I've been taking lessons at WEC for at least a year I absolutely love it, the instructors are…read moreamazing, kind and very supportive when you get there the horses aren't already ready for you, you get to learn how to care for the horses such as picking their hooves tacking up and riding Abby is absolutely fantastic as a instructor and what horse you ride is determined by your riding experience I've rode more then 8 horses here and all are amazingly trained and experienced, great place for kids and adults to learn how to ride! Offers both English and western riding, 10/10 would recommend!

My daughter has gone to a summer camp there the last three years and she always enjoys it. Her love…read moreof horses, and knowledge of how to care for them, has grown a great deal.

I'll start with this. My kids wake up at 7 for school, and go to bed at 8, they are used to good…read moresleep. They had to be up at 6 to leave by 7. And get to camp at 7:30. They were absolutely EXHAUSTED. They came home filthy every day. That was tough. We were rushing to get showers in, a good dinner and let them relax a bit and they just melted down almost every night. My kids are 7 & 9 and my friends had the same experience with older and younger ones. I would not recommend the camp simply out of that fact. My kids were dead on the final day. Total exhaustion. That said, I'll address the "mess of 2022" known as pickup line. I'm not sure I was a fan, I definitely wasn't, but my friend had her kids there the week prior to me and she warned me. It took me 30-40 minutes each day to get through the line. Let's be real, not super Eco friendly, but it is what it is. Browns ferry Park doesn't have much parking and it's a busy summer destination as the Tualatin river is there for paddle boarding, kayaking, canoeing and swimming. I didn't mind waiting, as my fuo time job IS my kids, and I got most of a day for a break. I watched Virgin River on Netflix while I waited and watched the whole current season. That said, it's tough on working parents. The camo itself was fantastic. The kids had a blast everyday. For kids going solo, it seems like they didn't get as much attention or response from counselors, like my son said he didn't think he could ask for help at pottery. He's shier with adults he doesn't feel as comfortable as some kids asking for help. So he didn't get as much out of the camp as my daughter. All in all I think they had a good time and it was run well.

Willowbrook art camp sent emails about canceling or early dismissal due to heat. It's summer!…read moreAnyway, I can see how this would be ok with a stay at home parent at the ready to pick up, or if you have a nanny...but if you work and you have to actually go to work, this would not be a good option. Luckily, I can cancel tomorrow's meeting, so I can pick up child early. ALSO, pick up line takes forever...I mean forever. The attendants are apathetic and unfriendly. I'm writing this review 35 mins in line...no end in site. I wonder if they've sent her to extension? Hope she's having fun.

My kiddos enjoy Royal Ridges and participate in the Giddy Up and Horseback riding camps…read more Royal Ridges is a great place and our homeschooling family enjoys the all-day camp which gives them a full day of play and learning. I didn't give a 5 star because communication from staff needs improvement. We're finishing the fall camp and a lot of last minute details are coming later than they should.

If you need your kids to go out while you work and let them have fun during summer this is the…read moreplace to go. They make sure your kids drink water and that they are safe at all times. The games and activities they do are creative and amazing. The counselors are super nice. My kid said he wanted to go back next summer!

Ballyntyne Learning farm is a favorite summer activity of ours. This camp embraces nature in a…read moretrue hands-on way. I knew my daughter had an amazing educational experience when she came home and began to elaborate on her learning. Kiely is an incredible teacher who has a true passion of early childhood education and the experience of nature and the learning that can come from it.

We love Ballyntyne Learning Farm. A very positive and welcoming place that offers so much fun and…read morelearning for children.

We had such high hopes for this summer camp and looked forward to it for over a month. Yes the…read moreexperience being on a farm was good for our kids but the owner, Stephanie was a nightmare. The way in which she spoke to my kids, her teenage staff members and me as a parent was absolutely appalling to say the least. Her attitude in person and via email was not professional AT ALL and I was disgusted by her behavior. I feel bad for her staff members who have to deal with that every day. I will not be recommending this camp to anyone and my kids will not be enrolling again. It's too bad it ended up this way, we spent a lot of money for my kids to be picked up crying everyday because of her.

My kids have attended OMF for many years and it is their favorite camp. My older daughter is now a…read moreJr Counselor and is learning great leadership skills and responsibility. It is one of the most reasonably priced camps in the city and it gets "city" kids outside, taking care of farm animals, something they wouldn't normally get exposed to. They also get to learn to ride a horse which is a bonus. The farm is on a beautiful piece of property in Corbett (there is a bus so you don't have to drive out twice a day) and there are tons of animals, barns, a small schoolhouse and a farm store. My kids only got to pick one camp this summer and it was Old McDonalds Farm, without question.

So my understanding is that it's a hit or miss depending on location and depending on the program…read more We registered for a week long camp at the SE location and it was canceled BY EMAIL on Saturday night before the Monday start date due to low registration. So basically we were left with no options to switch to a different location on such a short notice. This is considering we could have been warned at least a couple of days prior so we could have other options. Very inconsiderate of people's time and disorganized.

I enrolled my 9 yo for the 2017 Winter break camp in NW. First the camp location changed two days…read morebefore the camp was about to start. Thankfully within NW, else we wouldve dropped. Secondly the camp was on Mechanics, engineering, Robotics and programming. And none of these were exercised at the camp. Im not sure if this has something to do with the location centre (Xstream learning centre). Day 1 and 2 the kids got to do some circuit building with the basic (very basic) Littlebits kid. It was boring and a repeat for my son and he spent most time playing Minecraft on the computer! Day 3 and 4 was supposed to be programming basics but instead they were playing with 3D pens. Not sure how much of engineering skill was used in the 3D drawings. My 9 yo treated it like a game! I wish we had known this before enrolling! Dont think we would ever want to go back. Wish PDX had better STEM camps for kids who really want to do something.

