EVENTS - INFO
!!Make sure to turn in a Profile on your child!!
* In case of an Emergency, who will we call if we have no profile??
**Red & Black Caps need their own whistle with shirt & cap on Thursdays.
This starts our 20th Year Anniversary!!
Annual Toy Drive - Goal 500 - Boy Toys
Thanks Everyone - We Did It!! 1,018!!
Winter Hours: TBoys ends @ 5pm
March Calendar:
All Thurs Thursday Boys Regular Play & dinner @ Pulido's INFO
08 Mon Red Cap Class 6:30pm @ Mr. Redwine's - 4606 Cloudview
09 Tues Dad's Night Out 8pm (Thursday Boys Men's Fellowship)
15 Mon Red Cap Class 6:30pm @ Mr. Redwine's - 4606 Cloudview
16 Tues Dad's Night Out 8pm (Thursday Boys Men's Fellowship)
18 Thurs Spring Break - NO TBOYS PLAY DAY or Pulido's
26 Fri
Mr Redwine - TBoys Endurance Fundraiser @ YMCA
Mr Redwine - TBoys Endurance Fundraiser @ YMCA 27 Thurs MADD Walk Service Project #444 Serve & Clean-up
28 Sun Father/Son (Parent/Child) in the park 2:30-4:00
29 Mon Red & Black Security Meeting 6:30 @ Mr. Redwine's
30 Tues Mom's Night Out @8pm
2010
May, 27th, Thursday: Annual PICNIC
June 3rd, Thursday: Last TBoys Day of this school year
June 4th, Friday: Last Day of School
Mr. Redwine needs postage stamps!! ...regular & postcard
ITSOO - In The Service Of Others!!
YFTC - Yours For The Children
SIO - Special Invite Only
Notes from Mr. Redwine:
PROFILES - Make sure one is turned in on your kid(s) - For Safety & an Emergency!! If something happened to your child, how would we know to call you without it???? We need one on each child if have more than one.
PARENTS - FYI - You are invited to everything even if your child is not - catch a look at the program - feel free to jump in, help or just be a kid and play!!
DONATIONS - Help when you can - This is a community financed group now. Funds are needed for Leadership hats, gifted shirts, first picnic orders, KWD, mailouts-bday cards-stamps, security shirts/jackets, new cones, flour/socks, balls, snacks & candy for play day-meetings-Dad/Kid play... It really adds up...
This is our community group - let us together make it ~ROCK~!! NL
LOVING THE LIVING - See Community Service Page
(ask friends, family and neighbors to help - again, discuss the needs of others to the kiddos)
MEGA KWD Months include: - Kayaking, bowling, putt-putt, fishing, feed the ducks, zoo, eating, working.
Great "male" bonding for these kids. Our donations help support this needed time for these kids/...wonderful program
SPONSOR OPPORTUNITY - Rolls of Stamps.
CARING CLOSET - Canned food - meats, stews, etc always needed, can openers toothbrush/paste, bandaides, Neosporin, wet-wipes, razors, tissue paper, paper towels, ziplock bags, combs, washcloths, Advil, water - see Communtiy Service Page
RAIN OUTS - Don't forget Black Caps & siblings go bowling on rain outs. Must have shirt, hat and whistle.
CHECK-OUT - Please follow check-out procedures & communicate with me who is picking up your child.
1) child shakes my hand & tells me who he/she is going with 2) get three different kinds of candy (for following the rules) - siblings may partake, but keep it to three so everyone gets some 3) get paperwork
T-BOY BUMPER STICKERS - All pick up vehicles should have one on it - take pride in our group!! ;-)
RED CAP CLASS - This class is the introduction to the world of large group leadership for a Thursday Child!!
This is a kid run group - but they need a ride to class!! ;-) Wear T-Boy shirt &/or cap. Let's get those heads red!!
BLACK CAPS - Have your shirt, hat and whistle in order to get cokes for snack time and any special privileges. Work at packing the trailer at least twice a month or unpacking in the morning at 7:00am. Attend Security Meetings - check the monthly calendar - where shirt/hat.
PROUD! - I am extremely proud of the leadership, mentoring and teaching that is transpiring.
