Since my son and I had such a wonderful weekend it was nice when I was informed by my wife that there would not be any school Monday. It was a good time in the old house that night. Kellen and his big talk about staying up all night because there isn’t any school tomorrow because of the Columbus Day holiday. I was looking forward to spending the morning with my son unpacking our pickup truck of the camping materials from the latest Webelos weekend. It would have been fun to go slow and discuss what happen when we used the items that we took along. Besides, I could really use the help!!! Who likes to work alone?
Once all the camping gear had been unpacked, cleaned, and repacked Kellen was going to experience the planning stages of his first over night as a Webelo . In two weeks my young son gets to over night with a Webelos partner. Parents are invited to attend but are not discourage to choose to sleep at home. It will be a good experience for my young independent son. He wants to break out so badly from the clutches of his parents yet his actions actually show a timidity that is normal and healthy yet hehas a reticent protective approach to all that is new.
So the next the next campout I get to attend the festivities but I will be sleeping in my own bed. Returning to camp to over see Kellen pack up his gear from his recent over night. Then I get to listen to his tales of the animals that they heard at night. Hopefully, he will have frightened them as much as he was frightened. He is growing so fast. Why it was only three years ago that we started all of this with the Boy Scouts. Lots of items have gone over the damn by now. Some of it is retained and practiced. Most of the moments are remembered , and some will be remember when reminded. No matter how the memory forms the best thing that can happen is to have positive memories. I see Kellen proud of his abilities among the other children. It breaks my heart as much when it fails to meet his own standards as it does when he thinks that he has failed to live up to my standard. I keep telling him to do what a willing and reasonable man would do. Kellen does not do well with reason of the mind. His reason needs a cause and effect. If it does not “cause” him any down time of any sort he will disregard all reason. IF his freedoms seem to be more regulated with less outside time and more reading and study time it slowly sinks in that his actions have caused him to lose his freedom and that “effects” him immediately. That is when he understands reason. Only after the effect has affected him.
Ya, that story was a good thought in my mind’s eye. When everyone in the family slept in today because we all thought the school would be closed because of Columbus Day. Well, I guess I can chalk up our almost embarrassing tardy moment to my quitting cigarettes. Because I do not smoke any longer my wife volunteered to smoke out side the house and not in the car when traveling. As she was standing in the backyard this morning she happened to hear the children walking by and she realized that Kellen needed to be informed of school was not closed and advised to get up from his bed. Poor Kellen… he has never been one to move to quickly in the morning… but this morning it appeared as if he was frozen in time. Even as I signed him into school he was still walking in a fog. I will endeavor to not allow that to happen to him to many more times while under my watch. I felt terrible as he walked out of sight down the hallway towards his classroom to the teacher that already thinks that Kellen’s father is not playing with a full deck. Yet, there was not a thing that I could do. My little man is growing up despite my failings. I think he will make it.
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