Big/Little Brother program

[modorney]

1. A strong brotherhood has both pledge classs unity as well as strong big/little relationships. Try to keep one from dominating another. Especially if you just had an unusually big pledge class.

2. Keep track of big/little relationships. If a big hasn't done anything for a month, find out why; maybe you need to make some changes?

3. Many bigs have a steady (pinned, engaged,...) girlfriend. Encourage the bigs to double date with the littles. (You, or the bigs may need to find them dates?)

4. Do you have a mentor program? (Balanced Man, etc.) Involve the big/little relationship with that.

[bellwisdom]

First and most importantly, make sure that the big and little have something in common and are not complete opposites

Some chapters require every active to have a lil. I think that is not good because unfortunatly you will have some active who don't want to be a big, if they don't want to be a big the they won't be putting there heart into it. Which will only cause problems for the pledge.

If you have an Active Member Scholarship chair I would team up with him and ask his advise as well. Make the bigs be study buddies as well.

Let your bigs know how vital they are in this pledges journey and they need to make that pledge feel like he can look up to him or ask him anything

Like someone said before, its supposed to feel like family.

One thing I know one of our chapters do is recognize the "Big/Lil Team" of the quarter award. It's very competitive there and both actives and pledges vote on the criteria.

And I agree with everything the last two posts' said.

[frednhb]

We usually require the big brother to buy the little brother lunch, buy the materials and help him make his paddle, and just be there the whole time along the way. One of the things we stress the big brother to do is to keep them interested. Talk about everything thats happening, bring them out to events, and just keep the pledges going.