Leaderboard

If I were to take your list, mix it with my experience, and boil it down ... It would be something like: Patrol pride, Skills mastery, and Brotherly love. You'll likely come up with something different, but a goal is to have a frame of two or three themes to hang your ideas from ... something you won't mind repeating throughout the course so much the boys will think you don't know how to say much else. You could leave them a list, but lists are hard. Frameworks are easy.

I'd think this would be good for a new patrol leader to train on. Some things that come to mind are: - it would be good for them to understand the core responsibilities of a patrol in a few basic scenarios - a camping trip & a troop meeting. Just what is it that a patrol is supposed to do? - get them to work on prioritizing their patrol's goals and then work with the patrol members to accomplish them. Have them work through interruptions to get back on task. Further - I think it would be good to get them to start thinking about how leading and managing are differen

And what does the PL lean on when the SPL/SM/some random adult comes up to a couple of his guys and tells them to come with him, he needs them to do something for him? Nowhere does it say the patrol should be making the decisions. I suspect this wasn't an issue 50 years ago. Lead: with enthusiasm Do: Adventure/Advancement/Skills/Fun Live: the Oath and Law Use: servant leadership Own: your patrol's destiny

We had a couple of scouts in our troop with behavioral issues. We required a parent to come to any event the scout attended as these issues were beyond what we felt we were capable of handling without a parent. One came to summer camp with his dad. His dad had to go into town to log in to get work done. We told him he had to take his son with him. He did the first time. Then he went again and did not take his son. Well, his son used some very inappropriate language with a mom who came to camp that year while the dad was away. We made it abundantly clear that this would never happen

If this kid was getting kicked out of summer camp early, that's probably the same reason they went to Disney without him

Yep...you got played We had that happen a few months ago, called parents, no answer, no parents at the pickup, etc. One of the leaders took the Scout home and left message for parents where they were. Leader had a productive conversation on Sunday outing returns with the parent that afternoon. Challenge is how does one manage the parents while offering the program to the Scout. And that is a tough road to travel down. For our unit the majority live under 5 miles from the church. Some live walking distance and after the trailer is unloaded quite literally strap on the pack and wa

First, you did the right thing and made sure the scout was safe and assuming you had the other adult with you during the dropoff, you followed the YPT rules. I agree that a conversation needs to occur with the parent. They need to understand that this can't happen again. Either make arrangements for someone approved to pick up the kid, or the kid doesn't go.

Absolutely have a conversation with him, from the position of “Hey, we need everyone to pick up their Scout as agreed upon,” and not from “Hey, I was really inconvenienced the other day.” They’re probably not going to fess up, but you will have at least cleared the air and establish expectations for the future. Also put estimated arrival times on the outing’s permission slips (both the signed half and parents’ half), so from now own there can be no confusion.

Definitely send the students home with that. And if that's how you talk, go right ahead quoting it repeatedly. But, if you're not Danish, or riveting, seriously consider your audience and do what needs to done to get in their heads. Be the meme they'll post to their friends. If you want it to be in large print, you have about two words for each point.