Just wanted to share a little something with you guys and get your thoughts. I recently took my son on a little trip with a bunch of other boys. We all went on an organized arrow head hunt. Lots of fun and great time was had by all. My son and I found about 40 or 50 arrow heads in 2 or 3 hours and I guess that was about the average.
Now here now here is the part I been thinking about.
At the end of the hunt there was one little fellow that found not one single arrow head. Looked pitiful standing there with his empty ziplock bag. The organizer a really nice guys says "ok, everyone little Johnny has no arrowheads so I would like all of you to file by and give him one of your best, so he has some" Now there are about 50 people on the trip and they all file by and drop one and some even 2 or 3 in Johnny's Bag. So now Johnny has just as many as everybody else and all is good.
Is it just me being a hard nosed, what ever you want to call it, or is this just teaching the little fellow a really bad trait? If my son had played around and not found any arrow heads I really think I would have refused to let him take the charity and instead took that opportunity to teach another lesson.
What you think? Are they too young at 6 to 9 years old to learn about redistribution of wealth and the satisfaction of hard work? I understand there are good lessons about generosity and such but when directed by a leader is it really giving or generosity?
Ready to hear your thoughts.