The Best Summer Camps for Grownups
Want to build space rockets? Brush up on your Homer? A guide for excursions that offer a chance to disconnect at length and to play and learn.
It’s early June, which means the kids are getting excited for months of uninterrupted summer playtime and pursuits. That begs the question: Why should they get to have all the fun?
For many of those kids, a portion of that happens at summer camp. (And we had suggestions about those camps a few weeks ago.) For many grownups, a dose of summer camp-style living may be just what they need to disconnect from today’s high-speed world. There’s science to back up that recommendation: Research repeatedly shows playtime at any age brings significant mental and intellectual benefits. In fact, playtime for any animal at any age helps increase mental plasticity and cognitive function and enables the brain to more easily rewire itself as it has new experiences, Alison Gopnik, a University of California, Berkeley psychology professor, explained to me.