Re: Meeting Night Scouts


Thats the point they never will.
If it is a troop night activity and they don't want to do it they will
just
talk or if a wide game sit down and refuse to join in to talk with their
friends.

They don't go on the camps, hikes, climbing, sailing, backwoods, cycling
etc
so will never have the responsibillity.

The thing is these kids are not "thick" IF you can get them to act right
in
their heads they are quite intellegent and scouts is a way to let off
steam
with their mates under an umberella that their parents are happy with.
i.e.
not hanging around street corners.
DaveB
West Yorks


I'm sorry Dave, I wouldn't keep them.. in the troop, I'd engineer a parting
of the waves...
it they sit down during a game... they go home; it is the programme or
nothing.

I had three older girls take me aside and say: "Eddie, the programme is
boring." I was upset, we agreed to meet and discuss
and from that we devised 'PL let Corners' It was a really positive thing.

but the kind of thing you describe is catching... it drags other kids-in...
and down.
It is easier to pull someone off of a chair than to pull someone up onto a
chair.

It is rather like when i ring to ask if kids are coming canoeing or the
like, they will ask who else is going...
I won't play that game.... I say i can't remember, but it is THEM I want to
come... it is their decision.

I would say to the whole troop: "The troop is too big, I would like a
smaller troop. Maybe what we are doing isn't to everyone's liking, maybe we
aren't meeting your needs, so if you don't want to join-in, if you have had
enough, it would be best if you slipped-off. "
And them implement it.
Offer them the chance to help plan a new programme maybe?
Or just say goodnight and goodbye.

Fin
End
Bye

Eddie Langdown GSL 16th Bermondsey, London
http://bermondseyscout.co.uk/


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