YFTC - My job is simple... to Love your kids almost as much as you! Let me know how & when I can help!
ITSOO - Thursday Boys is a school and community service organization. Help us make a difference all year! (In The Service Of Others)
KWD - (Kids Without Dads) or (Kids Wildest Dreams) If your child needs some one-on-one with a Dad, I'm your guy. Sign up is easy. Spaces are limited and pre-scheduled.
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This list is for T-Boys Info only and will not be given out. We respect your privacy.
Did you know only 9 Red-Caps started as Kindergartners?
Did you know over 16 trees/shrubs in park dedicated
to T-Boys?
Did you know
there have been 910 Red Caps?
Leadership is only 12% of our kids?
A Big Job!!
Did you know T-Boys has over 3,100 Alumni & 461 Actives?
Did you know we have had over 22 Green Caps? (Pre-K)
This program has been suspended with the graduation of our extra large 5th grade class and will resume only when it seems necessary. Implemented 2007-2008
Thursday Boys "Little Guys & Gals" Day
CHANGES: We're all subject to them. Change is good, right? My personal opinion is that a lot of changes aren't and the constant movement to make things easier eliminates some very worthwhile concepts, conditions and programs.
When the school district planned the shotgun 3:00 dismissal last year, things were a lot more complicated. The hour that I had with the K thru 2nd grades to instruct, play gentler games, teach songs and prayers and to devote to them in general disappeared.
Now, kindergartners in particular are thrown into artillery and an older focused program with no real special time allocated to just their needs and development. It also has created a less informed and trained bottom half of our group. While miraculously fallout has been less than ever before, the program has been weaker and less sensitive to our younger members.
After a year plus of trying to absorb and reconfigure the change into a positive solution, I have decided to make some changes of my own. The following outline will be followed beginning in February 2008. This will be on a trial basis until further notice.
1. The first Thursday of each month will be for K thru 2nd grades only.
2. Any Black or Red cap (Leadership) who wishes to work and mentor on this day are welcome to serve. Leadership will not be allowed to play and should come with service and security as their priority.
3. All blue caps that are 3rd, 4th or 5th grade will go home.
4. If the day is rained out, Black caps and siblings will still go bowling, but you must have your shirt & hat.
5. All working Black Cap Leadership must wear all 3 items of their uniform: shirt (yellow if have), cap & whistle.
6. All other Thursdays in the month we will function as normal. (even if 5 weeks in a month)
7. All "little guy" features will return to the first Thursday. Prizes for individual "Kick It" champs, song and prayer time, youth snacks, special candy, instruction in the Thursday Boy ways and Buddy Day match-ups with mentoring, leadership, rest time, rings, circle ball and special events.
8. KWD members are exempt from #3.
9. Staff members' children are exempt from #3 but should cover their shift or duties if planning to miss the first Thursday of any month.
This change is to place value on our future which is our "little guys & gals", not to take anything away from anyone else. In fact, to those with the right mind-set of Service and Leadership ambition, this could be the best and most rewarding program ever!
Love, ITSOO & YFTC...
Mr. Redwine
Don't use your gifts to judge others - instead use them to mentor, exemplify and share. -JR
T-Boy Profile Handbook
Thursday Boys Profile Handbook
You’ll need Adobe Reader to read and print it, and you can download it for free here: www.adobe.com.
Extra!! Extra!! Read all about it!! The Fort Worth Star-Telegram published a
wonderful article about T-Boys. David Casstevens really captured Thursday Boys & Mr. Redwine.
It is a lovely article set.
Video in Demand!! Watch the AWESOME news story done by Paige McCoy Smith of
"The ^Not So Perfect Parent" with WFAA, Channel 8
TOY DRIVE
GOAL: 500
Collected:
1,018 !!
Call Mr. Redwine at 924-6102 -- Get included! Shay Smith 817-528-7429 Brian Jolin 817-368-3061
shay@yougrill.com brian@jolin.org
THURSDAY BOY FITNESS PROGRAM
Food for thought: Abundance brings responsibility and self-regulation is the only system that follows you for life. America is one of the most obese nations per capita for two reasons: The people who have overindulge and the people who don’t fall victim to inexpensive fast food and often it’s a mixture of both. Accessibility and speed of acquisition also play a role in why we don’t “eat healthy.”
