Teen Weight Loss Camp

Camp Pocono Trails is the premiere teen weight loss camp in the United States. If your child needs to get their weight loss habits under control, the summer is a perfect opportunity. While most teens are sitting around the house engaging in mindless eating all summer, your child can attend a teen weight loss camp and learn healthy habits to last a lifetime.

Investing in a Teen Weight Loss Camp Experience

A teen weight loss camp can be just as beneficial as placement at the right school during the school year. As parents, our job is to guide our children into adulthood. During the school year, we can be confident that our children are being academically enriched and they are gaining the skills they need to be successful in the workplace when it comes to reading, writing, mathematics and more.

But what about soft skills that children need to ensure a successful transition to adulthood? The schools do not teach these skills. This is where summer camp can provide additional learning opportunities and experiences that a school cannot. At Camp Pocono Trails, we pride ourselves in providing these types of experiences and learning opportunities for our campers.

For example, lunches at most schools are not the best. As a father of two teens, I can tell you that my children often pick pizza, hamburgers, french fries, and desserts for their school lunches. Rarely does the school teach about calories in and calories out.

Teen Weight Loss Camp Picks Up Where Schools Leave Off

An investment in a summer for your child at a teen weight loss camp can bridge the gap between a school education and a life skill education that Camp Pocono Trails provides.  In addition to not teaching proper dietary habits, schools have failed to keep up with advances in technology.  Schools fail to educate children about missed learning opportunities that can result from surfing the web, being on your cell phone, or playing video games all weekend.

Gone are the days of neighborhood play where kids would get together for pickup games of basketball, running around the neighborhood playing made-up games or hide and go seek.

A teen weight loss summer camp is the perfect opportunity to address these soft skills in a structured format. And no camp in the world does this better than Camp Pocono Trails. While a typical summer camp can provide a reset opportunity, what long-term effect will this have if your child simply goes back to the same routine?

This is why at Camp Pocono Trails we focus on the transition home and the future. Not only do we eat right and exercise every day, but we also teach our campers why this is an important skill to continue when you go back home. Campers learn the value of watching their food intake and ensuring that they participate in enough physical activity to burn off the calories they consume.

Teen Weight Loss Camp Addressing Online Activities

Campers in our technology track learn how to balance their social life along with being online, video games, and interacting with others through their cell phone. When you consider the amount of time your child likely spends interacting on the cell phone, you have to also consider the amount of missed face-to-face social opportunities. This is why summer camp is so great. Every child hands in their cell phone to attend Camp Pocono Trails and must interact with others in a face-to-face manner, therefore learning how to read facial expressions and other non-verbal communication.

Young people that miss these opportunities will be at a severe disadvantage when entering the workforce and spending eight hours or more per day in an office setting where they have to interact and socialize with others. While any camp can provide a social setting, campers at Camp Pocono Trails get to experience socialization with licensed counselors and other qualified mentors by their side. At Camp Pocono Trails we provide a supportive, nurturing, home-like environment that other camps simply cannot recreate.