Camp Fire USA

March 18, 2010

[Kansas City, Mo.] –March 18, 2010, marks Camp Fire USA's 14th annual Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®. This annual letter-writing campaign to honor children has been deemed an overwhelming success by child care experts, educators, celebrities, leaders, parents and kids everywhere.

Research shows that simple words of encouragement and compassion can make a difference in a child's life. Putting those words into a letter allows the recipient to hang onto those encouraging words, and return to them for inspiration and guidance, often for years to come.

This is the cornerstone of Camp Fire USA's Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®: communicating to America's most precious resource – our youth – how valuable and absolutely incredible they are.

Absolutely Incredible Kid Day®, celebrated annually on the third Thursday in March – March 18, 2010– is Camp Fire USA's national call to action asking adults to write letters of love and support to youth – sons and daughters, nieces and nephews, neighbors, even kids they don't know. This national campaign to honor children has been recognized as an event to inspire adult-to-child interaction.

Absolutely Incredible Kid Day® has touched more than 600 million people in the 14 years since its inception. Its supporters include national figures such as former Presidents George W. Bush and William J. Clinton; American hero, John Glenn; family authority, Sylvia Rimm, Ph.D.; and sports heroes Jerry Rice and Jeff Gordon. Read celebrity letters. 

Throughout the country, Camp Fire USA councils will celebrate Absolutely Incredible Kid Day® locally with a variety of unique events, including the Adopt-a-School project, fundraisers and delivery of bibs to newborns. To get involved with Absolutely Incredible Kid Day® in your community, contact your nearest Camp Fire USA council.

Nationally, the goal of Absolutely Incredible Kid Day® is for every child to receive a letter. It can be left on a pillow, mailed, stuck in a lunch box, e-mailed, read at school, read over the phone or read in person. Camp Fire USA wants parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, neighbors, educators, mentors and all adults to participate.

Help Camp Fire USA celebrate America's children by writing a letter to the kids in your life. It's a simple gesture whose impact can last a lifetime.

For nearly a century, Camp Fire USA has changed young people’s lives. We offer girls and boys, age’s birth to 21, opportunities to learn and play together in comfortable settings. Through their interaction and involvement with Camp Fire USA, they build confidence, independence and develop an awareness of who they are and who they can become. They learn to protect nature by discovery, curiosity, compassion and concern for the environment. As Camp Fire USA continues to strengthen youth and families the benefit can be seen in local communities. Camp Fire USA, with national headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, provides all-inclusive, coeducational programs, providing 30 million program hours each year, in hundreds of communities across the United States. For more information, visit www.campfireusa.org .