A. Assessing what each of us can do to stay healthy:
1. See and listen to our doctor who works daily to be updated on health and knows us individually
2. Understand our metabolism and genetic tendencies.
3. Exercise daily and reduce intake on sedentary days.
4. Walk, ride our bikes, and other substitutes for short trips instead of using motorized vehicles.
5. Eat smaller portions and more often (5 meals a day – several being snack-like triggering our metabolic rates).
6. Exercise with safe heart ranges (fat burning zones – low risk and high reduction productivity).
7. Understand time investments and benefits of different lengths, durations and types of exercise.
8. Choose maintenance or recovery according to needs and goals (lose weight or keeping the same).
9. Cut portions in half, eat one and save the second for another complete meal.
10. Drink lots of water.
11. Avoid eating late, before long inactivity and when you do go very light and right.
12. Eat a daily recommended combination of all food groups and take a vitamin recommended by your doctor that meets your needs.
13. Track your progress on paper.
14. Share your journey with a partner, friend or family member – fitness is work but made fun when together.
15. Understand everyone’s needs are different and results and effort will vary with each individual.
16. Set reasonable goals, be patient, be steady and don’t diet. (The body is smart and will adjust caloric intake to fuel burning process.
17. Limit computer, TV, video games and other time consuming activities each day and impose certain time periods and expectations of physical activities each day, placing them as a priority to be done first.
18. Examine if aerobic or anaerobic activity will provide the best and desired results for you. Understand high risk, high impact and fat burning.
19. Insist on a written plan to track and manage your intake, output and goals.
20. Form good habits as a child and avoid the mental and physical anguish of backtracking.
21. Surround yourself with people who support your life choices, have common goals and agree on your priorities.
22. Longer life often accompanies people who monitor their health but it is the quality of life that gives back daily.
23. Remember looking fit never tells the entire story – being fit is internal and isn’t a gift but an acquired state of mind and body. You can look like a supermodel and not be able to climb a flight of steps.
24. Losing weight and liking what you see in the mirror should only be our start in the search for the best health we can achieve.
25. Anything can be overdone and abused – learn body fat percentage, height and weight charts and use moderation and common sense.
26. Pay attention to feedback from others and avoid extremes, making changes too quickly, or becoming compulsive or inflexible.
27. Occasional variations and exceptions make the hard work fun. Don’t deprive your craving -- just control the binges and activity levels to compensate the intakes.
28. Plan your day to include eating right, exercising, graphing and recording progress and working within the guidelines of a physician.
29. Know that obesity steals the following from you daily: energy, confidence, peace of mind, health (causes disease, diabetes, heart disease, etc.) quality of life, mobility, bone and joint health, back and hip health, opportunities, inclusion, livelihood, longevity, attitude, outlook – and on and on . . .
30. Continually reexamine, recalculate and revise your fitness plan – as you change so should it.
31. Avoid yoyo strategies – pick and formulate a lifelong plan within reason and distance worthy.
B. Assembling the tools to succeed:
1. See and discuss your plan with a physician.
2. Acquire a certified trainer, coach or empowered mentor.
3. Begin an exercise chart, calorie intake records, food group check menu and heart record.
4. Keep a journal on progress, feelings of success and personal achievement.
5. Weigh and record losses, gains and body fat changes (remember muscle weighs more than fat due to density) – don’t always assume same weight is no progress.
6. Mix workout regimens to include muscle development with lifting, heart health with activity and body protection with stretching, warm-ups and cool downs.
7. Plan meals and assemble food group availability.
8. Have portion control plan for all meals.
9. Obtain heart watch for maximizing workouts and monitoring safety zones.
10. Work out with a partner when possible. Understand they have totally different pace needs. (Formulate separate activity levels.)
11. Take vitamin daily with doctor’s approval and check if a milligram level of aspirin or other substance is beneficial or suggested for your program.
