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HELMET by Maggie Magner
As a camp director I appreciate my staff for making sure every child has a helmet for the climbing wall, for mountain biking, for snow tubing during Vacation Camp… but as a parent I wish there were a magic helmet for all the other tender, tentative moments of their childhood. A helmet to protect them from failure, from insecurity, from the apprehension of their first day in a new school, town, or camp.
But in the absence of such a fictitious safety item, we have to rely on the everyday tools of resilience: connection, competence, and autonomy. These are the core facets of growing up that we all crave, and which reside at the center of what we do at Summer Fenn.
We know that the …
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