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Good points. I agree that it is important that the scouting program does not to a back seat to anything. Scouts should not play football in place of working on advancement or getting the job done. Work first, then play. The program has to be defined and backed when having sports a part of it. Our troop makes sure it plays one game each week during our meetings for the regular school year. This is not always something like basketball or dodgeball, many times its games of tag, steal the bacon and some games taken from some scout handbook. During the summer, and once every other month we hav
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I have no problems with adult leaders participate in a game with kids; however, they have to realize the size differences and adjust accordingly. Our ex-scoutmaster is a man who weighs in about 260? He participated in dodgeball. He "nailed" several of the boys point-blank with all of his might. These are 11-13 years old, one of whom happened to be my son. The man is 200 lbs heavier than my son and to have this guy hit my son near the groin put me over the top that night! All that he or anyone his size has to do is to hit a young man's head the wrong way and it will pratically have the
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Oh, the backlash against competition. My kids can't play dodgeball at school because it makes some kids "feel bad." Then there are the games in which "no score is kept." Probably some of this is a response to the sports fanatics who scream, "Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser." Back in the day, we used to compete at everything. Who could run fastest, who could spit farthest, who could read more (yep), and whose mom made the best cookies. I was dead slow in a sprint but that never hurt my self-esteem. I did discover that I could run farther tham most of my friends so -
I believe most of your replies fit in the order of a line being drawn in order to segregate aggressive combative activities(un scoutly) to non agressive (scoutly). I find this drawing of lines between what should be defined as good or ungood for the individual left up to that of the individual and parents. To play the devils advocate, we should disallow board games such as chess and risk which demonstrate combative tactical situations. Dodgeball of course should be out of the question. Order of the arrow should be restricted in their dance re enactments as to not provide any combative feelings
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Suggestions please - first troop camp experience for 2nd - 4th graders
Twocubdad replied to AnneinMpls's topic in Summer Camp
In my humble opinion, it sounds to me like you've planned a really fun weekend -- for the adults. A driving tour of pioneer farms? An architectural tour of old CCC cabins? I would be facinated, but I doubt my Scouts would be. Try and make the stuff more hands-on and active. On the farm tour, can they get out and grind corn or milk a cow? At day camp this year, at the nature station we had rubber models of animal paws and made tracks in the sand. The boys made plaster casts of the tracks. Dismembered animal parts, playing in the sand, slopping plaster all over -- a Cub Scout trifecta!
