--- clint grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> But still.. what happens to boys at 14? Hormones, man!
There's more to it than that, amigo..
Look at the learning curve placed before a 14 year old
and what challange do we offer them in RR? I hope we don't
say at 14 "Be like Commander"<G>
A young RR "out-doer" can run circles around me<G>
>
> *I say, at 14 or so.. a child gains a mind of his own.
>
> If this is true, our greatest success is limited by the
> actions that appeal to a immature mind. The popular understanding
> of leadership seems to work with this mindset that does not
> question the quality or motive of why things are the way they are.
>
> Our great failure has been to hold on to the boys in the older groups.
> True, because we force them to make an awful hard choice. This should
> not be. Both options should be available simultaineously, youth and
> Rangers. But, since they are not in many cases, we have to do what we
> can to impact the boys while we can. Can't expect a boy to deny his
> hormones, to do so would be to torture him.
This second reference to "Hormones" leads me to think that the virtues
of the Ranger code don't apply to these boys.. *Why are you giveing up?
The choice the boy makes when leaveing RR at 14 is for a better life,
and nation wide it's easy to back that choice. The boys are choseing
wisely!
God bless the "Hormones" of boys and that just means greater
virtue is found in self-control and wisdom in makeing choices.
Both are learned by action and experiance gained from a hands-on
"On the job" positions in the Outpost.
In Truth.. RR don't *NEED the boys to survive!
We've built it so that MEN are important and the boys just
"attend";') (*Thin ice<G>) *It's allways been a MEN's "club".
I'd like to propose that you think of your title as "Adult facilitator
of Royal Rangers" and not *Commander. Charming as the title sounds..
It has a ring of "controller" or "big boss" and get's in the way of
thoughts like "coach" and "advisor".
A Royal Ranger is under 18. If you are older.. you are NOT a Royal Ranger
but mearly a cog in the great wheel<G> or as Sonny Green said once..
"Commanders are a dime a dozen!"
(*For those a little miffed at this thought.. check out at
yur next district Leadership event for anyone who can remember
a greater number of boys names compared to leaders names<G>)
We do not need to look at
> this as though we are losing them to youth, though it is hard not to see
> it that way, myself. We have them when they are the most impressionable.
That's my point.
It's OUR Failure not theirs!
RR needs to be able to "shift gears" and allow young men some *respect.
That all any young man wants.
> We possess a much greater potential for impacting the lives of these
> boys than any youth pastor will ever dream of. We just have to do it.
Success sells better than day dreams<G>
-=*=-
>
>
> > Taking The High Ground for Jesus
> > James Styles, " Smoke Signal"
> > Sr Commander
> > Outpost 45 Huntsville, Al
> >
>
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