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What every boy needs, and what he has a right to demand, is the opportunity to develop the best that is in him. How to aid in this development is the anxious thought of every parent.

In the complex process of education of the boy the quality which more than every other makes for success is the quality of self-reliance. Until the boy acquires. this quality progress is both slow and painful. Without it there is no real joy in effort.

The development of a child is a thing of such absorbing interest that one is apt to lose the true perspective with relation to the child. The child himself is also apt to get an exaggerated notion of his importance by reason of his being the centre of family interest and attention. From this he must inevitably suffer when later he is subjected to the unbiased evaluation of other children. The importance of other children in any scheme of child education is often lost sight of.

The indulgence of the boy in the home, the desire to smooth away all rough places in his path and to lighten every burden for him, leaves him scant opportunity to develop independence of either thought or action. We insist upon doing his thinking for him. We fail to realize that only by the exercise of judgment and suffering the consequences of his mistakes will he acquire the ability to form correct judgments.

After six years' experience in camp-management it is my firm conviction that a well-organized and well-conducted vacation camp affords a boy the best opportunity for self-discovery. The indulgence of the home is wanting, and the boy is thrown largely upon his own resources. Not that he is in any sense neglected, for all necessary assistance is sympathetically given, but the

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inclination to rely upon others, to look to them for suggestion and direction is discouraged. The result is that even very young boys quickly learn to love the feeling of independence which comes with thinking and acting for one's self. To many this feeling is wholly new.

Vacation camps are schools of the very best sort. Many fields of attractive effort are open, and under such conditions of freedom to choose the thing that pleases, no boy chooses to be idle. The stimulus of the desire to equal the accomplishment of some other boy is a spur to sustained effort that usually yields gratifying results, gratifying alike to the boy and to his parents.

To have friends one must be friendly, and every normal boy wants to have friends. Snobbery or anything that smacks of it is in camp a thing almost unknown, for it carries its own inevitable penalty of social isolation. The broad democracy of the camp is one of its charms. Leaders become such by their proved fitness to lead, and ability in any line of camp effort never fails of discovery. Such democracy is sure to develop the best that is in a boy, and as a result camp spirit is strong, and loyalty to camp is a cardinal virtue.

Though new and prized friendships are formed and new stores of energy are acquired, it seems to me this feeling of independence and self-reliance, or, as I have before called it, "self-discovery," is for many boys the best thing gained at camp.

What has been said of boys' camps is, if any difference, to a greater extent true of girls' camps. My experience covers both, and it is my belief that girls have even greater need than do boys for the free, out-of-door life of the camp.

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