Young Men's Club - 3/11/08

I've been working with kids for over a year now and I realize that what I am about to say is not, "politically correct." Those kids are assholes. Seriously. They are just assholes. They don't seem to care about anything other than shitting all over anything positive that could happen in the club. Today I was thinking, "They did a great job on Friday. I can relax a little. We can just play some games and have fun today." But for some reason, these kids just couldn't make that work. They had to fuck it up. I took them to the gym today. My plan was to let them run out all of the energy of the day with some relay races. But at first, we had to do a little bit of discussion. It's just part of the job. And yet, it took them about 20 minutes for them to get quiet enough for us to have a 5 minute conversation. Finally, they picked their teams. It took another 10 minutes for them to settle down long enough so that I could explain the rules of the race. I constantly kept asking them if they would prefer to settle down and hear the rules and then run the race or play around and be disruptive. They said they wanted to stop playing around but then would create more of a commotion by screaming at each other to shut up. Then there's this one kid, Jeremiah. Oh, my goodness. If you point out anything that he does wrong, he goes into a crying fit. As they're running the race, I told him that he had to touch the line with his hand. That's it. And because of that, he chose to pout, walk into a corner, and cry. Real tears. At this point I've just given up. I don't even care anymore as far as that goes. If a kid wants to cry for absolutely no reason, I'm going to let them go into their corner and cry. When their done, they can come back. Or not. I've got better things to do. Finally, I attempted to give them free drumming time to come up with their own beats. There will be show at the end of the year and I would like it if they came up with their own drumming piece for it. Most of them just ran around and banged their sticks against anything. Newsflash: If you bang a drumstick really hard against a concrete wall, it's going to break. (The drumstick not the wall) They really enjoy pissing me off.