Can’t wait to steal these letters for our upcoming events.

Can’t wait to steal these letters for our upcoming events.

awesome! we took our youth down to Fl (from tn) for camp this year and i told them that all electronic devices would be taken up during the week unless there was a dire emergency. I also strongly suggested listening to God honoring music there and back on the vans. it doesn’t make much sense to be going to camp and listening to eminem on the way back right? If i ever do anything involving hotels, i’ll take your advice here on the post! especially with there being hbo free on almost every room. it helps to curb the temptation for all!

awesome! we took our youth down to Fl (from tn) for camp this year and i told them that all electronic devices would be taken up during the week unless there was a dire emergency. I also strongly suggested listening to God honoring music there and back on the vans. it doesn’t make much sense to be going to camp and listening to eminem on the way back right? If i ever do anything involving hotels, i’ll take your advice here on the post! especially with there being hbo free on almost every room. it helps to curb the temptation for all!

Hi Marc! It actually worked well, and usually does. The only time it’s backfired on me was when we had a girl sign up for a trip once the day before we left. She took a completely aloof attitude toward anything we said, and we didn’t find out about her cavalcade of electronics until we arrived. It meant an awkward call back home to her mom about it and a line in the sand – “We want you here, but you there’s a reason for this trip. You saw this information in the paperwork before we left and chose not to speak up, so this is your responsibility to make right. Either choose to let the trip and its purposes be more important than your electronics, or mom’s going to have to drive to pick you up because you feel this is unfair.” She chose to stay, but the whole trip gave every leader grief and looked for any hint of hypocrisy in us. I learned later that a chat with parents is even more important than the letter to the students, especially if they’re new.

Hi Marc! It actually worked well, and usually does. The only time it’s backfired on me was when we had a girl sign up for a trip once the day before we left. She took a completely aloof attitude toward anything we said, and we didn’t find out about her cavalcade of electronics until we arrived. It meant an awkward call back home to her mom about it and a line in the sand – “We want you here, but you there’s a reason for this trip. You saw this information in the paperwork before we left and chose not to speak up, so this is your responsibility to make right. Either choose to let the trip and its purposes be more important than your electronics, or mom’s going to have to drive to pick you up because you feel this is unfair.” She chose to stay, but the whole trip gave every leader grief and looked for any hint of hypocrisy in us. I learned later that a chat with parents is even more important than the letter to the students, especially if they’re new.