Camps
Picked a Camp? Try These Tips for a Successful Summer Experience
Now that you (hopefully) have chosen a camp for your child, be confident. You wouldn’t have made that decision if you didn’t believe your child was ready for it.
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Private Schools Open Their Campuses for Summer Camps
These camps encourage students to keep learning, develop new skills, and have fun.
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Letter from a Camp Counselor
For 14 years, Joshua Forbes spent his summers at Camp Classen, first as a camper, then as a counselor, then as the person who trains campers to be counselors.
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Camp John Marc a Family Legacy
Started in 1991, Camp John Marc partners with area pediatric hospitals to serve children, teens, and families with chronic illnesses and other special needs.
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Summer Camps Bolster Essential Life Skills
As parents, we work fast and furious with college advisers to help our children get that competitive edge, get into that prestigious college, land the perfect job, and be successful in all they do.
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Kersten Rettig: Camp Food Fuels Adventure and Memories
The first Sunday in June marks the start of camp season.
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Rainbow Days Sets The Stage For At-Risk, Homeless Youths
Since the early 1990s, the nonprofit Rainbow Days has welcomed at-risk and homeless youths in the Dallas area to a visual and performing arts summer camp where they can enjoy new experiences and discover new talents.
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Go Into The Woods For a Different Type of SATs
For years, parents have decided what summer programming options would be best for their children.
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A Girl’s Eye View of BSA Camping, Philmont Scout Ranch
Megan Dean Egan Miller: Watching my dad, I’ve seen countless examples of what he gained from advancing to Eagle Scout.
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NFL Professionals Teach Underrepresented High Schoolers
High school football players from the Dallas-Fort Worth area get to learn from NFL professionals at the Camp Exposure Football Invitational, a free, all-inclusive sports camp curated for underrepresented high school athletes.
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Favorites of 2022: Summer Is For Stand-Up
What’s the deal with airline food, am I right? People Newspapers client relations coordinator Maddie Spera took an intro to stand-up comedy class at the Dallas Comedy Club to find out about this and other jokes and wrote about it in a column this summer.
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