Spirit Rider (Rest)
To answer your question, I don't know about older boys, but our younger boys is under
1% to ask for recreation
John
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LittleJohn FCF July 10th 99, Hudson bay group
Royal Ranger Straight Arrow Lt. Cmdr
Maryville 7
Royal Rangers May 96
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:40:39 Spirit Rider wrote:
>All,
>How many times does your boys ask "Can we have recreation?",
>even before you start the pledges? My boys do it about 90%
>of the time. When I get to Rangers recreation is the last thing
>on my mind. I spoke to the boys about this last night.
>As I explain to them the Leaders Manual states you should get
>only 15 minutes of recreation, but most Wednesday nights you get
>more the 15 minutes. I went on to say:you guys have time to play
>before shcool, one or two recesses (sp?), a hour for lunch and more
>then 15 miuntes for your recreation here. Then you come to Rangers
>and the first thing you ask is " Can we have recreation?"
>I told them, this habit needs broke. The rule we put in place is this:
>If two or more boys ask anyone of the three of us the classic question,
>they will get only fifteen minutes of recreation. If they still ask, there
>will
>be no recreation for that night. If they still ask after that, they will
>work on
>next week and so one.
>This might sound rough, but it gets old when you hear that question week in
>and week out, even before doing the pledges. I'm not saying recreation is
>bad.
>I am saying it should not be the first question out of there mouths.
>
>Later,
>Noel"Spirit Rider
>In the words of Patrick Henry: I know not what
>course others may take, but as for me, give me
>liberty or give me death.
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