12. De-stress your life. Enjoy your program and remember the turtle wins the race.
13. Determine your sleep needs for your age and body type.
14. Examine the added gain of burn more while you sleep and raising the calorie graph with early exercise (two optimum times).
15. Take a lunch – control your environment.
16. Prepare, anticipate, be tenacious and stay the course.
17. Remember without maintenance you will return to where you started – maintaining is so much less work than coming from behind. Avoid slips, be diligent and remembers the true reward is the lifelong habits you achieve to live the best and happiest life you can.
18. Make choices that do not conflict with your planning. Share your knowledge, success and strategy with a friend and congratulations on a new and better you.
YFTC & ITSOO,
Mr. Redwine
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THURSDAY BOY PROFILES
Profile completion forms are required past the first visit on all Thursday children.
It is not a request but mandatory if a child intends to participate.
1. Doctor information is imperative in case of an emergency.
2. A parent’s signature is required that you have secured your own insurance and hold Thursday Boys blameless in the case of an accident.
3. Current phones and address must be furnished.
4. A school or sports picture (not a snapshot) must accompany the form. The bigger the picture the better (do not tape over or staple the picture to the form).
5. Security teams are required to study and learn the children by their photos.
Thank you for your urgency with this requirement and your cooperation.
YFTC & ITSOO,
Mr. Redwine
(Printable)
THURSDAY BOY POKER RULES
DAD’S NIGHT OUT
1. $20.00 buy in (no buy backs)
2. Ante raises a quarter each half hour
3. Everyone antes each hand
4. Deck passes each hand and dealer picks game
5. No smoking, two drink limit
6. Tournament time limit three hours or when top four or less agree to split proceeds
7. All proceeds benefit Thursday Boys
8. All dads leave the sailor at home
9. Tables reduce to 5-6, combining when necessary
10. BYOB
11. No continuation games
12. No string bets
YFTC & ITSOO,
Mr. Redwine
THE
THURSDAY
BOYS
"GREEN & BLUE MAKE IT POSSIBLE -
RED AND BLACK MAKE IT WORK"
THURSDAY BOY GANG AWARENESS PROGRAM
Things each of us needs to understand about gang activity:
1. It breaks down communities.
2. Gangs participate in many illegal activities: illegal weapon possession, hate crimes, theft, violence, drugs, prostitution and countless others.
3. Gangs force individuals into compliance.
4. Gangs are difficult to escape once involved.
5. Gangs do not have your interest at heart.
6. Over 500 gangs exist in the Metroplex and cost our cities millions of dollars in damages, prevention and incarceration.
7. Gangs have no respect for authority, police, community or others’ life or well-being.
8. Gangs are not clubs, fraternities or youth groups – they are a gathering of young people heading for jail or death.
9. Involvement is all or nothing and expectations and participation escalate quickly.
10. Stricter punishment is continuous and imminent.
11. Gangs take away promise, future and livelihoods.
12. Gangs prey on the innocent, helpless and weak of our community. Fairness, honor and sense of community do not exist.
13. Gangs use threatening behavior to control outsiders and members.
14. The company you keep makes you an accessory. “I don’t do that” won’t keep you innocent.
15. Some decisions can’t be reversed.
16. Being wanted, hiding and an outlaw are not exciting.
17. Gangs use their young members to obtain their wants and needs at the young people’s expense and risk.
18. Gangs serve and help themselves only.
19. Gangs have a poor accumulative and aggregate education.
20. Gangs do not encourage or produce good family values and deprive many of its members a nuclear family and life outside itself.
21. Gangs tell you what you want to hear when you fail to get along with your family, teachers, pastor and friends.
Personal commitment to improve communication, relationships and attitude are easier than the dead-end subservience to a band of criminals and degenerates.
22. Real courage is standing alone against wrong and helping others.
23. Serving God and a gang isn’t possible.
24. The worst day in a family is better than the best day in a gang.
25. Your good citizenship signals gangs that you are not for sale and unapproachable.
26. Everything you don’t know can and will hurt you and second chances are rare in the folds of cruelty, abuse, manipulation and using.
