subject: A School Camp Can Help Your Child Live A Fulfilling And Diverse Life [print this page] School camp experiences are a common part of Finnish lives today. Almost all children in Finland visit a camp of some kind as they are growing up. This is primarily due to the belief systems that developed after WWII. Many citizens of Finland believed that children who had only been exposed to city life were missing out on the more amazing aspects of life. As a result, many people believed that children need to be exposed to more diversity and more natural environments to fully develop their minds and their lives.
Now that Finnish children are exposed to the environments of camps, many people believe that children have more positivity in their lives. It is also believed that camp experiences increase the amount of tolerance children have for the diversity of the world's people as well.
Many people still support the idea that camps are needed to fully develop children too, because many people have seen that children develop into well rounded individuals by attending these special places. When children visit camps in the wilderness, they are often given a great opportunity to observe the natural and majestic beauty of nature and all of its wonders.
Many camps are based around religious practices, but a large majority of camps are primarily devoted to helping children learn about their world, helping children learn about various belief systems, and helping children become well rounded and genuinely positive adults.
It is commonly believed by instructors at educational institutions that environments like camps, and the environments that are discovered through field trips, help young minds develop. The diversity and the amazing discoveries that can be found while on a field trip greatly improve a child's development and their ability to think about global issues.
Children who are not given the chance to see these field trips or these camps on the other hand are only exposed to the harshness and limited nature of their city lives. As a result of these experiences, they often continue to tend the beliefs they have developed at a very young age and become incapable of thinking about the bigger pictures that involve the entire planet they live on.
Children who are given a chance to experience field trips and go to camps in the wilderness on the other hand develop friendships with individuals from many different backgrounds. These children also come across many beliefs that differ from their own. As a result, not only are their beliefs and understandings of the world more fully developed, but they also become comfortable with the idea that other people around them have beliefs that differ from their own.
So, if you are looking for a great way to ensure that your child grows up to be a well rounded adult who appreciates the beauty and diversity found in life, you should definitely think about exposing your child to the wonders of field trips and school camp experiences. Whether or not your child actually learns anything directly from these experiences is practically irrelevant, because your child will almost certainly expand their minds and their ability to ponder larger issues by simply seeing a larger world than they are generally used to observing.
