Boy Scout Relevancy After 100 Years
Today I saw an article in Wired Magazine by Dave Banks entitled After 100 Years, Are The Boy Scouts Still Relevant?
I think the answer lies in the last paragraph.
I asked some of my friends from my Scouting experience if they still believed in the Boy Scouts’ mission. “Kids are surrounded by plenty of opportunities to make the wrong decisions; to experience the negative. Scouting stacks the deck for a positive experience - adults who are interested in providing kids a safe environment to learn and have fun, exposure to new things, to the outdoors & hopefully a set of experiences that they’ll use for the rest of their lives whether that manifests itself in good friends, valuable skills, a first shot at leading a team or just a good memory or two,” says Troy Trybom, an Eagle Scout and father in Stilwell, Kansas. “Probably most important to me was that my Dad was there with through my entire time in Scouting. We spoke about and reminisced about Scouts until the day he passed away. I wouldn’t trade my time & memories of scouting for anything.”
A better case for relevancy is difficult to make.
Be sure to read the whole article. It’s quite good.
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Wow. Great post Andy! Yes, Scouting is still very relevant, and one of the few remaining organizations where people try to adhere to a higher code of behavior. Just take a little trip to the soccer park on any weekend and you’ll see what I mean.
As the daughter of a Boy Scout and the mother of one, the memories of shared experiences are priceless. Somehow watching the sunrise together on a camping trip sure beats sitting in the living room playing video games!