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Scouting makes its voice heard on young people and risk
02/02/2010
Aidan Jones, parent, Scout and one of the team that delivered the 21st World Scout Jamboree explained how Scouting takes a common sense approach when it come to managing risk on Tuesday’s BBC Breakfast.
Invited to respond to the launch of a new book Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) Aidan argued that taking acceptable and managed risks has a positive effect on the development of young people. He brought along a number of objects including a mallet and flint to show how young people in Scouting get to try out and use equipment in a properly controlled environment.
‘For me it’s about giving children great opportunities and not wrapping them in cotton wool all the time,’ said Aidan. He also spoke about his own memories of Scouting adventure as a young person: ‘As an 18 year old, I got to climb Mont Blanc with the Scouts.’
Scouting is shortly to launch a new book: A Complete Guide to Scouting Skills, published by Doubleday, which shows how traditional practical Scouting skills are as relevant now as ever.
Comments
| By Mark Turner (09/02/2010 14:11) Scouting is all about approaching a dangerous world having considered and factored out risk, i.e. being prepared. The new skills book looks like a great step forward. I'm sure someone at Gilwell will already have asked Bear to rewrite Scouting fro Boys. |
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