If You Have The Opportunity To Sleep- Take It!

If you have the opportunity to sleep- take it!

Mental health tip

Get enough sleep.

Sleep is very important. Young adults (18-24) need 7 ½ to 9 hours and teens (14-17) need 8-10 hours of sleep a night. So, how does one get sleep at camp when it’s full of late nights, early mornings, and campers waking you up in the middle of the night. Tried and true tips:

Designate someone as the nighttime wake-up counselor. Everybody takes a turn being the designated person who gets up if a kid needs something in the night. Trade off? They sleep in a little bit.

Get kids to bed on time by using a nighttime routine and starting it early enough. Remember, it takes little kids longer to get ready for bed and calmed down enough to sleep.

Designate half the counselors to be bedtime counselors and half to be wake-up counselors. Bedtime counselors stay up later but sleep in a little and wake-up counselors go to bed a little earlier and get up earlier.

Don’t do your paperwork when you should be sleeping. Maybe that means you slip away during lunch to do paperwork, but reserve time in your tent for actual sleeping.

Take naps during breaks if you need to, especially if you were up during the night.

Camp Playlist

Every camp staff knows the struggle of finding camp-appropriate music to jam to. So here’s my playlist of camp-appropriate songs (which I play while driving).

“Best Day of My Life” by American Authors

“Pompeii” by Bastille

“All American Girl” by Carrie Underwood

“Bubbly” by Colbie Calliat

“Bright” by Echosmith

“Immortals” by Fall Out Boy

“On Top of the World” by Imagine Dragons

“Don’t Stop Believin’“ by Journey

“Suddenly I See” by KT Tunstall

“Ho Hey” by the Lumineers

“Whole Wide World” by Mindy Gledhill

“Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield

“Home” by Phillip Phillips

“Fight Song” by Rachel Platten

“Life is a Highway” by Rascal Flatts

“Brave” by Sara Bareilles

“Geronimo” by Sheppard

“Anthem” by Superchick

“One Girl Revolution” by Superchick

“Shake it off” by Taylor Swift

“Shut Up and Dance” by Walk the Moon

“Firework” by Katy Perry

“Story of My Life” by One Direction

“Renegades” by X Ambassadors

(various Disney songs)

Alright camp people of Tumblr, add on your favorite camp-appropriate songs.

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thelittlestladylikesthis

1 month ago

Introducing Young Boys to Pronouns and Gender Identity

*Has a pronoun talk with my chilluns and talks about how gender identity is nothing to be ashamed of and we are a family so there is no judgement at camp*

Camper 1: "So why is [Non-Binary Camper] wearing a skirt?"

7 Other Campers: "It's a skort!"

NB Camper's Twin: "Don't worry Texas, we were paying attention, I just can't stand when people can't get the difference between skirts and skorts!"

*I haven't been this proud since that time I had a cabin filled with Harry Potter obsessed 3rd graders.*

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thelittlestladylikesthis

6 years ago