Feb 5, 2011

BYU Pow Wow: He didn't come after, was at home

One of our annual events in Scouts was to take the boys to the BYU annual Pow Wow. It was always a fun three weeks and it only took me a year to realize that I would need a rather strong incentive for the boys to get them to complete all three badges by the time the Pow Wow ended on the third Saturday. I decide that I would treat them to pizza on the way home from that third week if they gave me all three badge cards completely signed as passed off as we would meet at the vehicles. I don’t remember having to ever leave anyone out of that pizza trip. However there was one year when I was waiting for the last boy and he never came to the car. I was of course starting to get worried when we decided to call his parents and see if they would know where he might have gone. As it turned out they had come and picked him up after the first hour because campus security had caught him stealing something in the bookstore. Needless to say it ended up being a good lesson for the other boys and for myself in watching them more carefully after they left for class. The only way I could really do that though was to have them sign up as buddies so that they would have a person to help keep them on course. The yong man also learned an important lesson that day in the fact that he not only never finished the three badges he was also embarrassed when the security only called his parents and would not settle for anyone else that day. I was glad they did because the lesson was learned.