In this cyber age of the Remote – where multi-tasking, declining attention spans and thrill-a-minute, instant self-gratification aspirations rule – families increasingly search for the instant-ready answer to their children’s summer recreation dreams. Make it the experience of her young life but do it quick – becomes the operating dictum.

Fragmentation and busyness define the Age of the Remote. Multiple jobs, multiple sets of parents, multiple specialists in education and health, multiple offerings of extracurricular activities, multiple TV offerings on multiple screens, fast food, MTV and video games – all of these fragment our lives and put pressure on us to do it quick.

In order to survive in this brave, new world, old school (traditional) camps dedicated toward instilling core values in their charges in the course of proven, step-by-step, integrative multiple week programs, give way to fragmented one and two week quickie visits; or else they fade away into real estate developments and get replaced by a myriad of quickie specialty (fragmented) offerings in everything.