EagleDadx3

Personally, I like the new workbook over the previous one. It stresses Leadership of others over organization and planning (which was a bit off balance). The other requirements remain the same. I think going forward; we will see that the Scouts will have taken on more challenging projects since they are not as hung up on the planning stage. One part that I dont care for is in the Message From the Chief Scout Executive, An Eagle Scout project is a crowning achievement following years of fun, adventure, and advancement. In completing it, you provide an example for others that they can do the same thing. It sounds like the project is the capstone of the scouting career. The Eagle Rank is not graduation from scouting.

A couple years ago at summer camp, a few of the boys bought one of those fold-out saws from the comessary and were caught cutting down young, live trees. (One of the boys was about 195+ pounds and actually tried to hide behind a three inch tree. It was difficult not to laugh and keep on task). We sat the boys down, had them teach (supervised) Knife & Ax to some new scouts needing their tottin' chip, then they were required to re-memorize the Outdoor code and tell us what it meant to them and finally, since this occurred at camp, they did a service project where they could use their sawing skills (and energy) to repair the fence surrounding the Ax Throwing yard.

I always thought "Copyright" meant you have the right to copy! Right?

For each of my three Eagle sons, we gave them Silver Eagle Coins with the year they made Eagle.

I am now an Eagle Mentor and have been looking for Eagle Stepping Stones as a gift to remind the new Eagle that his new rank is not the final destination, but a stepping stone on the Scouting journey. The Eagle Stepping Stones I have found on line are for the Philadelphia Eagles.

How about an "Asylum" of Scouters.

Seems to fit!

I agree. As scouters we have to be very careful volunteering the boys. I have found this at church as well. Many times people have taken for granted my sons' abilities to tote things or provide manual labor or be "Good Deed Doers". The boys are willing, but don't yet know how to say no.

We live in a different time. The boys have very full schedules. They have more homework than I can remember and more involved in extracurricular activities. Adding more volunteer projects could push them over the edge.

The NFL is not a Not for Profit organization, so this could not be counted as a service project. It could be considered an outing though.

I always thought that "copyright" meant you had the "right to copy"!

Really, your collection put on a CD for convenient, personal, playback is O.K. but the minute you play it, or disseminate it in any form, you need to pay royalties to the copyright owner, (Including "Happy Birthday" by the way! The copyright is owned by Time-Warner!)

Even if you are giving the CDs away, the copyright owner has a claim to some remuneration. You may be able to get around this, if you get permission from each of the copyright holders to use their work for your purposes, but that would be up to them.

I had one new scout that took to calling me by my first name.

I have no idea why, but he tended to "bond" to me as opposed to any of the other leaders. All of the other kids (except my kids) called me Mr Baum. It bothered me a little at first, but he meant no disrespect and was a little socially challenged, so I just smiled and let him "get away with it". Now that my boys are getting to be ASMs (over 18 and still active, doing their three year apprenticeship as adult leaders), it may get a little confusing to call all of us Mr Baum. Although my sons wife is Mrs baum to some of them since she is their teacher. I think Mr (firstname) might be a regional anomaly. I used to think it was an Hispanic cultural custom that was translated over to English. Another problem is when the leaders use first names to refer to each other and the kids don't know to whom they are referring.

This is all too confusing. As long as the kids are not being disrespectful it really doesn't matter.

Allen

I think we might be able to keep more adults if we look at why adults stay.

Most ex-scouters can tell you exactly why they quit, but it's a little more difficult to understand why we stay.

There are a lot of "negatives" in any organization. Where there are people, eventually, there will be conflicts. We can blame training, communication, differences of opinion, etc. These stresses can make it easy to quit. They can also be a reason to stay. Some people thrive on stress and conflict, others chose to leave. I don't believe this is healthy for the organization.

There must be some need that being a scouter fills: serving our youth, adult fellowship, camping, fun, and conversely, power, control, domination, etc. Sometimes scouter will hang around just to see what the heck will happen next! That being said, if the reason or reasons for a particular scouter to stay in scouting is taken away, the scouter will find a reason to leave.

If we nurture the positive needs of scouters, we will lose fewer of them.

You don't expect us to be on line , posting, on our day off, do you?

 I did a quick Google on "Multiple Rapture". I hope it's not true. I don't retire until 2025!

You don't expect us to be on line , posting, on our day off, do you?

 I did a quick Google on "Multiple Rapture". I hope it's not true. I don't retire until 2025!

My first encounter with a GPS was up at Camp Mac in northern Wisc. Another Scouter had one (they were fairly new and very expensive at the time) and once we got to our site, he told us that the parking lot was 150 yards and pointed in the direction on his new GPS. I told him "Yup!"

I received one as a gift last Christmas and found it useful to hold down the map on windy days. Now that I've figured it out a little, we use it to measure distances traveled either on foot or bicycle. We also found a GeoCache at Indiana Dunes. It was an old ammunition box with trinkets inside. The boys added a patrol patch. It was a Family Campout (our troop invites the whole family to a campout in early fall, just to find out why we don't invite them the rest of the year), anyway, one of the scout's sisters actually found it while the boys were trying to zone in on the coordinates using the GPS. She went on and on about it and left a hair scrunchee in it and wrote the story on the notepad.

Basically, the GPS is a fun toy. The kids like to borrow it to track hikes and stuff.

First of all, I can understand that the Committee Chair wants to promote outings and camping. These are essential parts of Scouting. However, not all boys are campers; there needs to be a place for them in the troop also.

Even the Committee Chair can't impose requirements for advancement that are not already in place. He may be saying that campouts are required to show Scout Spirit which is required for advancement.

In our troop, the boys implemented a rule that said Scouts must attend 2/3 of the weekend campouts in order to attend Summer Camp.

As for your other questions:

Or is it that this CC wants complete control??

Yes, and hes out of control. Reel him in.

Doesn't the scoutmaster have some say?

Yes, and so does the rest of the committee.

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