Summer camp is good. It provides space for personal growth that cannot be replicated in other environments. The business of camp is the business of children—play.

Stuffed animals, a lunchbox, a pink blanket. Those were among the belongings left behind after a raging torrent from Texas’ Guadalupe River overwhelmed a cabin that was occupied by 8 and 9-year-old ...

My husband and our three kids move into summer camp to live there. My husband is the camp director of a camp in Ontario. The five of us live in a 350-square-foot cabin with no kitchen. I never would ...