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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQx8KKLurJk   Our 2022 Camper Support Team is an amazing group of people with many years of experience who are ready to provide assistance to campers and support our counselors this summer. Our main focus is to partner with you to provide the best camp experience possible for your child. We will contact you if your camper is having an especially difficult time settling in to camp or if we need assistance with a behavior your child is exhibiting that's not meeting our camper standards of behavior. If you have any questions or would like to share how we can best support you and your camper, please let us know! Send us an email or give us a call at 800-554-2267 x. 0. We're looking forward to helping your camper have FUN, make FRIENDS, and GROW! Happy Camping, Chelster & the GAC Camper & Counselor Support Team: Assistant Directors: Gem, Mec, & Peanut Butter Head Counselors: Aloe, Anmut, Bagel, Bravo, Dinky, & Tripps

Session 1 has started! We're so excited to welcome our Session 1 campers to our first two-week session of the summer. This session we have campers coming from as far away as Cananda, Mexico, and Germany and representing many states! Of these campers... 126 are 1st time campers at GAC 194 are returning campers 28 are 3-year campers and 16 are 5-year campers! We are so excited for the next 2 weeks that will be spent hiking, singing songs, waterskiing, campfires and so much more! Make sure to keep up with everything going on at camp through our News & Photos (on the Campanion App or your My GAC Login). What are we eating this week? Check out the Session 1 Menu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWXzHTxtsW4

Audrey "Sunshine" Monke's article for Camping Magazine, "Happy Campers: Teach and Practice Healthy Habits at Camp" highlights some of the healthy habits we practice at GAC, including: Habit #1: Face-to-Face Connection Habit #2: Get Sufficient Sleep Habit #3: Exercise Habit #4: Spend Time Outside Habit #5: Kindness Read the full article here.

As parents, we spend a lot of time making our kids comfortable. Feeling cold? I’ll grab you a sweatshirt. Hungry? Let me get you a snack right away! Kid being unkind? I’ll complain to the teacher and make her stop! At times, I’ve felt like it’s my duty to alleviate any discomfort my child is feeling. I think a lot of parents feel this way during this unique era of “overparenting.” One friend described the “lawnmower” parent who grooms the path for their child to make it smooth and without any bumps. Some of us by nature are more “gritty” than others, able to push ourselves and deal with discomfort. Think about endurance runners who stumble across the finish line, bloody and exhausted. Others of us are more prone to climbing deeper into our turtle shell when faced with life’s inevitable discomforts and challenges. We tend to hunker safely inside our comfort zone and not let anyone or anything pull us out. No matter where our kid’s (or our own) starting point may be, it’s important to explore the concept of being uncomfortable and, as parents, learn to tolerate that discomfort when our kids are feeling anxious, nervous, or afraid. It’s not easy. Our natural instinct is to protect our kids from any and all discomfort. And when they’re little, that natural instinct serves us (and them) well. We change dirty diapers, feed them when they’re hungry, grab them before they run into the street. Emotional discomfort ... Read more