Re: nightlight on campouts
Byron Hynes (bph@SA-YK.CIRCLEAIR.CA)
Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:19:10 -0600
This is why God gave us glow sticks.
They're cool, the kids love them, and gosh-darn, it just can't get
switched off at bed time. :-)
- Byron
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Byron Hynes, MCSE http://www2.internorth.com/~bph
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
bph@internorth.com / bph@sa-yk.circleair.ca / bph@ntnet.nt.ca
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael N. Kazarinoff [SMTP:mnk1@cornell.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 1997 6:41 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L
> Subject: nightlight on campouts
>
> Hey, happy campers, maybe some of you have dealt with this situation.
> Our
> eleven year old Tenderfoot, often has nightmares. At home, he keeps a
> small nightlight on and when he wakes up from a bad dream he can often
> get
> himself back to sleep. However when he doesn't have the light, he is
> disoriented, gets out of bed and frantically crashes around trying to
> escape from the dream and looking for help. This obviously becomes a
> major
> problem on camp-outs. His patrol buddies are very understanding and
> would
> be happy to sleep with a small light on if it would keep him from
> waking
> them up with cries and thrashing around, sometimes even leaving the
> tent.
> I can't beleive this is a unique problem- can anyone who can "shed
> some
> light" on it?
>
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