Help the World!

Volunteer a little would you? You don't have to let Cub Scout stuff take over your kitchen table, most likely you don't have do much of anything except lend your name and a couple of hours of your time now and then. This isn't the first time I've railed about the lack of volunteers but it really gets my goat. My son's cub scout pack has roughly 50 boys in it. On average 4-5 people do the work. Not unusual by any stretch, most things are like this. What yanks my chain is that we have been begging at every meeting for someone (anyone) to step up and be the scoutmaster and of course we have no takers. Now to my knowledge I've never actually SEEN the scoutmaster DO anything. He even admits all he does is put on his shirt and show up at pack meetings once a month and hand out the handy dandy awards I spent three days preparing (see above picture) No one wants to do it. If I step up and do it my position will be empty and honestly my position is way more work. I don't get it.

Here is my challenge to you. If your child is in an organization - church, scouts, little league or whatever your poison may be, you owe it some amount of your TIME to keep things running. The next time somebody stands up at a meeting and says "we need a volunteer for XYZ" try it. If XYZ is beyond your current capabilities speak with person after and say "I can't do XYZ, but I'd like to help somehow. Do you have a job that takes X number of hours a week I can help out with?" I can assure you that you will not be turned down. You may think that because you work it gets you out of volunteering and that's hogwash. The stay-at-home-moms I know are happy to take on the time consuming tasks (such as sorting cub scout awards) if only somebody else will take on the task of filling a committee chair or spend two hours a month balancing the checkbook. Really your kids are doing the activity too.