scoutmastert67

our troops PLC is held about every 45 days usually on a Sunday nite at our meeting hall it runs about 90 minutes and is run by SPL but with help on the first one just to show the ropes from the scout master they plan out the next two months meetings they do not have any opening or closings but attendance is noted at the PLC only adult at the PLC is the SM for bouncing ideas and to address any SM needs or concerns about the troop they have tried the before meeting PLC but as noted before to many distractions and lack of on time attendance mandated a change to a PLC only meeting on a different nite then the troop meeting there is a 3-5 min "after action report " after the weekly troop meeting sort of the stop start continues and a brief overview of next weeks meeting Exactly. Our SPL and ASPL are 13 -- and the SPL is a *young* 13. He''''s trying; really, he is. We have a great ASM who has always sat in on the PLC meetings (for about 10 years now). He''''s squared away and the most wonderful adult in the troop. But the SPL''''s dad is the SM. Another good guy -- unfortunately he comes with the wife... She hijacks the meeting, does most of the talking, and treats her 13 year old like a little boy. My son has complained to me, but is afraid to complain to the SM -- for obvious reasons. So they "discuss" forever, and rarely come to any decision at all. Any ideas on how to deal with an overbearing SM''''s wife? (who is signed up as an ASM) the problem of a parent of a scout that interferes with that scouts development will always be a issue many do not realize that they are even doing it and sometimes it only needs a little private talk to solve. In our troop we have a policy of a mother/father not working with their own kids this cuts down on favoritism or being harder on your own and if you have a parent babying their kids and it starts affecting advancement you would be amazed how fast they will change the behavior in this case the spl and PLC may want to invite only the adults they want to the PLC and speak only on topics under debate for a limited time and if the SM wife still interferes then the SM "GOT TO MAN UP " and put a stop to it