Re: OT - One for the fellas (serious)

Posted by ShepFL on August 29, 2004 at 06:24:14 from (155.14.26.17):

In Reply to: Re: OT - One for the fellas (serious) posted by KB on August 29, 2004 at 05:35:31:

Hey KB -
Your approach and mine are very, very similar. A spade is a spade. I have only been doing this for about 4 yrs. I was going to rmv my sons as I seen very little benefit for them - at that time the troops was nothing but an ad-hoc grabass boys night out camping club.

As an adult leader at the time I spoke with the then current scoutmaster about my dissatification and lack of direction and lack of boy leadership training within the troop.

Needless to say he did not care for my comments. About a month later at a Committee mtg. he got pi$$ed, got up yanked off his uniform shirt and threw it at me proclaiming "if others think you can be such a good leader you got job".

That night I was voted to be the Scoutmaster. That was 2 yrs. ago. Our troop is now 17 boys strong with recruiting coming up. First yr. we lost a few boys because the grabass STOPPED IMMEDIATELY. Some have since come back as they recognize the value of how the troop is being run by the boys and being managed by me and the other adult leaders. The boys now have a sense of purpose with Scouts and know how to set a course of action. They now have fun - work hard, play hard.

But that first yr. - whew !! The troop learned what is like to

a) camp without tent stakes as they were forgotten

b) have only 1 dz. eggs for a 3-day campout breakfasts with 10 boys

c) not clean pots and pans only to find that same messy gear reappear at the next campout as the ONLY cookgear

d) that sass mouth or threats will land your butt in camp all weekend plus give you time for reflection as you will be dismissed from next campout until written behavior action plan complete with apology is received.

It has been rewarding and I just want to keep it real, keep it honest and work hard, play hard.

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