[MR] [Fwd: Re: Teenager abuse at Pennsic

[atlantia at corwyn.net]

Most of the time there's not much for anyone to do in the gaps 
between whatever their "item of focus" is. I spent years where I got 
to the event, fought (and occasionally looked at merchants), got 
knocked out of the tournament in two rounds, and was bored until 
feast started unless I was just hanging out with friends. And that's 
an adult situation, not a teen one.

With the introduction of youth combat, there's very little at an SCA 
event that is age-delimited. Instead of working to add youth 
activities, why not add more activities in general, and not call it a 
teen issue?

Corwyn


At 01:19 PM 8/14/2008, rapier3971 at aol.com wrote:
>I also agree we should find other things for teens to do besides 
>fighting. As a youth armored combat marshal with two 13 old twins I 
>can tell you that they get really bored when they are not fighting. 
>Most of the time there is nothing for them to do between the youth 
>tourneys at most events. A&S youth competitions are OK, but the kids 
>do the work at home not in the events. They need some activities 
>besides fighting. Right now there only three things teens can do at 
>most event, archery, youth combat and youth rapier. The last two not 
>available at all events. It would be great if event coordinators 
>would start finding?activities for kids 12 and up. Or create tasks 
>for them to volunteers maybe as retainers, messengers, etc. Face it, 
>participation for us adults would be hard if we had to drag our kids 
>with us to places they would not rather be. So far I'm lucky, they 
>both love it and I want to keep it that way.
>In service,
>Pepin de Bourgogne.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Cian Conor MacQuaid <Cian at MacQuaid.org>
>To: Merry Rose <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
>Sent: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:56 pm
>Subject: [MR] [Fwd: Re: Teenager abuse at Pennsic]
>
>
>
> > would not be especially interesting to later teens. I think rousting them
> > out of the bathhouse duirng day and evenign hours will only result in them
> > relocating to someplace else (possibly more secluded...say the swimming
> > hole) and less easily watched.
> > Axel
>
>
>I fully concur, knowing that next year we will probably be bringing a
>13yo son and a 14 yo daughter to their (and our) first Pennsic.
>
>Sir Cian
>
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