Teaching Boys.......

[DianaB]

We have a Wednesday night progam for kids at church. For girls, it's Missionettes and for boys, it's Royal Rangers, kinda' like boy scouts. Glen has been in charge of it for years and I've stayed away, only helping when he needed something small, like cupcakes or something.

Well, this year he was short on teachers starting out (we only have the progam while school is going on) so I volunteered. Last night was my third night of teaching. I spent most of all day yesterday getting my lesson ready and getting supplies around for games and crafts.

The church has a really neat program going on in the fact that we bus the kids in and feed them supper. Our ladies cook really nice meals for the kids.

Anyway, I have one little boy, Billy, who can NOT stop talking. Another, Ethan, wants to hit and tackle the others. GRRRRRRR!!!!!

I told the lesson (with difficulty) and we did crafts. I've been doing lessons on pirates and applying it to a Bible lesson so my crafts are also about pirates. Last week we made pirate hats and the boys got to decorate them. This week we made treasure maps out of brown paper grocery sacks. The boys got wild with the crayola markers and some how ended up under the tables. GRRRRR!!!!!

We finally made it outside to play a game. I was so excited because I though the boys would really enjoy a game called Cannonballs. Once outside, they ran off.......every which direction. Nobody wanted to hear the directions to the game. After a while we went back inside and I made them just sit until class was over. They weren't happy because they didn't get to play the game. GRRRRR!!!!!!

I DON'T UNDERSTAND BOYS!!!! I keep trying to think like a boy but I just can't. Glen told me that I don't have to teach if I don't want to but I know that he'll have trouble finding someone else and I don't think that having a helper will help. I need to do something to get the boys' respect so they'll listen to ME.

I'm just venting. I know that I'll go back next week and try it again. It just takes a lot of the fun out of it for me. I could just do a plain boring lesson and just let them color, run outside for awhile, then go home but that's not what I want to do.