Can you elaborate?There is a certain style of ‘leader’ adults at my troop, which I would not say is perfect, .
Can you elaborate?
Thanks for the (balanced) reply.Most but not all have a certain way of working both with both the kids and the parent volunteers. I have no doubt that their heart is in the right place, but it can certainly come across as harsh, condescending and even in some cases verging on bullying. It is often seen as an impenetrable inner circle and the troop is their troop rather than the kids. Maybe best described as a power trip. However, these same people are giving hours and hours of their time, plus in some cases a lot of personal funds and ultimately without them the troop would fall to pieces.
Interesting.My son did cubs and was about to go up to Scouts but... found the whole badge thing boring and hated camping (not surprising as we got hit by a storm and water got into the tent.) It just didn't click with him at all.
I did cubs and scouts and it was good fun.
I would wonder what the role is in today's society.
I would wonder whether NCS is going to be a direct rival for the scouts/particularly guides. It claims to build many of the same skills through The Challenge. Met quite a lot of youngest millenials/post-millenials that have done this and it's quite compartmentalised do it over the summer, gets taken seriously by employers as proper volunteering and often the person done it comes out so pumped up and confident like Rocky they'll want to deck anyone in the workplace/volunteering world.