Re: Advice Needed: Good News & Bad News
Kipp Davis (paintre@U.WASHINGTON.EDU)
Wed, 14 Sep 1994 12:54:48 -0700
On Tue, 13 Sep 1994, Cindi Leiser wrote:
> BAD NEWS: I realize that we should really have 3 Wolf dens with 7 boys
> in each den, and 6 registered leaders (two for each den), right? Our
> first meeting is this Thurs. night (Sept. 15). Jan and I had
> temporarily "split" the boys into two dens of 10 each. We had planned
> to meet at the same facility at the same time and always have 2 parents
> to help us. That way, we could break into four groups of 5 for
> projects. Jan is a great helper, but she prefers to take more of a
> hands-on role and does not feel comfortable speaking to groups or
> "being in charge" (even though I know she'd be good at it).
If you can get 2-4 parents to agree to help on a regular basis, you can
explain to them that in order for the Council to allow you to continue,
that you need to have them fill out this form, ...just a formality,
really, and you will have them work with these boys in that corner of the
room and call it Den 1 and they can get a uniform with "DEN 1" on it.
Of course, you and Jan will be the REAL leaders ;-) and plan the
activities for each meeting, until they realize that they can do it on
their own...
From my own experience, it wasn't a lack of commitment to the ideal that
prevented me from wanting to help, it was a lack of confidence in being
able to lead a group of Cub Scouts... what did I know about Scouting?
Encourage your "helpers" to get trained, and I'd bet all of a sudden
you'll have committed leaders.
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