Summer Matters Inspiring confident, kind kids & forever friendships I am standing in the assembly area looking down at the Hollow thinking “THIS IS SO AWESOME” Some inters and juniors are shooting on the soccer goal with a freshman boy trying to keep up. Cooper and some boys are launching a frisbee across the field. Senior boys and girls are talking in the Adirondack chairs, definitely not flirting. Some kids are in conversation, others running around. It’s 100% organized and freewheeling at...

Summer Matters Inspiring confident, kind kids & forever friendships Anyone on this list with a kid in a New Jersey public school probably got a very similar email this summer. It’s from their district, and it’s about phones. The Garden State signed a phone ban into law for every K-12 public school kid, joining a bunch of other states already doing this. The shorthand people are using is bell-to-bell. Phones away from the first bell ring of the day to the last one, starting this school year....

Summer Matters Inspiring confident, kind kids & forever friendships For the last stretch of the summer, if you went up to The Woods during an activity period, just about everything was running. Pickleball. The Ropes Course. Archery. Fort building. One activity was missing for a little bit though. The slingshots. Why? The dads broke them at Visiting Day. I think that’s awesome. I’m being serious. We bought more. All good. So why would we be cool, even excited, about something at camp breaking...