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What to Do If Your Child Hates Camp: A Parent's Guide to Navigating a Tough Summer Situation
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June 30, 2026
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Stage Music Center
Stage Music Center (Winchester & Acton) offers creative music and theater camps across winter break, spring break, and summer, all built around music, art, and performance in a small, supportive setting...
Acton, Winchester
Full Day
Greater Boston
Stages Theatre Company
Stages Theatre Company’s Summer Theatre Workshops are designed as “pick-your-week” theatre camps for ages 3 through Grade 12, and taught by professional teaching artists—with a big emphasis on kids getting to sing, dance, act, play, and build confidence while making friends...
Southern Suburbs
Full Day
Half Day
Few Hours
Twin Cities
Steve & Kate's Camp - Cambridge
Steve & Kate’s offers full-day summer programs (typically 8 a.m.–6 p.m.) for children aged about 4–12 (some locations to age 13). The core philosophy is child-driven: campers choose their own activities, design their days...
Full Day
Greater Boston
Steve & Kate's Camps - Nationwide
Steve & Kate’s offers full-day summer programs (typically 8 a.m.–6 p.m.) for children aged about 4–12 (some locations to age 13). The core philosophy is child-driven: campers choose their own activities, design their days...
Full Day
Super Duper Tennis - Battery Park
Super Duper Tennis offers flexible tennis camp options, typically lasting 1.5 to 3.5 hours per session, focused on kids and built around age-specific lesson plans so that children learn while they have fun. Camp sessions are offered during school-breaks, holidays and throughout the summer at locations in NYC and NJ...
Battery Park
Full Day
Half Day
Few Hours
NYC
Super Duper Tennis - Northeast U.S.
Super Duper Tennis offers flexible tennis camp options, typically lasting 1.5 to 3.5 hours per session, focused on kids and built around age-specific lesson plans so that children learn while they have fun. Camp sessions are offered during school-breaks, holidays and throughout the summer at locations in NYC and NJ...
Full Day
Half Day
Few Hours
Super Stars Tennis - Battery Park
Super Stars Tennis runs full-day summer camps for children ages roughly 3-9 at locations in the Upper East Side, Tribeca, and Brooklyn. The weekly camp runs Monday-Friday and includes tennis fundamentals taught in their age-appropriate Quick Start format (smaller courts, lighter racquets, slower balls) combined with games, sports and enrichment...
Battery Park
Half Day
Full Day
Few Hours
NYC
Super Stars Tennis - Greater New York
Super Stars Tennis runs full-day summer camps for children ages roughly 3-9 at locations in the Upper East Side, Tribeca, and Brooklyn. The weekly camp runs Monday-Friday and includes tennis fundamentals taught...
Half Day
Few Hours
NYC
SWAN (Shuang Wen Academy Network)
Shuang Wen Academy Network (SWAN) is an incredible Mandarin immersion school in New York with the goal of teaching children to be global learners. The summer camp provides a language-immersion experience for children ages 2 to 14, combining Chinese language learning with arts, crafts, games, math, swim time, ukulele, and chess. The curriculum is designed to be both educational and fun, offering full-day programs and themed weeks...
Little Italy
Full Day
Few Hours
NYC
TADA! Theater
TADA! Youth Theater is a Drama Desk Award–winning nonprofit in Manhattan that produces original family musicals and runs a robust arts-education arm (classes, camps, workshops, plus in-school/after-school partnerships). Their education mission emphasizes accessible, high-quality musical theater programming...
Flatiron District
Full Day
Half Day
NYC
Teamworks Centers - Acton
Teamworks offers a variety of camps for kids ages 4-16. Their summer camps run from mid-June through late August and welcomes children aged approximately 4 to 16. They offer a variety of schedules with an extended day options. The camps feature a wide range of themed tracks...
Acton
Full Day
Half Day
Greater Boston
Teamworks Centers - Northeast U.S.
Teamworks offers a variety of camps for kids ages 4-16.Their summer camps run from mid-June through late August and welcomes children aged approximately 4 to 16. They offer a variety of schedules...
