Your camper is in the back seat buzzing from the adrenaline of saying “bye” to their new friends. They are jumping from story to story or sharing events from the week that were hysterical but you “just had to be there” to get it. Maybe they already have their headphones in, ready to go back to the ‘real world’ and their own bed. Either way, your camper just had a heightened experience on a mountain with a lot of new adventures. That can be hard to process and going back home can be shocking.
Here are a few questions to help you connect with your camper about their experience and to help your camper process their week!
- How are you feeling as we drive away from camp?
- Did you make any new friends this week? What made you connect/like hanging out with that person?
- What was your counselor like?
- Did you counselor ask you to do anything scary? Anything that pushed you out of your comfort zone and into your challenge zone? What did you feel before you did it, while you did it, and after?
- What was your favorite activity this week? What was your favorite day and what happened that made it so good?
- Camp’s theme this summer is “Give Thanks.” What was something that made you thankful this week?
- What discoveries or insights did you gain about God this week? Was there a time you felt close to God or farther from God?
- When did you feel the most loved this week?
- Did you grow in your faith at camp? How would you like to keep growing in your faith? Is there something I can do to help you with this?
- Tell me something that happened this week that you never want to forget!
Whether the conversation happens on the car ride home, at the dinner table that night, or a week later on the way to soccer practice, we encourage you to hear about your child’s week from their point of view – the sooner the better to keep the memories fresh!
Engaging with their stories and their faith will not only strengthen their memory of the week but will promote a collective faith in your family. Use LVR as a launching point for your family’s faith walk and fan their spark that started at camp!