I can appreciate the enthusiasm a parent might have for this program...but I also suppose it's time…read morefor someone to interject a little objectivity. First off, having raised a daughter single-handedly and also having coached girls youth sports for over a decade, I completely support these kinda camps. As a matter of fact, many kids that I know did School of Rock down in the SF Bay Area, and they were quite awesome and inspired by it. THAT is a great kid's rock program. Sadly, despite its connections to Carrie and all of that....this camp is an utter mess. That doesn't mean the kids didn't have a blast, and it doesn't mean it's a ripoff (at $400 for a daycamp week it's a deal, actually). And it doesn't mean the staff aren't great folks who are really enthusiastic and caring. What it means is....the program is a mess. It bites off way more than a youngster can chew in some ways, and seemingly fails to address some very basic, basic musical concepts which certainly should be introduced in a weeklong, 8-hour/day program. No parent or relative likes to see their kids eat it onstange....but most of the performances I have witnessed were truly cringe-inducing. Again, this is not to be mean, but rather to note that it was obvious that a lotta basic stuff was not properly presented to the campers. A few examples: 1) they seemed divided into bands by age group, not musical experience. As a result, no band was really minimally solid, even the older girls. This is neither fair to kids with some experience, nor to kids with little. 2) the camp had the girls write and perform an original song. Great idea from a certain perspective...but, consider that you had a large number of kids who knew nothing about music (beyond listening to it) prior to their attendance, and this was WAY too lofty a goal. 3) The camp claimed they had teachers for all instruments ~ vocals, bass, drums, keyboard. Exactly what their definition of experienced teachers means is lost on me; most groups did not even have full instrumentation (particularly the absence of bass player ~ even when a group had 2 or 3 guitarists !) and the drumming (something which a pre-teen can grasp very readily) was unspeakable. Vocalists were clearly unaware/unfamiliar with how to sing in tune with the key of the song. And some songs were in a terrible key for the singer's range. All of this is really BASIC stuff ....which is very typical middle-schooler music class fare (when MS's had funded music programs, that is); and is easily presentable and grasp-able by a pre-teen. Basic musical form, playing a 2-chord song for a beginner group vs. a 6-chord song for advanced, how a drummer can keep a simple and steady beat so everyone doesn't fall apart, etc. It is a matter of the counselors/managers/teachers identifying what the camper is capable of, what they can bite off...and then helping to mold the musical experience/pieces to their ability. It is THIS which instills confidence. This sort of awareness was clearly absent at this camp, however. The camp seemed way more focused on the style of the gurl rocker than on really teaching the kids anything substantial. That is too bad, because at the end of the session, the performances did not display confidence, nor these kids owning themselves in any way. They were tentative, chaotic, and lacked confidence. No doubt the kids had fun (most of them, the ones who would tend to be more outgoing and OK without direction) and they made friends and will have happy experiences to remember...but if your expectation was for them to have an experience where they'd learn something about music.....this camp is significantly lacking in its ability to deliver that. I would not recommend it; there are far better examples nationwide....Idaho, Seattle, and the SF Bay Area all have SOR's and I know the Seattle and SF Bay Area ones are pretty much equally attended gender-wise. It wouldn't be a bad idea for the folks at this camp to check out some of the more together establishments offering similar youth rock experiences.

Why wasn't this around when I was younger??…read more CALLING ALL AGING RIOT GRRRLS: Send your little sisters (biological and non) to Girls Rock Camp. I saw the preview for the new documentary, "Girls Rock!", based on this camp, and was almost moved to tears. You will have to excuse my sentimentality, but my own trajectory was radically changed by bands like Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney as a teenager. Their music and the underground feminist sub-culture surrounding it made me feel empowered and motivated to change the world, inspired me to apply to my alma mater, and is one of the reasons I'm who I am today... and the preview for the film brought it all back. The Girls Rock camp is for girls ages 7-17 and their mission is to help girls build self-esteem through music creation, performance and workshops. Beth Ditto of the Gossip and Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney have both been guest teachers at the camp. How cool is it to watch little girls screaming out Bikini Kill lyrics? At lunch, they can watch performers like the Decemberists, the Gossip, Peaches, and more. (!!) Got this from their website: A sample day at the Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls 9:00-9:30 Morning Assembly 9:30-11:00 Instrument Instruction 11:00-12:30 Workshop (see sample workshop list below.) 12:30-1:30 Lunch & Visiting Band Performance 1:30-2:30 Workshop 2:30-3:15 Quiet Band Practice & Songwriting 3:15-5:00 Amplified Band Practice 5:00-5:30 Afternoon Assembly Workshops may include: Self Defense Zine Writing Song Writing Screen Printing Image and Identity Alternative Instruments What's In Your Toolbox? Electric Youth and more! And it's only $375 a week to attend their summer camp. Young girls these days are surrounded by cultural narratives that teach them their bodies are what they can offer to the world to be better-liked, that other women are not to be trusted, and that they are not skinny enough or strong enough. A camp like this has enormous potential to change lives and to foster self-determination.

Very lucky to find this daycare. Staff are wonderful- patient, caring, and flexible…read more My son and daughter love going there. Plenty of stimulating toys, games and activities and they provide meals and snacks throughout the day. We were really struggling with daycare issues and Nikki and Sarah have been so helpful and patient while we worked out the schedule.