4-H Teaches Life Skills
4-H isn't just for raising livestock. I was in 4-H when I was a kid from the age of nine all the way up until 15 and I should've stayed in longer. Yet, contrary to popular belief, I never raised any livestock. COMMUNITY MEETINGS I did learn how to participate and a formal meeting. Roberts rules and all… As a parent, having children in 4-H also learning the skills, can be painful to watch, but what a valuable skill it is to give them the confidence to participate in community meetings in the future. To know they bring their opinion to the table and have a confidence to speak in public. Just this year when beach junior guards was threatened to be canceled my daughter stood up at the city Council meeting and asked them to keep the program in place. Without 4-H, I don't know if she would've been confident enough to take that podium and speak in front of that room full of people. They are asked to create an agenda, come up with event ideas for each month in a...