Being Helpful at Home
| Category: | Helpful |
|---|---|
| Notes: | True helpfulness starts with family, not just strangers or public service. |
Some Scouts will volunteer for every service project, help elderly strangers, and work tirelessly on troop activities. But at home, they have to be asked three times to take out the trash, they leave their parents to do all the housework, and they don't help their siblings with homework.
There's something wrong with that picture. If you're only helpful when others are watching or when you'll get credit for it, that's not true helpfulness - that's performance. Real helpfulness starts at home, with the people who see you at your worst and love you anyway.
A Scout is helpful especially at home. Do your chores without being reminded. Help your parents before they ask. Assist your siblings when they're struggling. Be at least as helpful to your family as you are to strangers at service projects. Because if you're not helpful where you live every day, all that public service is just for show.