[MR] Activitys (was Teen Abuse...)

[M'lady Foxy]

 Heres another idea ... ask the teens what or how they'd like to be involved!Maybe gear activitys towards that... we have a teen in my house camp and have never seen him in activity room.. he's busy doing other things ... no ones made mention of classes either .. most do not have an age limit.I fully believe that family vactions that provide a chance for learning are the best vacations in more ways then one.

Medb Ceitinn




--- On Thu, 8/14/08, jon <tradplayer at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: jon <tradplayer at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [MR] Activitys (was Teen Abuse...)
> To: atlantia at corwyn.net, "atlantia: atlantia.sca.org" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 1:08 PM
> Greetings to all in the Merry Rose.    I'm loving this
> discussion...I have
> always felt that the SCA will see it's best days when
> we figure out how to
> fully incorporate our kids into the life of the Society.
> 
> 3 brief comments.
> 
> -    Seems to me that one of the  real issues here might
> lie in correcting
> in the latent hypocrisy that lets a middle-aged newbie,
> fresh from the couch
> potato farm, wander on to a rattan field  barely knowing
> which end of the
> weapon to hold, while in the same breath making a fully
> enculturated  16 or
> 17 year old kid, who grew up in the SCA (one or both
> parents being
> experienced combatants if not belted in some manner) fool
> around with
> boffers.   Realize that  "legal adult" status is
> indeed a valid issue but
> that's why the parents are there.... there are tons of
> martial arts schools
> and fencing salles' that cater to the young bloods
> without watering down the
> art.
> 
> -   Other words that come to mind:
> "mentoring"
> "page"
> "squire" (in the period sense, not current SCA
> sense)
> 
> See my first comment for possible application.    Having
> real, method-based,
> incentive-driven training programs would be key to making
> this work.   As a
> former church youth leader and someone who works on
> occasion  with kids in
> mundane martial arts  I can say that you only get out of
> them what you put
> into them.
> 
> 
> my thoughts....
> 
> Jon
> 
> Jonathan Foor
> 
> SCA:
> 
> Jonathan Fuhr
> or
> Colgrim the not-as-pious-as-he-used-to-be
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