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Win a FREE COPY of Sunshine’s Book, HAPPY CAMPERS!

Win a FREE COPY of Sunshine’s Book, HAPPY CAMPERS!

With summer coming to a close, and another challenging school year ahead for our kids (and for us parents), we want to remind you about a resource Audrey "Sunshine" Monke created to help parents bring home some of the happiness, connection, and character growth of GAC: Happy Campers: 9 Summer Camp Secrets for Raising Kids Who Become Thriving Adults.

Happy Campers is now available from Audible! Listen to or read a free sample from Happy Campers:

Download the audio of Camp Secret #1: Connection Comes First

Download the print version of Camp Secret #1: Connection Comes First Join Sunshine to chat about coaching your kids to improved social skills and better friendships: Tuesday, August 31 (12-1pm PT) discussion of Camp Secret #9 (from Happy Campers): Coach Kids to Better Friendships. We'll talk about the skills kids need to make and keep friends AND how you can coach ... Read more

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Session 2 Video Highlights & Slideshow

Session 2 Video Highlights & Slideshow

We have so many great memories from Session 2. Here are a few highlights as recorded by our awesome media team (AKA the "GACarazzi"): [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRbFX6Hdn1Q[/embed]  

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Camp Kindness Day

Camp Kindness Day

GAC is excited to be joining camps across the country in celebrating Camp Kindness Day! For our summer theme, Better Together, we've been talking about ways we can be better together. After a year of being separated from loved ones and friends, it's more important than ever to remember to be kind to one another and find ways in which we are better together.

Here's what the American Camp Association has to say about Camp Kindness Day:

On July 20, the camp community will participate in Camp Kindness Day – an event highlighting the practice of intentional kindness that happens every day at American camps. This is an opportunity to raise awareness of the the great work that camps are doing to teach kindness in engaging, simple, repeatable, and high impact ways that live on in the daily lives of campers and staff members when they return home. Focusing on our youth and young adults, Camp Kindness Day will help showcase the commitment of the camp community to fostering the core values of kindness, compassion, generosity and care, and integrating those values more fully into every aspect of our society. These values are already part of the fabric of the camp experience. We share the mission for our youth to be nurtured, taught, supported, and inspired to grow into our new generation of kind, compassionate, socially-minded, community-oriented citizens.   Camp Kindness Day will allow camps to incorporate into their July 20 programming fun theme-based activities and cooperative games, cool projects, and memorable moments which will ... Read more

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