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Originally Posted by Army Wife'79
I first noticed it when my son was in Boy Scouts and they were given a chunk of wood and they were to sand it, paint it and make it into a car to race. My son worked on it as a little kid would and it looked like it. When we showed up for the race we saw all these elaborate cars and were stunned. (The rules were the kids had to do it themselves). I
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Been there, done that. It's one thing if Bubba designed the car and had his adult help with cutting it out, it's another for Dad or Grandpa to make the car themselves. That always drove me insane!!!! We had one little boy every year with a car so smooth that we thought they bought it. Dad admitted to taking his car to work and doing it there, but work was a major car production facility so Dad had access to the best paints and design software...and the car looked it. What does the boy get out of that?
Solved the problem by having a Pinewood work meeting night where leaders brought tools in to help the boys with cars (meaning, they could see the boys involved with the process
) and having a "Parent Division" on race day (with the entry fee to buy and race a car as a pack fundraiser. Darn effective fundraiser.)