The latest reason to send a teen to summer camp? No cellphones.
There is one day that stands out among Kate Kubacki's favorite memories from summer camp. It happened two years ago, when she was 16; she was with a group of fellow teens in leadership training to become counselors at Camp Tecumseh YMCA in Brookston, Indiana.
'We were all together in the party room, just talking, hanging out, playing Uno, having so much fun,' Kubacki says. She looked around at her camp friends and thought: This is happening because no one is on their phone. 'I just sat there for a moment and I thought: Wow, we would never get this close; we would never have these random conversations about our schools or our favorite movies or these funny little moments,' she says. 'If we'd had our phones, we would have been on them.'
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