Poor scout, to, Especially at camps, Scout useless. Independently, Are we talking about the bumps, scouts of an unbeatable trail, younger scouts, older, Wanderers or instructors, Everyone should take care of body and mind hygiene on their own and, as far as possible.
B-P wrote in his book
Scout education would not be complete, If he did not try to instill in boys (currently: Also in girls) hygiene and physical fitness rules
We as instructors, We have the task, Also with your own example, teach scouts and scouts basics of taking care of your physical and mental condition. In this article, I will raise these issues along with simple proposals on how to develop these factors in adolescents.
Body hygiene
It consists of aspects such as activity (efficiency) physical, healthy eating, Maintenance of personal hygiene. The consistency plays a big role here, Because, as at the camp, the instructors watch over the night silence, nutritious meals, or morning warm -up, Yes at home or at school, The scout has to know what benefits to take care of his condition.
Physical fitness
An extremely important basis of scout life is the right physical condition. There are too many people in our surroundings, which, when entering the stairs, get short of breath, do they always complain about the runny nose and sore throat.
Let's ask ourselves, however: WHAT FOR? Why take care of your health?
- because "I have honest will (…) to carry a willing help to others ". By destroying your body, You limit your possibilities to help others
- Because you don't want to grow old at the age 20 lat. Them we are older, the greater tendencies to a sitting and lazy lifestyle, which shapes something in young people that I call premature tetry- they become grandparents, when they are still young people
So what can we do, to take care of yourself?
At home: poranna rozgrzewka- stretching, running, sports At school: uczestniczenie w zajęciach Wfu- Regardless of what they look like ;), using outdoor breaks, Walks around school At the camp: uczestniczenie w zaprawie porannej (here the role of the instructor, To make warm -ups specific and diligently selected for the possibilities of scouts), field exercises, fitness classes At the collection: dynamiczne formy pracy, as many outdoor classes as possible.
Healthy eating
For the body to work, needs a specific dose of fuel. Look at what you eat, Limit the consumption of simple sugars (white sugar, sweets), drink a lot of water.
At home: at least 3 meals a day At school: pożywne drugie śniadanie, A healthy snack at a break (fruit, yoghurts) At the camp: odpowiednio dobrane posiłki, The variety of food products At the collection: dostęp do czystej wody, teas, juices. It is not necessarily a team responsibility- This is not a problem for a scout, to have a bottle with something to drink on the collection.
Maintenance of personal hygiene
Something, what evokes mixed feelings in me, This is the mentality of some people. “I am a scout, I will not eat from the floor?”, “When I went to the camps, We were washing in the river and we all survived ", “Not washing strengthens immunity! Somehow we have to buy it!”.
Well, the matter is not so simple. I can skip food from the ground and give this aspect to any interpretation for each individual. However, walking dirty and smelly is not a matter of "being a scout", just being unhygienic dirty. You bathed in the river? Maybe, but just- you bathed!
The instructor's task is to enable scouts to maintain personal hygiene. He is responsible for cleanliness, Not only in tents and at the camp. Acquiring immunity is not walking in muddy clothes and masking the odor with deodorants, Only not limiting contact with the factors that build our immune system. Washing regularly does not bother you 😉
At home: regularne kąpiele, showers, brushing teeth in the morning, in the evening and after a meal. At school: mycie rąk przed jedzeniem At the camp: przestrzeganie obowiązujących pór kąpieli i czasu na toaletę poranną i wieczorną. Here I look at the instructors- Choose the amount of time to wash to the number of camp participants properly At the collection: dostęp do toalet, water and soap, guarding the purity of scouts before collecting.
Mental hygiene
We often forget about this aspect. We focus so much on physical fitness, that we forget about our brains. Research proves, that people are becoming more and more stressed, discouraged and lazy.
Take some time on it, to learn stress control techniques, healthy nap or just- Read a good book.
At home: czytanie książek, afternoon nap, Limiting electronics an hour before sleeping to the necessary minimum At school: wcześniejsze przygotowywanie się, to avoid stress against tests, cards, "Putting into the slack", So "stop worrying about this, what you have no influence on ”😉 At the camp: odpowiednio długa cisza poobiednia, watching sleep hygiene, not very frequent alarms and night games, At the collection: angażujące zajęcia, Properly selected forms of work for age and skills.
Collections proposals, tasks and projects
time planning
Stress control techniques
acquiring the efficiency of the chef
setting camping menus
Cooking on the collection
creating a camping book of a cook
creating a poster with a nutritional pyramid
sports tournaments
field collection- stalking, racing
fitness competition
Creating activity logs in which daily physical activities will be written out
Creating the Discussion Book/Poetry/Film Club
collections with going to cultural places- harm, theater, philharmonic
