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Set up a message board in a central location for everyone to use. You can still have the private boxes for the staff in the staff room for more important and private massages. The public message board is for the campers to leave messages for other campers, campers to leave messages for the staff, the staff to leave massages for the campers, or for staff to leave a fun note for other staff. It can be an encouragement/fun note board for everyone to use. I would encourage all the counselors to leave at least one note per week for everyone in their cabin saying something encouraging. This board would also give the campers that are to shy but want to say something or ask something an opportunity to do it in a non-threatening way.

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If you really want the campers to listen to you, kids enjoy boundaries. If there are no boundaries the campers do not know where the line is and they try hard to find it. In doing this they could cause a lot of problems and hassle trying to find the line. The best thing is to set the bar and then stick to it. If you make a threat and then do not follow through the campers will see that and you lose all credibility with them and they will not listen to you. Once they know that you mean business then you can give them freedoms and good times.

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If your campers are have trouble sleeping at night or settling down here are a few things to try:

Age 5-7:
Home Sick pills (see post)
After lights out, light a candle and read them a book or bible stories from the Message
Have a bed time routine for them to follow (the same every night)
Let the few that are still struggling move their mattress beside your bed (never let campers sleep in your bed)

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Ask the program director to have cabins sign up for their activity as a cabin during tuck time. Have the program director add showering to the list.

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Have a cabin activity time during the day, two good times are either during tuck time when tuck is between 1.5-2 hours long or if tuck time is shorter, schedule a time in, usually right before supper is a good time then everyone is together and is easy to get to supper and start on time

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