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Never let anyone auto renew. Ever. You lose control in that automatic charges will be incurred without notice, even if a scout has dropped out.

There is almost continual debate over how many knots someone should wear, not wear, or even at all. As a Scouter who was in as a youth, I will say that to younger scouts it matters less, but to older scouts they see those knots as something they can obtain themselves someday. It helps pull aging out scouts to become scouters to continue service to our organization. That said, I wonder if the uniform would be slightly less cluttered (for some with excessive knots) as well as ability to tailor for the needs if scouting moved back to the Ribbon Bar concept like Exploring currently does, or as

I came across a posted xlsx document with what is purported to be the new CS program. Looking through it, I came across this extremely fun sounding requirement in several of the ranks: Review your BSA Annual Health and Medical record with your parent or guardian. Discuss your ability to participate in pack and den activities. Now if that doesn't sound like an amazingly fun time for a 3rd grader, I don't know what does. The Webelos have this required gem: Learn about majority and plurality types of voting. Speak with someone who is elected to their position.

I wear my Eagle knot, and none others. (Not even sure what knots I might have earned, though, District Award of Merit, and Silver Beaver, are among them.) It is all about the youth. Not about me. I have at least 8 Eagle mentor pins. (Our troop has had the practice of only having an Eagle presenting a single Mentor Pin. Eagles one per I wear none of them. Those who need or want to know, they know.

I interpreted that as GSUSA backpedaling and pretending that this Unit acted in compliance with their rules when it looked like GSUSA was going to look bad

We track Scout accounts using Scoutbook. Scoutbook produces a report to tell you how much each Scout has or owes, and tracks your unit cash balance. We use a separate spreadsheet to track all unit income and expenditures for the year. But we do not do it very well 😉 I'd share that with you but it would requires redacting a lot of data and names associated with training expenditures, Scouts joining (dues), camperships, etc

A Cub is permitted to wear his Progress Toward Rank patch (although it's not really a patch, what DO you call that thing) over top another temporary patch. I seem to recall there is one more item which can hang in front of a temporary patch, but I don't really remember what. Since it seems like all activity patches now come with a loop to hang them off the shirt button, a lot of boys wear several patches hanging from the button. I wouldn't burst a kid's bubble over it though. If he's proud of all those patches, great. The mom who is sewing the entire patch collection all over th

What we did for our boys who earned the Conservation badge was to sew it on their right pocket (temporary patch pocket). We then allow the scouts to wear another activity patch in a plastic holder over the top of it (on the button). Probably not the best solution, but it does seem to work. Some even wear their Progress towards Ranks on top of that. So much stuff on a button. Many boys even have the Whittlin' Chip patch sewn right under the conservation badge, yet still on the pocket. Creative moms, I figure! Now I'm not saying it's right, but it really isn't wrong (like the one cu

Two cub Dad - I would've bet you were right - only I thought it was above the LEFT pocket, in place of the world scouting emblem - so I looked it up, and we're both wrong! Well, maybe - it doesn't say that the conservation patch is a "temporary insignia", if it is, it goes on the Right pocket - and it would be covered up by the Arrow points / compass patch attached to your shirt pocket button. the conservation patch is an INTERNATIONAL award - and I can't find anything, cub scout or boy scout, that says exactly where it, specifically, should go, or that the boy scout can't wea

According to the Insignia Guide, that is correct, it goes on the right pocket as a temporary patch. But before I looked it up, I would have bet good money that it went above the right pocket, in the same location as Jamboree patches. I know I didn't make that up, but can't find any of my old insignia stuff right now. Does anyone know if that's a recent change.