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Scoutmaster Podcast 44
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What does ‘fun’ mean? [6:35]
Email questions [11:23]
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Dude. It’s like listening to myself think. As you were speaking the same words were coming out of my mouth. Great talk.
I read AskAndy’s November 21 rant about Eagle Scout and then read this: “I totally agree Allan – adults often have a very different idea of what ‘fun’ is.” I think Andy was over the top just a little. I think that it’s much more challenging for a 13 year old to make Eagle Rank than many adults think it is.
Some of us are so old that it’s hard to remember what it was like back there 🙂
I totally agree Allan – adults often have a very different idea of what ‘fun’ is. We need to see the world from a Scout’s perspective to understand what ‘fun’ is to them. As your story recounts it is almost always linked to some challenge.
Regarding fun, I think we adults are not always a good gage of this. During our campout this past weekend to a national game preserve in our state, I got the scouts together for a night hike up to a nearby short peak. The other adults thought it would be a disaster in the dark, and did not go. The full moon was shedding a surreal light over everything, and the warm air was pleasant. The boys had to make their way through some thickets, then over a ridge, then up to the summit. I heard some discouraging words along the way, and thought to myself, “was this a mistake?” But once we reached the top, it was “Ooh” and “Aah”, and “Look at that.” We looked out over a beautiful natural vista, and I could see the satisfaction in their eyes, both because of the scene they were viewing, and the fact that they had made it, and they were together. That spelled fun to them.