FILE- In this July 20, 2018, file photo, children gather at their respective cabins and get ready for the day's activities during a four-week summer camp session at Camp Sea Gull near Arapahoe, N.C. About 90 percent of the nearly 8,400 sleep away camps counted by the American Camp Association are now device free, though some allow limited time with screenless iPods and other internet-free music players. (Gray Whitley/Sun Journal via AP, File)
NEW YORK: If teens are so attached to their phones and all things connected, why do so many of them wind up in no-device summer camps with smiles on their faces?
Thirteen-year-old Daniela Blumenfeld of Scarsdale, New York, just finished her fifth summer at sleepaway camp with no devices beyond a simple iPod. “I didn’t really miss my phone,” she said, especially given camp distractions like banana boating – that is, riding a yellow, banana-shaped inflatable towed by a motorboat.
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