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Interesting turn of events this evening. My daughter comes home and tells me she has to blow off Students’ Council at the school because she has to plan a YW activity this evening…I thought — great!!! The YW leader has taken some action to help develop my daughter the way the program is supposed to run. So, my daughter leans on me to help her with the activity — a treasure hunt. She came to me with a pre-made plan, drawn out conceptually with arrows and logical boxes for the placement and sequencing of clues. How to handle clue-stealing (teams pursuing multiple treasure routes) and how to make sure everyone gets some kind of treasure, even if they don’t find it….She picked my brain on cutely worded clues, which I helped with. She used a trick from a Sherlock Holmes movie to make the kids use the BoM to spell the final clue. With everything in hand, I dropped her off at the chapel, and arrived at the end of the night to take her home — coincidentally, to see the whole Beehive group fully engaged in the thick of the clue hunting, and excited.
On the way home she told me how it went really well.
I asked “When did the YW leader ask you to put on the activity?”
Daughter: “She didn’t ask me! We were supposed to have a meeting last Sunday to talk about doing one in late November but she forgot”
SD: “Then how did you know you could do it this evening?”
Daughter: “I just phoned her this evening and told her I was doing it, so she said OK”
I just wanted to share this…I thought it was cool how my daughter proactively handled the situation since I’ve been griping about weak programs. A few weeks ago, she complained about how boring the activities are — and often poorly planned. I remember telling her that if the YW counselor doesn’t follow-though on helping her, that she just plans one and asks if she can put it on.
It was a pleasant surprise that she did that and I only found out after the fact. And I chuckle a bit — I wonder what impact this will have on the YW’s counselor’s use of my daughter for future activities.
My daugther told me they have another one this month….implying she wants to do this again.
Now, that’s a positive Church experience!!!
Thanks for sharing that, SD. Fwiw, it’s the way things are supposed to happen (the activities planned and implemented by the YW and YM), albeit more smoothly than it did in this case.
Wow, my daughter would never be brave enough to do that. You are lucky! Nice! hehe. Way to go. Your daughter rocks! Great story, SD…thanks for sharing. Sometimes the leaders teach best by letting the kids be in charge and run things (even if that is by accident or lack of leadership skill
😳 ), it is actually the way the youth programs are supposed to run…and the youth leaders should really be there to coach.She sounds like she takes after her dad…serving with all she’s got and her service is able to benefit the lives of others in the ward! Maybe your life experiences are there to help her learn correct boundaries, be willing to serve, but make sure she doesn’t get burned out by needing to step in to cover for others in the ward who are not stepping up??
Perhaps her experiences are there to help you learn as well. I know I see things my kids are doing, and it is a reflection of me…and I can learn from their examples.
Heber13 wrote:Great story, SD…thanks for sharing.
Sometimes the leaders teach best by letting the kids be in charge and run things (even if that is by accident or lack of leadership skill
😳 ), it is actually the way the youth programs are supposed to run…and the youth leaders should really be there to coach.She sounds like she takes after her dad…serving with all she’s got and her service is able to benefit the lives of others in the ward! Maybe your life experiences are there to help her learn correct boundaries, be willing to serve, but make sure she doesn’t get burned out by needing to step in to cover for others in the ward who are not stepping up??
Perhaps her experiences are there to help you learn as well. I know I see things my kids are doing, and it is a reflection of me…and I can learn from their examples.
Oh yes, she will learn about boundaries alright. I’m sure she’ll make her own mistakes too. At times I realize I was the same kind of priesthood leader I’ve been criticizing lately. Back when I was committed it was all I did in my spare time. There are times when I think our previous hard-nut Stake presidency did me a favor by jolting me into an alternate reality about just how much sacrifice is appropriate.
SilentDawning wrote:There are times when I think our previous hard-nut Stake presidency did me a favor by jolting me into an alternate reality about just how much sacrifice is appropriate.
:thumbup: Like I said, sometimes the leaders teach us without even knowing they are doing it.
That’s the beauty of the church. And by you and your daughter reacting to ineffective leaders…that is how you help teach them!!
Yeah Heber, I might have to write that in my journal. It was near revelatory when I first wrote it. Very good. It sounds like your daughter has great potential.
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