Beyond the game itself, the Super Bowl includes a halftime performance. It is a massive cultural moment where a globally recognized artist performs in front of one of the largest audiences of the year. It is one of the few times when music, pop culture, and the internet all collide at once.

This year, that halftime performer was Bad Bunny.

When you send your child to Stomping Ground, you are trusting us with what matters most to you. Families are as important to the magic and impact of camp as campers and counselors. The trust you place in us and the conversations you continue at home give these lessons life beyond the bunk and the grove.

We do not know how to “fix” the internet. We do not know exactly how the world will shape our kids. But we do know that when families, campers, and staff approach the world together with humble curiosity, pausing, questioning, reflecting, and trying again, we give children tools to navigate complexity, to listen, and to act with empathy.

Picking a session is more than just finding dates that work for your family. It’s also huge to find the program that is best for your camper(s).  Each program is built with a different purpose in mind, and we encourage you to talk to your camper about what they want from this summer with us.

I started to reflect on the movie’s themes: the incredible potential it—and other prequels like it—have to inspire humble curiosity.

Daniel (he/him) is coming to us from Indiana, and he was born in Ohio. Daniel is a self-proclaimed hype man. He comes from a background in theater, having spent the first couple years of college majoring in performance

In this post, Laura shares her mission to bring more kids to Camp Stomping Ground, where they can experience genuine, unstructured play and learn independence—a freedom modern kids often miss. She discusses Jonathan Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation, which identifies overprotective parenting and smartphone dependency as sources of growing anxiety in children and advocates for reclaiming free play and autonomy. Camp Stomping Ground, founded on similar principles, provides kids the space to be messy, make choices, and face conflicts, all of which build resilience and social skills.

When we approach conflict with curiosity rather than fear, and when we align ourselves with models that focus on restoration and regeneration, we open the door to profound change. And it’s in these small spaces, with the next generation of leaders, that we can begin to build a more just, more resilient world—one conflict, one conversation, one community at a time.

Check out the fourth season of Building A Stomping Ground where Maddy interviews the 10 Non-profit leaders that we partner with to get kids to camp each summer. Through intimate conversations, listeners gain insight into the crucial work these organizations undertake, the barriers they encounter, and the transformative power of adopting an abundance and partnership mindset.