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Nov 3, 2026
Ep. 193: Bring Out Kids' Best Behavior
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Audrey MonkeHOST
when you're training your staff, how you talk about this idea of having appropriate expectations for the child or children that you're working with.
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6:32Maria HornerGUEST
So that's so key because it always cracks me up when a counselor comes to me or to one of our other directors and is upset because they asked a group of eight-year-old boys to do something.
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6:44Maria HornerGUEST
And shockingly, the eight-year-old boys didn't drop everything that they were doing and do exactly what the counselor said in the timing that the counselor asked for it.
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6:55Maria HornerGUEST
And the counselor then gets really frustrated because their expectation of of what the camp or a group of campers is going to do did not match their experience.
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7:03Maria HornerGUEST
And so they automatically like zero to a hundred with getting frustrated or angry.
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7:09Maria HornerGUEST
And so we talk a lot about, I mean, we do all of the age characteristic stuff, you know, using resources that are available on what to expect from certain age groups.
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Onboarding New Families Part 2 - with Jackie Port and Maria Horner - The Day Camp Pod #143
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24:21Maria HornerGUEST
You said something about kids being on medication vacations for the summer and just all of your faces lit up when he said that and you all nodded.
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24:29Maria HornerGUEST
And I just, we don't call it an intake questionnaire or what do you call it at Ramacoy? The Well, we have a personality profile.
Onboarding New Families Part 1 - with Jackie Port and Maria Horner - The Day Camp Pod #142
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12:17And then in terms of kind of what you did in that first year, now that we've noticed that we need to focus more on first-time families, what are some of the things that you do to prioritize that group?
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12:29Maria HornerGUEST
So, and this is obviously I'm coming from an overnight camp experience and from an overnight camp experience where parents are not coming to my camp.
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22:20Jackie PortGUEST
So we just provide resources and the families know where to find it because they have their liaison who starts them through that whole process.