Bent Arrow wrote:Great stuff. Wish there was more of this. Took my young fella to the local scout group and it was pretty soft. He lost interest really quickly. Pushed two and half boxes of 22lr ammo down range at a gong with him yesterday. The grinning hasn't stopped yet. I expect you'll get the same reaction from the scouts.
Noisydad wrote:Bent Arrow wrote:Great stuff. Wish there was more of this. Took my young fella to the local scout group and it was pretty soft. He lost interest really quickly. Pushed two and half boxes of 22lr ammo down range at a gong with him yesterday. The grinning hasn't stopped yet. I expect you'll get the same reaction from the scouts.
Put a uniform on then. It'd be the best years you and your boy will have and you get to toughen the troop up a bit.
Kids (particularly boys) of Scout age need actual, real adventure in their life. It's quite important for mental development as this is the age where they're discovering a world beyond home and where they find out what they can manage by themselves. The need for adventure is why boys are so attracted by the popular computer games they seem addicted to but I've found if you put real adventure in front of them and better still train them to plan and run their own, they will drop the computer games like a hot potato!
Last weekend we had 3 patrols take part in a state wide competition hike in the Tallarook State Forest involving plotting a page of grid references on a map to get them around as many check point/activity sites as possible. They hiked 27km over the 2 days carrying everything on their backs. One of my patrols scored equal gold putting them in the top 8% in the state. There were 150 odd patrols!