PARENTS - What are you looking for in a soccer camp?

PARENTS -What are you looking forin a soccer camp?

In addition to helping develop your child’s skills and understanding of the game, summer camps are extremely valuable for young players to develop socially. Children have to learn how to separate from their families and become resilient and independent learners. Attending a summer soccer camp gives them a safe way to take safe first steps towards this goal.

Whether it is a day camp or a residential camp, the experience broadens your child’s life experiences and often taps resources they have never had to call on before. Camp pushes children out of their comfort zone

and exposes them to new ideas, new activities and new experiences that they may not be familiar with. Players get the opportunity to experience different styles of coaching, different forms of motivation, and

can explore new areas of their game without the fear of making a mistake.

To become happy, successful adults, children need certain social skills to develop positive

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relationships with others. The camp environment can help children build these skills and encourages them to communicate, to work together as part of a team, to talk freely to each other, and also provides opportunities for them to take on leadership roles and even try to be a new kind of person for that week.

The best camp operators provide players with the opportunity to receive a week of great coaching in a positive atmosphere from someone with a real passion for the game. At

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