Healthy Habit Camp

The country’s leading a healthy habit camp is Camp Pocono Trails. Sending your child off to high school or even young adulthood with healthy habits are one of the greatest gifts you can provide.

Certainly, healthy habits are needed now more than ever. Just consider the amount of screen time the average teenager engages in today. Studies have shown that teens spending 10 hours or more on social media or video games each day is becoming more and more the norm.

Learning New Routines at Healthy Habit Camp

At our healthy habit camp, we teach campers to be mindful of the amount of time they spend online playing video games or distracted by social media. A core concept we teach is the notion of self-regulation.

We teach our campers in the Technology Track that they need to plan out their day with a “behavior planning journal” and stick to their daily plan. In this way, the day or weekend doesn’t just get away from you. With self-regulation, you have created a plan for your free time and have executed the plan in line with your goals.

Mindful Eating at Healthy Habit Camp

Beyond activity, we also teach mindfulness regarding eating practices. Often, teenagers and young adults eat meals and snacks on the go or while on computers or watching TV. This mindless snacking is often done as much out of boredom or self-soothing than it is to combat hunger.

At Camp Pocono Trails we teach the process of mindful eating. This means paying attention to your hunger level and paying attention to your food choices. We teach campers to make better food choices and to develop a better relationship with what they eat.

For example, we teach campers that it is okay to sometimes feel hungry, or that sometimes they might confuse being hungry with being dehydrated. We also teach them how to recognize if they are using food to self soothe for another issue such as boredom, social anxiety or just feeling sad.