Keep the kids out of trouble

My daughter got invited to a Wyldlife meeting last week. Wyldlife is a sort of youth group for junior high age kids. They meet every week and have fun and (I assumed) fellowship which (I assumed) includes teaching and encouraging clean living, i.e., no drinking, no drugs, no hanky panky, just good, clean fun. I was all for it! My daughter was hesitant because she is leary of churches and organized religion and was afraid she would be embarrassed or put on the spot. I told her I thought she should go and find out what it was like. Well, she loved it! It was at a friend's house. Apparently they rotate from house to house each week. When I asked what they did she told me,

We decorated cookies and made prank phone calls!
My brows knit but I held my tongue and pressed on.
Were there counselors?
Yes, they were playing foos ball.
Was there a theme or a lesson?
Yeah, decorating cookies and making prank phone calls!

This can't be true. My thoughts revert to my own youth group days in the hot church attic that had been relegated to the youth. We had themes! We had lessons! We had leaders! My youth group leader was a state senator! In fact I just read about him, he's now a citizen of the Virgin Islands and was just indicted for tax problems........... Oh no.