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Article: Training your staff to manage the challenges of adolescence.
- Article from:
- Camping Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Adolescence is a challenging time for everyone. Bodies and minds are in a constant state of flux as young people confront intense emotions and novel experiences. Camp is an ideal environment for older campers and younger staff to get their first real experiences with responsibility and develop new interests--while dealing with the normal challenges of "growing up." Not all challenges are normal, however, and any problems young people have are likely to follow them to camp. We need our staff to be ready for these challenges.
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