Kids Camp (part 2)

The Kids Camp is very memorable because that was the beginning of my wonderful journey toward building great friendships and fond memories. There were many great lessons learned during the Kids Camp also. One in particular I mentioned in the last post was how to do chores or to really help out around the house. By doing these activities, not only did we learn a new skill, but we were also building a foundation for success. You might say how that can be. By learning to do simple household chores can be a foundation for success.

When children learn to clean and continue to practice it, they will eventually create a habit of keeping clean. When you children are keeping clean, there is less cleaning that is needed to do by both the child and the parents and the child will have a sense of responsibility. Responsibility in helping take care of your parents and the house you all live in together. When their responsibility is increased, they then become confident. At first they are confident in how they can help out around the house, then it becomes confident in what they do and how they think. With the guidance of the parents and good friends (Kalayanamitra) to help encourage them towards what is right and to explain why in both cases the idea or action was right or wrong, their child will then become a good decision maker and have a more clean understanding of morally good and bad.

As you can see from the picture below, we had plenty of children in the categories of young, youth, and teens. There were also many volunteer staff and the teens themselves would be like a big brother or sister to the youngsters and help guide them.


(Sunday School which replaced Kids Camp later on, please continue to follow me to learn more)

Another wonderful lesson we learned was how to meditate. Meditation is a wonderful tool that can help anyone no matter what sex, race, religion, or social status. When we learned to calm our mind, we didn't realize it at the time, but we became more focused and able to absorb and sustain knowledge much longer than before. Meditation is a wonderful tool to have for anyone who would like to experience inner happiness and peace.