27. What feels wrong probably is – always take your concerns to your parents, teachers, principal, mentors and pastor and they can patiently clarify your questions and concerns. Some decisions are too big to make alone. A gang is like a bad tattoo you wish you’d never gotten and it’s hard to get rid of, all the while being a great chance it will poison you anyway. Say no to permanent marking, scars and a future of nowhere.
YFTC & ITSOO,
Mr. Redwine
THURSDAY BOYS “BULLIES ZERO TOLERANCE PROGRAM”
Thing you should understand about bullies:
1. They use their physical prowess to intimidate others
2. They can suck the fun right out of your life
3. Jealousy and insecurity play a huge role in why they bully others
4. They tear others down to build themselves up
5. They gauge the likelihood of reprisal from those they consider making a target
6. Most are pretty good with the “Eddie Haskell” syndrome, fooling many adults
7. All bullies are cowards and never endeavor an obvious losing situation – they prey on weaker, unconnected and unconfident individuals.
8. Bullies thrive on keeping you in a dark place.
9. They distort life’s preciousness and clarity of value
10. Your misery is their insulin and they need daily shots
11. Bullies don’t like to be alone because they have time to contemplate their emptiness and disgraceful behavior
12. They do not respect differences or people dissimilar of themselves
13. Child bullies unchecked grow into adult bullies
14. Anything they can’t do or have bothers them
15. Bullies often lead groups with members who join from fear of being excluded or targeted as well. These people are enablers and just as guilty
16. Bullies have few and possibly no real friends, surrounded mostly by others who fear them
17. Bullying is not funny and is serious life altering behavior
18. Exclusion, targeting and isolating behavior doesn’t get better by itself
19. Intimidation. superficial and judgmental behavior are major tools of a bully
20. A bully uses his gifts to control and harass others
21. Anyone who preys on and oppresses other people is a bully
22. Complacency begets more aggression
23. There is no such thing as a part-time bully – any makes you one and we all should stand offended and determined
24. Bullies don’t mind making you embarrassed, uncomfortable or disgraced. Their sense of humor is warped and unnatural.
Bad News: Bullies are everywhere
Good News: Their numbers are few and we can band against their tactics and brand of misery.
HERE’S WHAT TO DO:
* Rely on the hundreds of good people who love you and are around to help
* If you are not the target of a bully it is still your problem. Together we can extinguish them altogether. The strong should always protect the weak.
* Report all bullying to parents, mentors, police, campus security, teachers, principals, pastors and friends.
* Bullying is not the end of the world and can be the beginning of the you that stands up for what is right.
* If you are offended by these facts or solutions you might be a bully.
Bullies will not be tolerated at T-Boys, from T-Boys or targeted toward T-Boys
Mr. Redwine
BULLIES BEGET BULLIES:
Life’ saddest repetition is when bullies have children and they become bullies also, or in a stranger twist of fate are bullied themselves and afraid to ask their own parent for help, sensing the identification with the aggressor.
FAMILY NIGHTS AT PULIDO’S
2900 Pulido St
Fort Worth, TX 76107-5712
(817) 732-7571
http://www.mapquest.com/maps?address=+2900+Pulido+St&zipcode=76107
MYTH: You have to be invited – -- --Actually, everyone is welcome and wanted every week!
TIME: 6:30 – 8:00 – Mr. Redwine will be there in the party room on the right when it’s available – on the left all other nights.
WHEN: Every Thursday school meets
WHY: Where to Begin! Ask questions (Q & A) you need to know and learn about Thursday Boys. Get to know the board, staff and volunteers and make some great new friends. Enjoy good food, fellowship and get off the fringe of our wonderful family. Greatly widen your own circle of friendships. Get a chance to spend time with adults while children bond. Tap in to the hundreds of actives who can enrich your lives and blow your mind by how loving and caring they are. Get away from dishes, enjoy a beverage and let someone serve you.
Hope to see you there! YFTC & ITSOO, Mr. Redwine
Dads NIght Out (DNO) or Thursday Boys Men's Fellowship (TBMF)
Tuesday Nights 8pm - 10pm @ The Justin Hall across from the Downtown First Methodist Church. All Dads welcome.
Afterwards, many go out for a snack.
