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Y-Indian Guides & Y-Indian Princess History
Pals forever, Friends Always

INDIAN GUIDES - "Pals Forever" Purpose: The purpose of the Y-Indian Guides Program is to foster the understanding and companionship between father and son. Aims: To be clean in body and pure in heart. To be "Pals Forever" with my father/son. To love the sacred circle of my family. To listen while others speak. To love my neighbor as myself. To seek and preserve the beauty of the Great Spirit's work in forest, field, and stream. Pledge: "We, Father and Son, through friendly service to each other, to our family, to this tribe, to our community, seek a world pleasing to the eye of the Great Spirit."

INDIAN PRINCESS - "Friends Always" Purpose: The purpose of the Y-Indian Princess Program is to foster the understanding and companionship between father and daughter. Aims: To be clean in body and pure in heart. To be "Pals Forever" with my father/daughter. To love the sacred circle of my family. To listen while others speak. To love my neighbor as myself. To seek and preserve the beauty of the Great Spirit's work in forest, field, and stream. Pledge: "We, Father and Daughter, through friendly service to each other, to our family, to this tribe, to our community, seek a world pleasing to the eye of the Great Spirit."

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YMCA OBJECTIVE:

The YMCA locally, nationally and internationally is dedicated to providing good opportunities for people to achieve their greatest and most satisfying potential as caring, responsible human beings. Y-Indian Programs help fulfill this mission when they provide the following benefits to parents and children:

• Foster companionship and understanding and set a foundation for positive, lifelong relationships between father and daughter and father and son.
• Build a sense of self-esteem and personal worth.
• Expand awareness of body, mind and spirit.
• Provide the framework to meet a mutual need of spending enjoyable, constructive and quality time together.
• Enhance the quality of family time.
• Emphasize the vital role that parents play in the growth and development of their own children.
• Offer an important and unique opportunity to develop and enjoy volunteer leadership.

DEVELOPMENTAL TASKS

The YMCA program goals for five to twelve year-olds are based on the development talks of helping children to:

• Develop growing confidence that they are liked and accepted by adults close to them.
• Feel secure in their parents' love and be able to share some of this love with others.
• Feel increasing satisfaction in playing with others their own age and in sharing their possessions.
• Develop identification with their fathers.
• Derive increasing satisfaction from physical skill development and active play.
• Become useful in their homes and share in household tasks.
• Find something they can do well on their own.
• Develop a growing appreciation of the need for rules and the ability to take direction.
• Accept and value each person for himself or herself.

*The YMCA adheres to a strict "No Alcohol or Drugs" Policy that must be signed and understood by each parent participant in the program.

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