Follow me boys, follow me!

From now on you can just call me Akela.
For my new calling is Wolf Den Mother. ha-ha.
Okay – Den Leader is probably the official title.

Now, I’m thoroughly confused about scouting.
I don’t know why.
But I think I’ve finally figured it out (mostly).
For some reason I failed to have Abe do anything in his book this summer. Fail.
My only redemption is that this fall, I assigned Abe’s monday chore to be “30 minutes of cub scouts”.
Best Chore ever in his mind.
Sometimes he has a friend over to do it with him.
Sometimes he does Faith in God book.
Sometimes it doesn’t happen – but ya know, we try.

So – I believe in the Scouting Program.

Now, I didn’t say I believe that Scouts always works
(because honestly I can see so many situations where I wouldn’t want my son to do it –
ya know – lame leaders who don’t do anything … or dumb boys who ruin it for the gang …
or having a kid who gets easily overwhelmed).

Luckily Abe has had great leaders in the ward who have been VERY organized.
Right now there are only 3 Wolfs who are all great.
And hopefully Abe is surviving even though he does sometimes get frustrated.

But having young men learn new skills and accomplish things is a grand plan for their self-esteem.
Plus, it gives them something to enjoy other than b-ball and video games
(except why in the world is there a video game belt loop?).
I believe busy boys will do better staying out of trouble.
And scouts is a good kind of busy.

Since I’ve gotten this calling, I’ve had this old-fashioned *Awesome* tune in my head. Gotta love “Follow Me Boys” movie with Fred MacMurray. In fact, I think we’ll watch it this week.