Building Leadership Skills in Your Kids!

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Building leadership skills is really important to help your kids make it in the world. That doesn’t mean you have to be raising the next President of the United States. Sometimes building leadership skills means teaching kids when to be the hero and when to be the follower. They are equally important skills for kids to learn to be able to be successful and live a life that rocks.

You may be surprised to learn this but I wasn’t always a natural born leader. Actually I was kind of an awkward leader. I was the kid in class that everyone seemed to think I knew what the heck I was doing, and would get volunteered to be the leader of group projects and such. When it came to actually leading, and inspiring people I usually had NO clue what the heck I was doing. Who the heck would want to listen to me? My self esteem didn’t really warrant thinking of myself as a leader. That was until I became active in scouting.

Yep, I was a Girl Scout for over 11 years and then became a Girl Scout leader for another four. That’s why I know how important scouting is to building leadership skills. That’s when I had the chance to check out the Boy Scouts booth at the Minnesota State Fair, I was really excited to see how they were building heroes and leaders!

Boy Scouting started in my hometown, Savannah, Georgia just like Girl Scouts! Though I could never join the Boy Scouts, there were several times we worked in conjunction with them during my scouting career. Growing up, I got to see first hand friends of mine go from being unsure of themselves to being able to complete Eagle Scout projects that would blow your mind.

The Great Minnesota Get Together, as we like to call the Minnesota State Fair, is a really fun way to see what’s going on in our great state. We don’t like to brag, but it’s one of the best fairs in the country. Having moved all across the country, I would definitely have to agree with that.

One of the great things about the fair is that you get to see what different organizations in the state are doing and learn more about their programs. That’s what we did when we headed to the Boy Scouts obstacle course at the fair. You can check out my Facebook Live video here. My son was the brave one that got on the ropes course! This gal surely wasn’t going up there, and the two teen girls suddenly became “afraid of heights.” So it was up to my son to make his mama proud!

The ropes course at the fair is completely free, and you can try it out with the whole family. They have volunteers there to help you work the course, and these are the same volunteers that help out with the Boy Scout camps that they hold each year! While you are there, you can also get more information on how to get your kids involved in Boy Scouts.

The Boy Scouts are also having a scouting informational night on September 22nd all across the country. You can learn more at insert website here. It’s a night at your local schools to learn about the scouting program near you. If you haven’t looked into Boy Scouts before, it’s a great time to get some free information on how to get your son involved with the programs they have to offer.

We had a blast checking out the obstacle course at the Minnesota State Fair, and you can visit them the entire fair. It’s free to go and they get about 6,000 people through their course a day. You may have to wait a little bit, but according to my son, it’s totally worth the wait!

Check back with us in September, when we head to the Boy Scouts challenge course and learn more about wall climbing, archery, and of course how Boy Scouts help build leadership skills. I might just brave the tower on that one if I’m feeling up to it that day. So you’ll want to stay tuned!