Nathan

At the camp I work at, out of around forty staff members last summer, five of them were girls, and only one of those girls was over 18. But, no problems ever arose; there were no romantic entanglements, and there was no untoward behavior. While it would seem that putting girls and boys together with little supervision would indeed lend itself to some obvious problems, that is not what happens. You can also not discriminate against girls working at a boy scout camp on the premise that some offensive results may occur. Such thinking is merely conjecture with little empirical evidence to su

Maybe it's a little late to offer any advice now, but seeing as it still is some ways until summer... I'm the first year camper director for Camp Olmsted (we call our program TrailsHead), and the number one most important thing you can do is to know every single scout's name in the program. If you know their name, the scout feels better about himself and is going to have a lot better time at summer camp (this is especially important as a great number of first year scouts are homesick). Knowing the scout's name also impresses the adult leaders and makes them feel a lot more confident in yo