Sleep Away Summer Camps for Boys and Girls in Pennsylvania
Hello & Happy Friday!
We just wanted to let you all know that our Winter Reunion for our 2012 Equinunk and Blue Ridge campers will be on Saturday January 5th, 2013 at the Westchester Renaissance Hotel. Details and times will be made available as the event approaches.
We’re looking forward to seeing you all there!
All The Best,
The CECBR Team
It’s Friday night which means it’s time for another Richie Kamen classic! Here it is — The Grandma Story. As always, the story is available for Download using the player below!
Well, it’s that time of year again for the Fall Edition of ‘The Buzzer,’ our official camp newsletter.
As we work to put the finishing touches on the buzzer, we encourage you to send us your articles, poems, and to share any wonderful news or events going on in your lives, so that we may share it with our entire Equinunk/Blue Ridge family.
Please send all submissions to scott@cecbr.com with the Subject Line “Fall Buzzer Submission.” Thank You!
All The Best,
The CECBR Team
Happy Sunday! It’s time for another Richie Kamen story as we continue on in our series. This week’s story is The Frog And The Scorpion – which is a favorite here in the East Hampton Office!
Since this is a special Sunday night edition and tomorrow is October 1st (and Monday) – we thought we would throw in some bonus tracks for you! How many times have you said — “wow do I wish I could wake up to Reville this morning, just like I do at camp!” Well guess what folks – now you can! Check out the two tracks below recorded by one of our very own CA girls – Chloe! Remember, you can listen and download using the player below:
Yom Kippur also known as Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year for the Jewish people. Its central themes are atonement and repentance. Examples of both themes can be found in this next story from Richie – entitled “Nails & The Tree”:
Hello from East Hampton!
Every Friday night at camp we have the privilege of listening to Richie’s stories. It is certainly one of our weekly highlights and now you can listen to some of your favorites in your very own home and year-round!
Over the next few weeks we will continue to post stories to our Blog, New Media Center located in the Current Families Section of our website and iCamp! The hope is that you download each and every one of these stories to create a set!
For this week we decided to do something special – we are posting THREE tracks! One of which is a Bugle call recorded from one of our very own CA girls, Chloe! Play the tracks in order and it will all make sense! Enjoy and as Richie would say after finishing his stories on Friday night…”Shabbat Shalom.”
The CECBR Insider Team
The first in a series of Camp Stories from Richie Kamen has been released and is available for listening and download! We will continue to add tracks throughout the next few days and weeks. Enjoy one of our personal favorites – The Rabbi and The Coachman:
To Download the story – press the “Download” button in the upper right hand corner of the player above.
Hello from Equinunk Pennsylvania!
Summer 2012 may have ended a few weeks ago but we have already turned our attention to Summer 2013! We are thrilled to announce our Important Dates for our next camp season:
Greetings from CECBR!
We are working on our NEW online Media Center so you can enjoy all of the amazing photos and videos we are producing this summer at Equinunk & Blue Ridge! In the interim – check out this awesome Highlight Video from CE Father/Son Weekend!
Two great articles were published on the New York Times Blog Network on Summer Camp! You can check them both out here:
In an act of quiet rebellion, my daughter will spend this summer as a counselor at a sleep-away camp in the Adirondacks. As rebellions go, this one is admittedly very tame. But she is resisting considerable pressure to join the throngs of anxious fellow collegians (she’s finishing her junior year) who will pad their résumés with summer internships in corporations, charities, law firms and other employers that, according to conventional wisdom, offer better preparation for the brutal economy than a summer camp.
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Are you having trouble getting your 9-year-old daughter to make her bed every day? How about your 11-year-old son? Does he get up in the morning and run down to the dining room to set the breakfast table for the family? And after breakfast, does he clear the dishes and wipe down the table? He doesn’t? Sorry to hear that. (Neither did mine.)
And while I’m at it, may I ask about video games? Texting? Do your children get angry and stubborn when you ask them to shut off their electronics at dinner time or when it is time for bed? Lots of parents have told me that the turn-off-the-video-games confrontations can be tougher to handle than the turn-off-the-TV moments.
Whether the issue is chores or screens, at times like these we question our own parenting: have we spoiled our children? Do they lack discipline … or do we? Should we emulate the focus of the tiger moms? Why can’t we raise our bon bébés with the natural authority of French parents? Why is it that our children, by the age of 8 or 9, have tired of our commands and our advice? We must look ourselves in the mirror and ask: What should we be doing differently? Time to buy more parenting books!
As a so-called “parenting expert,” I am struck by how often American parents think that the answer to their parenting dilemmas is for them to do more, or better, or to do something differently. I disagree. I often believe parents should do less, and should sometimes take themselves out of the picture, especially in the summer, when it’s easy to stop battling and turn some of the toughest parenting challenges over to 20- and 21-year-olds who can perform magic with their children.
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