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  1. Scout continually delays group by not obeying or following through 1 2

    By skeptic,
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  2. From "The Scoutmaster's Blog"

    By skeptic,
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  3. Scoutmaster's Conference Delimma 1 2 3 4

    By Twocubdad,
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  4. I need some fun ideas for training youth

    By SueVerner,
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  5. Hooking youth: Fishing is a pathway to nature for America's children

    By fgoodwin,
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  6. Youth Member vs. Former Member

    By qwazse,
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  7. "...even if you lose and help somebody it`s still worth it."

    By LeCastor,
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  8. No one-on-one contact - how do I do that over the phone? 1 2

    By SueVerner,
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  9. How do I explain this to a scout? 1 2 3

    By MattR,
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  10. Running Crew Troubles

    By acwgxc,
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  11. When should an adult step in?

    By dedkad,
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  12. Scouts is Uncool 1 2 3 4 8

    By Sentinel947,
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  13. Biggest youth problems 1 2

    By FrugalProf,
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  14. Helping Scouts With Objections

    By qwazse,
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  15. Alleged drug use; how would you handle? 1 2 3 4

    By Rayburn,
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  • LATEST POSTS

    • 5thGenTexan
      We're terrible at marketing

      By 5thGenTexan · Posted

      We have a public FB page.  And I don't have $5 a month to setup a webpage unfortunately.  
    • Khaliela
      We're terrible at marketing

      By Khaliela · Posted

      Create a FB page--It's free. The girls won't share this, but their parents will, which means other girl's parents will see it, too. Have the girls make short videos they can post on Tic Tok, Insta, and reels. Don't do the stupid "Please join" video either. Have them show something cool like ziplining, with captions like "look what we did last weekend!" When word gets out that the girls are doing cool things, you'll have recruits. Set up a webpage--It's easy to do and will cost $5/month. In today's world, if you don't have a webpage, you don't exist. My experience with marketing is with writing groups, not scouts, but the same principals apply--most groups don't do any kind of marketing. By just publicly posting our weekly meeting times on Meet-up, we grew for 11 people to 50 people in just one year. By upping the game and creating a webpage (www.palousewritersguild.org), the group now has over 300 members and is able to host writers festival every summer. As you can see it's a pretty simple page, but it lets people know what we're doing and where we meet. It also provides a way for people to contact us with questions. You really don't need much more than that.
    • Eagledad
      Is there or is there not a uniform standard in Scouts BSA?

      By Eagledad · Posted

      I have no problem discussing uniform advances, but We can’t have discussions of improving marketing and give up the uniforms at the same time. Boy Scouts have been identifiable by their uniform since the program started 110 or so years ago. Barry
    • Mrjeff
      Is there or is there not a uniform standard in Scouts BSA?

      By Mrjeff · Posted

      More functional, I'm not exactly sure what that means.  Ever since the old OD green uniforms there has been a bunch of revisions to style, material, pockets, and there are a lot of choices.  The individual was clearly part of the larger group, and the attire received far more then a passing glance.  If someone showed up wearing a speedo and a tank top, or a string bathing suit there would have been an outcry.  Civil disobedience,  what if a member showed up wearing a Hitler Youth uniform, that youth would have been removed.  But, the powers don't seem to be interested in maintaining a positive public image.  Whisper, laugh, ignore, or tolerate,  either way let's just throw the standard away and don't worry about it.   
    • skeptic
      Statement by the United Methodist Church

      By skeptic · Posted

      Some of that is also due to the changes in the church memberships, especially with older units likeours.  In the thirties through early sixties, we had huge youth involvement in the church, and the units reflected that too.  As the population shifted away from our end of the city, the youth went with it, and now the largest units are on the opposite end of the town.  And the income levels also shifted that way so that our draw slowly became from the lowest income areas and oldest housing.  Now we struggle as was here noted, but we have managed barely to keep the pack.  We had a very large feeder for years at a school, but they moved to a church, then folded not long afterwards.  Getting the cubs to visit to transition is hard, especially with the numbers and struggle with progam due to barely enough leaders able to do outdoor even at the minimum.  Out history is a plus, as we are the oldest unit in the council by far, but that only goes so far, especially with the odd historical disintruest it seems in society in general.  Finally of course, the biggest problem now is the CYA fears in the larger Church with the CO attacks by the black feathered ones.  JMHO of course.  Just note that, depending on your spiritual beliefs, there has never been a perfect human, and since all groups are made of us, that is a challenge.  

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