The abbreviated camps are praised by experts: « In the old days, young people were not asked »
Camps|Experts are not worried that staying outside the home is difficult for some young people.
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The Ylöjärvi Parish organizes Ripple Camps as hybrid camps because for some young people a week away from home is too challenging.
Experts consider flexible camp arrangements as a positive sign of the needs of children and young people.
Lack of experience, corona pandemia and neuropsychiatric disorders are affected by the difficulty of staying overnight stays.
Camp Changing to young people’s needs is a good thing, say the experts interviewed by HS.
Morning paper told on Sundaythat the Ylöjärvi parish organizes ripple camps as hybrid camps, because for some young people a week away from home is too challenging. At the hybrid camp, the first few days are gathering in the youth room in the center of Lake Ylöjärvi and only part of the days are at the camp.
The story sparked a lively conversation where many adults were amazed at the solution.
However, experts see the hybrid camp only as positive. Mannerheim League for Child Welfare Parenting Specialist Let the Puusniekan In the opinion of the flexible rip camp arrangements, the needs of children and young people are listened to more than before.
« In the old days, these were not asked, but just put it in the camp. Just as before, there have been children and young people who have been very difficult for a week to leave home. »
Also the Deputy Chief of the Children’s Neuropsychiatry Unit Riikka Riihonen considers the hybrid pendant school as a smart and child -friendly solution. Children should not be forced to stay if the idea is unbearable to them, he says.
« After all, staying at that time is not a key thing, but participating in everything together, forces and interest. »
Why Overnight outside of your home is it difficult for some young people? Puusniekka thinks that one reason is simply a lack of overnight experience.
« Parents may no longer send their children to grandma or relatives for a long time. I think that this is probably part that families are more and more alone and there are fewer natural support networks, » says Puusniekka.
According to Riikonen, overnight stays may have been missed by the contemporary pairs of corona pandemia.
« The current 15-year-olds were ten years old when Korona came. Then you couldn’t really go for a couple of years to any night villages.
However, both Riikonen and Puusniekka remind you that there are also many young people for whom the camp is not a particularly big challenge. For some camp conditions, some experience has gained, for example, in a hobby from a young age.
Causes In addition to inexperience, there is a long list for the challenge of overnight stays: experiences of loneliness or outwardness and being bullied can raise the threshold to height, Puusniekka lists. According to him, temperamental traits also affect how the idea of a week’s camp canvas feels.
Riihonen adds to the list of young people’s generalized anxiety and depression symptoms, which may not allow the resources of the week to camp. Puusniekka and Riihonen also today mention better conscious neuropsychiatric disorders, such as an ADHD or autism spectrum.
« I work with neurorated children and young people, and such systems with flexibility are a great opportunity for them, » Riihonen rejoices.
If At home, there is a child or young person who is in two stages of venture to the camp, Puusniekka encourages you to organize training opportunities where a young person can try out an overnight stay outside the home. The camp organizer may also be in contact.
« In my experience, the organizers have a great motivation to have a safe experience for every young person in a pendant school, » Puusniekka says.
Riihonen and Puusniekka thus do not consider the challenges of staying overnight to be a worrying sign.
« There is no law or rule that you have to have a night out by a certain age, » Riihonen sums up.
