Greetings All,
When it comes to advancements here is the predicament I'm in, My outpost is
5 boys. This is the whole outpost, with all of the age groups. The boys
don't want to wear the uniforms they were issued, but they want to move on to
the next level, even without completing their advancement requirements. I
was told from the Pastorship, that I am to move the boys up when they get
promoted to the next school grade, not when they turn eligible for the next
level. More often than not the boys, don't want to participate and do the
things that Rangers do. Formation takes 20 minutes to 1/2 an hour. I
thought it was supposed to take about 5 minutes tops, but they don't want to
do it properly, they interrupt, make a lot of the obscene gestures that the
wrestlers make on TV, (They are really into WWF and WCW and then this Pokemon
nonsense) Some of them come only when they want to, but then they expect me
to move them up to the next age level without them even finishing the stuff
they started.
Can anyone assist me with this? How is a person supposed to run an
outpost when there are two sets of rules that don't match. (not necessarily
contradictory, so it is not a double standard) I think that it confuses the
children? Then is the resources idea. I have a very limited budget and I
already spent just about my entire yearly budget on supplies, so that makes
it so Pow-wows are out, we have no money for them. Last year's pow-wow, we
over spent our budget by almost $200.00
and were unable to provide the things for advancements to give the child
except to tell him that he earned it. I have put myself at risk once or
twice by providing subsidies from my own pocket just so that we could order
some stuff. What I mean by this is that I have taken my own money and spent
a lot on getting things for the boys when I could have paid some of my own
bills or something. I let the bills run late. I'm not even sure how the
outpost is going to hold up for the next month while I'm out because of my
surgery. I wonder if anyone will just get so frustrated with those kids who
want to do nothing but be disruptive, not do the program and are there just
because their parent made them come.
I want nothing but the best for those boys, I go way out of my way for
them and I'm happy to do it because I don't have any children of my own. Can
anyone offer me a few pointers on how to straighten out this mess I'm in? I
am trying to run the program like it says in the book, but it keeps breaking
down somewhere. It's causing me to loose confidence in myself and question
why I even bother. I have plenty of other things I could be doing with my
time.
Can anyone help with some ideas?
Iron Mike
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