Full Day
Half Day
The Fashion Squad School
The Fashion Squad School offers many programs for kids 5-18, including: Fashion Camps & Workshops Short-term, intensive sessions that take place during breaks or special times (e.g., holidays, summer). These workshops pack the same core elements—design, sewing, styling—into a condensed format, allowing kids to dive into fashion design in a fun, immersive way even when they aren’t enrolled in full term programs...
Tribeca
Full Day
Half Day
Few Hours
NYC
Tom Denney Nature Camp
TDNC is a full-day nature-based summer day camp sponsored by the Bolton Conservation Trust, designed for children entering Kindergarten through high school. For the younger group (grades K-5) the camp runs Monday through Friday...
Bolton
Full Day
Greater Boston
University of Minnesota - Women's Basketball
The U of M women's basketball summer camps offer a range of summer programs tailored to girls interested in improving their basketball skills while having fun in a positive, energetic environment. Hosted at the University's campus, these camps are led by the Gopher women’s basketball coaching staff, current and former players, and trained support staff...
Dinky Town
Half Day
Twin Cities
USA Sport Group
USA Sport Group runs a wide range of sports camps and classes year-round, with a big focus on multi-sports camps that let kids try several different sports in one program. Their camps and classes are designed for ages 2–14, with “Sports Squirts®” programs created specifically for younger children (8 and under) and general sports camps for ages 5–14. A typical summer...
Full Day
Half Day
Wellesley Theatre Project
Wellesley Theatre Project (WTP) summer camps are built like a menu of theatre options by age and intensity—from fun, themed day camps to serious, audition-based productions—so families can choose “try it out” weeks or a true performance training track. On the lighter/creative side, WTP offers themed camps...
Wellesley
Full Day
Half Day
Greater Boston
White Bird Productions
White Bird Productions is a long-running Brooklyn arts organization (30+ years organizing community through theater) that specializes in original, kid-made theater—meaning students aren’t just learning lines; they’re also helping create the script, music, and design with guidance from professional teaching artists...
Park Slope
Full Day
Few Hours
NYC
Worcester Academy Summer Programs
Worcester Academy’s summer programs are set up as a menu of week-long specialty camps so you can plug your child into exactly what they’re excited about, rather than a one-size-fits-all day camp. On the academic side, they offer camps like Maker Camp, Robotics, Science, Coding, Filmmaking, Video Production, Video Game Design, and Reading & Writing, each running in its own dedicated week during late June and July...
Worcester
Full Day
Half Day
Greater Boston
Ya Ya Preschool
Summer Ya Ya is a Mandarin immersion summer camp for young children, run by the team behind Ya Ya Preschool—a 100% Mandarin-immersion early childhood program in downtown Manhattan. The camp is staffed by native-speaking Mandarin head teachers with strong backgrounds in early childhood education and language development...
Tribeca
Full Day
Half Day
NYC
YMCA - Camp Massapoag
Camp Massapoag is the YMCA of Greater Lowell’s outdoor day camp, located in Dunstable, MA on beautiful Massapoag Pond. It’s a classic “get dirty, be outside all day” kind of camp with a strong emphasis on fresh air, friendship, and old-school camp fun...
Lowell
Full Day
Greater Boston
YMCA - McBurney
The McBurney YMCA in Chelsea offers a range of summer camps that are designed to give kids a full, active camp day with convenient hours for families. Most camps run 9 a.m.–5 p.m., with optional extended hours from 8–9 a.m. and 5–6 p.m., and are offered in two-week sessions from late June through August. For school-age kids, the core option is the traditional summer camp (ages 6–11), which focuses on a classic “all-around” camp experience...
Chelsea
Full Day
NYC
YMCA - Nationwide
The YMCA sees camp as a "transformational experience”; time away from screens where kids can make friends, try new things, and be outdoors. Across the U.S., Ys run a wide variety of year round options, serving hundreds of thousands of kids each year...
Full Day
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