We are excited to announce our new website is live! We hope you will find our Association to be a helpful place to connect with like-minded camps and camp directors. Take some time to browse through the site and find a camp near you! We would also invite you to join us for our 2017 Annual Conference coming up soon! Thanks for stopping by and be sure to let us know if you have any questions or suggestions for us.
Welcome to Our New Site!
November 15, 2016marklovetv3 CommentsSouthern Baptist Camping AssociationCamping | Conference Center | SBC | Southern Baptist
Welcome to the new SBCA website. I think you will find it extremely user friendly and useful. A special thank you to Mark Love and Sprocket web Works for working with us in getting this developed. If there is anything I can do to assist you please let me know. Jeff Kohns – President SBCA
13 June 2016
Technology and Stunted Emotional Growth
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Tech-Free Camps Provide a Solution
“Mom, do I like ranch dressing?” Supposedly, this was a text from a college student to her mom from a salad bar.
It’s an example of young people dependent upon technology, and it points to the use of cell phones as an extension of their own brains. That rather than doing a quick taste test, the student in the story turns to her phone (and her mom) for the answer, because, well, it has all the answers.
A New York Times article this week (“Phone-Sick at Camp” By Jill Werman Harris, June 7, 2016) quotes Christopher Thurber, a clinical psychologist who focuses on youth development and summer camp: “How we communicate has changed the nature of attachment, and it complicates the separation that kids and parents go through,” he said.
The article also quoted a study of sixth graders who spent just five days at a tech-free sleepaway camp. According to the study, these kids developed greater understanding of real-world interpersonal communication cues, including a better ability to read facial expressions, make eye contact, and interpret tone of voice and other prompts, such as posture and keeping an appropriate spatial distance with others.
Sounds to me like tech-free camps serve a significant purpose in the social and emotional development of kids today. Is there something adults can learn from this, too?
Read the full article here.
Just one year ago I attended my first SBCA conference and was truly blessed to be there at Acadian Baptist Center in Eunice, La. Our Camp Friendship is very small in relation to many of the others represented within the SBCA but that didn’t matter to any of you. You all made us not only feel significant but you made us believe that we really are and for that I thank you. This year has been no different. Just being together again at Camp Caraway has really been great. Those of you who host these events are greatly appreciated and I’m excited to hear all the good reports of lives being changed for the glory of God as a result of it all. Loving the SBCA.