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Rangers, How Can Parents Help Boys in Trails?
New Stockade Leader,
I want to provide you with a few suggestions that may help you set up this form of discipleship for success, both for the Post Rangers and for the parents with their boys.
Motivating Boys to Achieve
The Leader does achievement with the boys
In Stockade, the primary time for this shared involvement is the Post Meeting, usually a period of 15 minutes. The ranger plans to accomplish a certain achievement step with the entire post. The Stockade Leader Guides for each module lead men to work with Builders and Sentinels in the boys’ Outpost Adventures. On the other hand, they can pick activities which boys find hard to do alone, like memorizing Scripture, or for which they don’t have the proper resources. As the post achieves together, the ranger can talk with his boys on a wide range of topics and concerns.
The Parent does achievement with the boys at home
Here is the opportunity for individual attention to a boy’s growth that belongs to families. The Welcome to Stockade booklet has in its final page a Note to Parents. There is a brief line there about being “done at home with your involvement”, and that should be emphasized from the beginning by the Chief Ranger. It’s also on page 2 of the boys’ Trails guide, which explains this much further. But this needs to be said and repeated often so that it becomes a feature of Stockade that provides context for this achievement method. Growth is evidenced in an individual boy’s life by the markers of blockhouses and stations earned and recognized by the program.
Attached is a copy of that page 2 from the Builder Trails 1 and Sentinel Trails 1 guide books. There is encouragement there for both Parents and Rangers.
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Here is the text from paragrapghs in the Note to Parents and Rangers, found on page 2 of Trails guides:
As parents, you can help your boy with these Achievements. Read the stories with him and ask him the questions. Encourage him to complete the activities. Help him recite a memory verse each day until he has it memorized. You can even be his Ranger and mark off completed Achievements in his Achievement Record on the last page of each Station. Part of helping him includes establishing goals. Have him consider filling in the EDC’s – the Estimated Dates of Completion for each Achievement.
As his Ranger, you can disciple the boy in many of these same areas. Talk to him about his Achievements as soon as he arrives at Stockade during your Post Check-In. Encourage him to discover the Holy Spirit’s leading in his life through them. Help build his relationship with Jesus Christ. Achievement creates discipleship opportunities. The easiest way to help him achieve is to do Stockade Modules as a Post or Stockade. These use the very same Outpost Adventures in the Post Meetings. Be sure to talk to the boy’s parents about their special role in helping him achieve. When he completes a Station or Adventure, recognize his accomplishment during Stockade Honors.
These of course are suggestions, but we all know that what is not an expectation is not likely to happen. The method needs to be encouraged from many different angles. But you’ll find it’s worth the effort.
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