Mental Health Awareness, moms and summer camp
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National Mental Health Information Center
A mother's take on summer camp
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Hee hee. Take a shower every day!? Brush teeth every day!???? Bwah ha ha. Funny guy. We try to get the Scouts to take at least one shower on Friday before we go home :-)
First time I went to camp I never opened my suitcase. Not once. That was nine year old church camp. I never felt at home on the range. My first two summers at boy scout camp we in a provisional troop with a 16 year old SM. Those were the grow up or die years :-) Anyway, I didn't develop a lot sensitivity to those kinds of issues.
I'm not very good at soothing mom's quivering worries. Either she wants her son to grow up or she doesn't. It's a decision. I've always had an ASM who is a lot more sensitive that I am. The younger Scouts always go to him. Older Scouts always come to me about leadership, problems and outdoor stuff. You are probably much more sensitive than I am. I even have letters of documentation about how insensitive, inflexible, indifferent intransigent and rigid I am. Sort of like a pot left on the range too long and then boils over. Oh well.
The goto mom is a great idea. I sort of used my ASM for that, but I like the idea of moms talking to moms. There is a whole range of ideas you could use to make this work. Sort of like where the dear and the antelope play.
Keep the good stuff coming.
Posted by: Larry Geiger | March 08, 2011 at 10:11 AM