"Goonight" type CM Minute?

[jamist649]

Doing some last minute planning for our Annual Pack Campout coming up this weekend. Other than joining me in an ANTI-rain dance, I was wondering if ya'll could give me a few ideas.

 

I'm looking at a "goodnight" type of CM Minute to gather the boys around and tell at lights out. This will be for the final night and the end of the camp activities. Kind of a "look at what you learned, you've done well but now you need rest, sleep well, this is the way it's supposed to be, go to bed and don't get up" kind of thing. I was looking at the lyrics to the song "Goodnight Scouts" and I really like it, but it's a little "short" for spoken word.

 

Any ideas?

[Scoutfish]

Are you next to a pond or lake? Tell a Friday the 13th type story with Jason in it!

 

Nah, tempting as it is, I have always liked two stories:

 

1) Aesop's Fables:

 

The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey

 

 

A Man and his son were once going with their Donkey to market.

As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them

and said: "You fools, what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?"

 

So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their

way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: "See

that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides."

 

So the Man ordered his Boy to get off, and got on himself.

But they hadn't gone far when they passed two women, one of whom

said to the other: "Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little

son trudge along."

 

Well, the Man didn't know what to do, but at last he took his

Boy up before him on the Donkey. By this time they had come to

the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The

Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said:

"Aren't you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey

with you and your hulking son?"

 

The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They

thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied

the donkey's feet to it, and raised the pole and the donkey to

their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met

them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one

of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end

of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and

his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned.

 

"That will teach you," said an old man who had followed them:

 

"Please all, and you will please none."

 

I guess you can relate it to staying in scouts no matter what other people think about it. Do if for yourself, not scouting.

 

2)Failure:

 

Dont Be Afraid To Fail.

 

 

 

Youve failed many times, although you may not remember.

 

You fell down the first time you tried to walk.

 

You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didnt you.

 

Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?

 

Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot.

 

R.H.Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.

 

English novelist John Creasey got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.

 

Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs

 

[shortridge]

This doesn't exactly meet the standards of the original (rhyming and meter were never my strong suit), but it might work.

 

Goodnight sun

And goodnight moon

 

Goodnight campfire

and the sneaky raccoon;

 

Goodnight pots

and goodnight pans

 

Goodnight lights

and goodnight hikes;

 

Goodnight birds

Goodnight trees

 

Goodnight stars

Goodnight breeze;

 

And goodnight to the old Cubmaster

whispering 'Quiet, please' ...

 

Goodnight tents

And goodnight parents

 

And goodnight to all good Scouts

Everywhere.

[beardad]

Sing Vespers.