Parenting
Building a spaceship!
What happens when you’re the children of life-long Muskoka Woods guests turned staff? You find yourself building a spaceship while you’re following the instructions of health officials and staying home. We present Muskoka Woods at home content. Now we aren’t...
Summer Camp Provides the Building Blocks for Life
When you think about the building blocks of life — the knowledge and skills we need to guide us through even the toughest moments — what do you think about? Social skills? Independence? Resilience? Having all of these abilities is paramount in achieving a happy,...
Essential Qualities to Look for in a Summer Camp for Teens
If you have a teenager, even the mention of summer camp can cue the largest of eye rolls. While some teens may associate camp as an experience solely for younger kids, summer camp can actually offer some real benefits to teens — fun being the biggest one! If you’re...
Screen Time and Addiction: Are You Modelling Addictive Behaviour for Your Kids?
When we think about addiction, we typically associate the term with alcohol, drugs and gambling. But what about the device you’re using to read this blog post? Technology, specifically in the form of portable tech like mobile phones, has become just as addictive and...
Benefits Of Co-ed Summer Camps For Kids
Every day when I pick up my kids from school, I notice a common theme on the playground: the boys and girls group together with their respective genders. Day in and day out, the boys typically play along the fringes of the soccer field while the girls congregate on...
How to prepare your anxious child for overnight summer camp
I wasn’t sure how my son was going to react to his first overnight experience at a camp. Sure, he was older now, but the last time I had tried to enroll him (just two years previously) in even just a day camp, I received a tearful call from him, begging to be picked...
5 Ways to Develop Leadership Skills in Your Children
Today’s children are tomorrow’s leaders. This may be hard to accept, especially if you don’t think your child is anywhere near ready to lead anything — or anyone. However, the truth is, every child has it in them to be a leader in some way, you just have to foster...
How to have a conversation with your kids about leaving cellphones at home
It’s more and more common for kids of all ages to own mobile devices. My eight-year-old daughter personally benefited from my last cellphone upgrade, inheriting my old iPhone 6. I figured it was a perfect way for her to familiarize herself with the technology with no...
5 Reasons Why Kids Need a Break From Electronics
When was the last time you were asked by a fellow parent about how much screen time you allow your children? I was just asked last week. And the week before that, too. We’ve all been in situations with our kids where it’s easier to hand them an iPad to stave off...
Your Child Should Go to Muskoka Woods, here’s why
The school year will be over before you know it and the house will once again be flooded with the sights and sounds of your kids on summer vacation. So there’s no time better than the present to start thinking about where you’ll send your kids for overnight camp. ...