Parents engage kids in ‘useful’ summer camps

GURGAON: Ensuring that their children don’t wile away their time during the summer vacation, parents are once again enrolling their wards in various constructive summer camps.
Gurgaon offers endless options like horse riding, swimming, kick-boxing, pottery as well as courses for drawing, learning music or a language for the children. Several summer camps also have the option of online enrollment and payment.
Sadhana Sinha, mother of six-year-old who has joined drawing and dancing classes, said: “By being part of such classes at a young age, the child learns how to work in groups, how to interact with the teacher and also to take decisions. These courses will be very beneficial for my daughter later on in life.”
Ullawas Horse Riding School offers special courses during summer vacations with courses ranging from just a joy ride for 5-10 year-olds to basic horse riding techniques for the age group of 11 years and above. Kick-boxing, karate and martial arts classes are also being run. Children can learn anything from cricket, tennis, basket ball and skating at SportsWave, a sports academy.
Swimming courses are also very popular among children and their parents as nearly all societies have swimming pools with appointed coaches. Swimming pools at Gymkhanna Club, Sector 29 and Sector 4 have introduced a special mother and child summer package.
Radhika, a resident of Sushant Lok said, “Our family goes to the nearest club where we have a special membership. I like going to the club as I meet new people everyday and my children have many friends at the pool.”
Kingdom of Dreams has organized a distinctive summer camp targeted towards children in the age group of 8 to 16 who want to become actors or dancers. Activities provided in the camp include confidence building, voice and speech work, creative writing, posture work, creative visualization and many other theatre exercises.
“I especially loved the dance classes where they taught us steps which we have often seen on famous TV dance shows. I liked the acting classes as well and meeting actor Hussain Kuwajerwala was a pleasant surprise,” said Yash Dixit, a student at the camp.