You know how kids learn by doing? So do leaders. This newsletter pulls one sharp, useful idea each week from the world of summer camp, where growth is real, messy, and unforgettable. Use it at work, home, or wherever you’re building something that matters.
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Summer Matters
You know how kids learn by doing? So do leaders. This newsletter pulls one sharp, useful idea each week from the world of summer camp, where growth is real, messy, and unforgettable. Use it at work, home, or wherever you’re building something that matters.
Summer Matters Inspiring confident, kind kids & forever friendships I was talking to a dad the other day, and while we were on the phone, he was checking his actual physical mailbox. He laughed. Sitting in the stack of mostly junk was a letter addressed to him, from his daughter, sent five weeks ago while she was at camp. How a letter takes 5+ weeks to make it about 100 miles, neither of us could figure out. He didn't seem to care. Because in it (he read part of it to me) was just regular...
Summer Matters Inspiring kind confident kids & forever friendship This evening marks the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. For many of us in the Kenwood and Evergreen community, it is a familiar moment on the calendar—a time to look back on the year that has passed, think about what we have learned, and consider the kind of people we hope to be in the year ahead. You certainly don't have to be Jewish to recognize the value in that exercise. And this year, as I look back on an...
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...