Our LEARNING PHILOSOPHY
A WORLD OF COMPETITION, LIMITED TIME, AND EXPANSIVE OPTIONS
In today's social systems, children and adults have an expansive "menu" of activities, endeavors, interests, hobbies, and pursuits from which they can choose to occupy their time, challenge their senses, promote their personal growth, learning, and development, and bring joy and pleasure to their lives. The challenge then becomes, which of the many options of activities and engagements available should be pursued, and each of us enters into a psychological and physical cost:benefits analysis in making decisions that affect our lives both in the moment as well as into the future.
As challenging as adults find it to make good decisions regarding how and where they'll expend their attention and energies, today's youth seem to have an even more difficult challenge in making decisions and understanding the long-range consequences of those decisions, whether perceived to be good or bad.
While no guarantees can be made by any youth-serving agency, it is rather safe to tie assumptions to reality in terms of long-range positive consequences based on vision, planning, and the engagement of consciously applied and psychologically-grounded developmental supports, services, interventions, and programs...and that is precisely what Scouting does!
The Scouting program makes no claim to be a substitute for high-quality home environments, empirically-based endeavors such as sport, artistic pursuits, faith-based activities, or hobbies. Scouting does, however, provide youth members a rich learning environment that can complement and bolster overall growth, learning, and development by engaging a unique blend of fun, compassion, understanding, and goal-oriented approaches to hasten learning at a level that excites generalization and practical application in members' day-to-day living.
