily rituals like group meals and cabin clean-up, and a place where time simply slows down. In the buggy woods, icy swims, campfire sing-alongs, and daring adventures, children have emotionally significant and character-building experiences; they often grow in ways that surprise even themselves; they make lifelong memories and cherished friends. Thompson shows how children who are away from their parents can be both homesick and happy, scared and successful, anxious and exuberant. When kids go to camp—for a week, a month, or the whole summer—they can experience some of the greatest maturation of their lives, and return more independent, strong, and healthy.

Retirement plan: Find a quiet peaceful community. Build a new home. Move. What can go wrong? A few weeks after initiating the plan we have a worldwide pandemic! We end up as a cross between homeless people and camper people. We become very acquainted with the porta potty industry. Our lovely vacation camper becomes a death trap. Will The Husband's survival skills keep us alive long enough to move into the new home? We invite you into our camper life, but be prepared--there is a lot of laughter here!

Abby Riley has always been shy, quiet, sensitive, and what her father calls "compassionate." What she'd rather be is more like her friends-outgoing like Carin, funny like Rachel, or artistic like Lindsay. That's just what she vows on her way to Camp Spirit-that she'll be cool and fun and that she won't shed a single tear all week.But then Abby gets to summer camp, and her determination to change gets swallowed up by the excitement of the week when her second summer as a camper turns out to be a year of firsts...first crush (on her counselor, of course!), first grasshead craft project, first encounter with camp bullies, first use of the dean's underwear in a skit. How can Abby make sense of all these firsts and become the new person she wants to be when the camp buddy who helped her last year is far away in heaven?

The way I remember it. Barb and her sister Kitty leave husbands home and take their collective gaggle of eight young children from Florida and Mississippi all the way to California for their summer vacation. These two thirty-something moms and their off spring wander into harms way more than once in this fun action filled adventure. There is plenty of suspense and mystery, there's witch craft and UFO's, western folk lore and even a little romance along the highway as they camp across America in a homemade camper In the summer of 1975. Things were different then.

Time spent with the family in a Coachmen Leprechaun or a Holiday Rambler is unforgettable. Indiana retains a unique place in the RV industry going back to the 1930s, when pioneering individuals like Milo Miller, Harold Platt and Wilbur Schult created the original RV businesses in the Elkhart-South Bend area, making campers for sale. By the end of World War II, the national media was identifying Elkhart as the "Trailer Capital of the World." That status has been reinforced ever since, and the industry is still thriving in Indiana with the successes of Thor Industries and Forest River. Join author and RV expert Al Hesselbart as he chronicles how the Hoosier State became the RV Capital of the World.