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Eagledad

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  1. >>National Certificate of Merit
  2. >>We don't have a formal "policy", but common sense prevails: * Only folding knives for everyday uses. No sheath knives. The only fixed blade knives are in the kitchen or the tackle box. * Knives are not for hanging from belts. However, a leather pouch on the belt is fine.
  3. >>After I teach wood tools, the scouts will take a test, if they do not pass. To bad, they do not earn there totin'chip. They will not have another opurtunity untill the next time it is taught.
  4. Hi All Isn't interesting that we don't think twice about driving a 5000 lb car loaded with family down a crowded highway at 70mph, but a dinky little piece of metal keeps us away at night. What is the difference? A camp nurse taught us a few years back that far more injuries come from the saw than the axe or hatchet. In fact he couldn't remember any axe injuries, but had a long list of saw injuries. Problem with the saw is that any flex in the blade can make it jump off it's line. Flex is caused when we use it to fast or put to much force on the blade while cutting. When this happens
  5. Boy! makes me want to be a cub scout again. Great program. When I was the District Membership Chair, your program is basically what I trained pack leaders to build. I complement you on awards recognition at den meetings. We started doing that and found the cubs and parents really liked it. I like the campouts too, you might consider doing a campfire at a nearby park in the spring or fall for a Pack meeting. A change of atmosphere is always fun and you can roast marsh mellows after the meeting for smores. Oh, I love this scouting stuff. Barry
  6. Hi All Once in a while whether pushes us into the indoor mode and we will do a lockin, or visit a museum. Once we contacted the YMCA and they let us do a lockin there, for a fee of course. Only once did we cancel because of adults, but that was more of a timing and location problem. So we found a site within a few minutes of town to allow adults to drive back and forth. I like the idea of hooking up with another troop. I can see a lot of fun advantages with doing that. In fact, maybe we should do more of that anyway. HAve a great week. Barry
  7. >>This is not a call for the Scoutmaster to make. It is the responsibility of the Board of Review to "review" how the advancement took place.
  8. >>If you allow the award to stand, you are rewarding and even encouraging bad behavior.
  9. Hi all Based off the limited imformation, I would not change the results. However, there are two things I would do. It is important that the scout be held accountible for his behavoir. I would let him know my disapointment and that he lost my trust. He will have to prove himself to me in the future. Then I would bring all the adult together for a meeting and explain the program all about encouraging behavoir based from the values of the scout law and oath. Then I would talk a little about the rights and wrongs of what just happened. If you don't end it with the adults, it won't end.
  10. >>depending on the leadership team you get each time you conduct Troop elections. Maybe that's another argument for a dynamic, modular youth training curriculum.
  11. What you just described is basically the present JLTC. It's a good idea and when you work the kinks out, you will have a good TJLT program. I'm not saying it's wrong or that it won't work because we ran something like what you're talking aobut. I am saying that you should train where the troop is weak. I like to tell SPLs at JLTC that when planning their next TJLT, look at the PL Handbook and find the areas of program where the troop is weak. Look at the SPL Handbook and find the areas where leadership is weak. Build your TJLT on those areas. If I may pass a little more of my exper
  12. Hi KS I've done a few of these as well as lockins, and indoor overnights and other ideas as well. We found that the scouts enjoyed indoor overnight TJLTs more than outdoor because they already camp at least once a month and like something a little different. My goal was to create an environment that encourage the scouts to focus on the JLT lessons being taught. Running a TJLT required a lot of time from older scouts and adults, so we looked for the most bang for our buck and two days indoors turnout to give us what we wanted. I think the ideal campsite, knots and lashings, cooking
  13. >>Just as a curiosity, in the previous edition of Wood Badge, how was the ticket process handled?
  14. Wow, what great timing. I just got called and told that I am giving the Vision and Mission presentation at our course this April. Since I have not seen the new WB course in action, I didn't realize what this is all about. I am reading all the comments with a lot of heart. As for the tickets, I've already heard from folks in our last October course say they feel overwhelmed by their tickets. I thought that odd because they only have five compared to the nine we had in the old course. I don't really remember anyone feeling overwhelmed by the tickets in the old course. After reading this sub
  15. >>I understand your viewpoint, but I think I'd consider mentorship/reflections and TJLT as complementary, rather than the former as a substitute for the latter.
  16. >>I'm optimistic that the new TJLT curriculum will be more responsive to unit needs.
  17. >>Eagledad, Quite the contrary, rather than ignoring junior leader training, the BSA has been focusing on it. For the past two years a national task force has been reviewing and revamping junior leader training.
  18. >>I always thought TJLT fit under and is one of the cornerstones of the "Leadership Development" method. Am I out in left field?
  19. Great Day All Boy, I have a problem with much of this. I need to start by saying I am the Council JLT Chairman. My responsibilities are encouraging and development of all the JLT programs in our Council. The problem in the past few years has been that the BSA has kind of ignored JLT in the Unit. JLTC or Brownsea or what ever your Council program is called has been more of a priority. National has seen the ill effects of this and is working on changes. That Bob calls unit JLT (TJLT) kind of leads to me wonder if that is what they are going to call it. I have not received anything offi
  20. >>And once we found and killed that wooly mammoth,
  21. HI All A new Bass Pro Shop opened here last month just in time for Christmas. My 17 year-old son and I went to check it out. As we ventured into the tent section, I noticed an old single pole canvas Boy Scout tent on display. Look, that is the same tent I used in scouts I said pointing to the display. My son looked at the floorless canvas tent and replied, looked really heavy dad, and then strolled on to the backpacks. I stood there staring at the tent while a flood of memories, emotions and smells ran through my mind. There was my first Boy Scout campout where a cold front came throug
  22. We ask our SPL to attend our adult meetings when I was SM. We found that both the scouts and the adult benefit from it. It's easy to call specail meetings for sensitive discussions. If there was any draw back from it, I would say that scouts are pretty busy at this age and it could be a burden. But you have two SPLs and no reason why ASPLs can't go either. Personally I would like to take SPLs to round table, but again the time and structure of the meetings doesn't make that comfortable for the scout. I feel that if the SPL runs the troop, he should get all the handouts and informat
  23. >>You said to identify the dens that need help and help them. The problem is that they don't want help and wont accept it.
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