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alpineer

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  1. Many years ago when stationed out west I started up a troop and had a young lieutenant as my assistant. Neither of us had boys in scouts yet and we only had 6 boys in our troop. We had more fun and interaction in that small troop than you can imagine. Nowadays I'm involved in a troop that is made up of 25 boys and 12 adults. The adults hang out by themselves as do the boys. I'm the only adult that seeks the company of the boys. I don't see any clear way of changing this trend and think I will eventually strike out on my own again when my younger son is ready for scouts.(This message has
  2. Tell that young lad thank you for me! I have a group of bored older boys that have been dying to get paintball introduced as a troop activity. Of course since that isn't allowed at least this would give these older boys an opportunity to share their interest and knowledge with the rest of the troop. And who says they can't get together and go paintballing on a non-scouting outing?
  3. Like SueM said use your vision! What great changes would you like to see for your unit, district or council? Don't get tunnel vision and think that you can only work within your unit and be open minded until it is actually time to write the ticket so you can apply what you've learned in the course. Also remember the part about leaving a legacy.
  4. To the original poster I've found that if you are an invaluable assett to the council and or district and ask if you can be on Wood Badge staff the chances are greatly increased of you getting to staff a course. As far as some of the old course finding it's way into the new course I've seen it happen and it wasn't intentional. Things get so busy during the course that old course people can make mistakes.
  5. I was assuming you are a registered leader. If you are a visiting dad who only makes a campout or two a year then I would encourage you to tent with your son.
  6. Our boy scouts tent with their patrol members. This gives them a sense of independence and most boys wouldn't think it's very cool to tent with dad anyway. I don't think there are any written rules about it but I would try to discourage it.
  7. Thanks for the comments. I'm afraid I'll alienate these parents if I'm not extremely tactful about how I handle this but the troop is there for the boys and not for parents who didn't have the opportunity to be Scouts when they were kids. I guess I'll have to convince some of the parents that not all meetings are family events. Wish me luck and thanks for welcoming me to the forum.
  8. Our troop has about 25 active youth at our weekly meetings. In addition there are about 12 adults at our meetings as well. Most of the parents that come are registered leaders (assistants or committee). The problem is that I think we have too many adults standing around at the back of the room blabbing while we're trying to conduct our meetings. I was a scout myself and in my opinion the boys can't loosen up and have fun because of the presence of all the adults. I would love to have three to four engaged leaders present and would prefer not to have the other inactive adults present at al
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