Disasters and life changes are stressors. Stressors arise when one thinks that one is unable to meet social demands, feeling that one's social role is threatened. Then the organism reacts in order to dominate the demands placed upon it. These stressors can be short or long term.
Catastrophe is a short-term stressor, which is those that represent difficult situations, competitions, or confrontational situations that cause temporary changes in an individual's behavior. Changes in life are long-term stressors, which are those that can reprogram the receiving and cause permanent changes in the behavior of the individual.
In this scenario the activity director did not take into account that these are younger children who wanna have fun for one and May not be physically able to for two with them them being younger and still having baby fat something like this may or could be rather difficult. He can not say all children should do if because all children are nog the same