We all know that in order to achieve good academic achievements requires hard work and perseverance, and that over the years and as you grow the studies become harder - you have to invest more, there are more jobs and tests, and it is much harder to succeed in all subjects.
People who aspire to excel in school are people who are part of their personality and character, and no matter how much effort parents put into forcing their child to sit in a chair and study, you can't make a child great. An outstanding child should be a child who aspires high and does not give up on little things along the way. This is a child who has a goal in front of his eyes, he will know how to do everything and will take himself in his hands to succeed in doing it. That's me.
At the same time, a child who has the qualities to be an outstanding child is a child who aspires to succeed in all areas and beyond the academic field also in the social sphere, he finds himself in a daily dilemma that the older he grows only becomes more difficult. My example on the subject is my struggle with academic excellence versus excellence in youth movements.
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Commitment and complexity
The commitment to youth movements begins in fourth grade, when we are still young and coming because the whole class is on the move and I want to meet all my friends even after school, and over the years it continues with a routine that gets busier from year to year.
When you're a young camper, you come to activities and don't want to miss any action because it's fun to learn new games with all your friends, talk about current issues and feel treated like an adult, able to discuss and learn about important and new things that you only occasionally heard Mom and Dad talk about, or your extended family talk about at Friday dinner and didn't really understand.
When you're a youth (grades 6-8) the commitment grows more and more, and suddenly you do it because you feel you belong and are committed to your tribe and not because all your friends go.
Then comes the ninth grade course year and seeing your instructors, the people you've admired all these years, deliver content and prepare things for you, suddenly you learn to be them and the tribe becomes your second home. All this in order to make my investment and achieve the goal in the future - to become a guide. This is in parallel with my goal of continuing to excel in my studies.
The complexity of ninth grade is difficult - there is also the pressure from the studies and the school towards going up to high school and the desire to fit into five units of English and math, and suddenly it turns out that you have an important test when the day before you have to be in the tribe late for something that will affect whether you receive instruction or not.
Now I got to be an instructor, and I was also accepted into the excellence and leadership class in high school – I achieved my goal. I know the pressure now will be harder. On the one hand, in the role of instructor you are responsible for a group of children, and at this stage you can't say, "I have a really hard test this week, I didn't come to action," and they won't say, "Everything is good, come next week." On the other hand, the stress begins - a busy schedule, jobs, exams, matriculations that affect your future.
This coping seems very simple to everyone, but when you enter into guidance in a youth movement, the commitment, the investment, it's hard to give it up. Not everyone understands what this place really means to teenagers who think of it that way.
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