It was 2:10 p.m.
My son looked at the clock and remembered his Scout Troop’s Court of Honor started at 2 p.m. He had not reminded us to put it on the calendar. His mother and I had forgotten, too. And we were late. Very late. He and I were in shorts.
He freaked out.
I calmly got dressed and guided him as he got dressed. His mother grabbed his stuff and Scout uniform. I kept telling him that freaking out made it 10x harder. And that we’d get there.
We got there 15 minutes later. He missed part of it but not all of it. And I hope he learned a couple of valuable lessons:
1. Panic makes things 10x harder. A cool head may not always prevail, but you stand a better chance if you focus and work instead of screaming.
2. Keep a good calendar. When you are as busy as we are, you live and die by your calendar.
I think I learned something from the experience, too.
As a mom of an Eagle (about 10 years ago!) I still see the qualities he learned through Scouting. Hope you are one day the father of an Eagle…one of the proudest days of my life!