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Stosh

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  1. I go along with the rest of the comments. All kids at this age struggle, it's a part of life. One of the easy parental "fixes" is to take something away from the child as a punishment. It never works. All that happens is that the parent doubles down on a struggling situation. Yes, scouting is important in the development of the boys and thus should be one of the last resorts for punishment. After all there are plenty of other "punishments" that could be used more effectively, i.e. Xbox, computers, cell phone, TV, and hanging out at the mall with his friends. As mentioned, one would not
  2. Welcome to the forum and good luck with your project!
  3. I used to work with the NE IA Council back in the mid 70's, but I was working at setting up Exploring Posts.
  4. My boys like Duck Wars. Everyone gets a 2' section of closet rod or old broom handle. Squat down with the rod behind your knees. Hook your arms behind the rod and lock fingers in front of knees. From that position each side attacks the other side and tries to knock them over. If they get knocked over or release their hands, they are OUT. Last duck standing wins.
  5. Welcome Vicki, www.inquiry.net has American historical games, might be interesting to review or incorporate a chapter on that.
  6. I like BS 4 Mom, Dad and the kids. I wonder how long it's going to be before they bring back the eagle for adults? Then everyone in the family can be bonding together.
  7. Since when has that ever held any helicopter parent back? It's not the journey, it's the destination and who gets there first. Just remember, the bumper sticker that reads, "My Son is an Eagle Scout" is not there for the scout's benefit.
  8. No difference than if a new pack started with 5 boys, all of different ages. Yet another loophole view outside the box. They'll torque it to make it work.
  9. First of all welcome to the forum! Keeping track of the unit's funds is pretty much a no-brainer. Keep track of what's coming in and what's going out. Keep receipts and pay only what one is directed to pay. Keep the vouchers of what has been paid out. Paper trail either on the books or digitally so as to cover all your bases in an audit. The real headache is the ISA accounts. That's a minefield fraught with political intrigue and extra work that isn't necessary for maintaining the financial integrity of the unit. Personally, I would not take on the task of treasurer in a unit w
  10. Not a problem @WisconsinMomma it just means the competitive field has less participants. I don't care either, but there are a ton of people out there that think differently and they are driving the bus.
  11. With 45+ years of working with co-ed groups (in the US, anyway) it doesn't take a clinical psychologist to notice that the gals dominate not only in the maturity issues, but also pick up quicker leadership and have no problem with asserting themselves at the expense of others. The guys tend to simply let them do their thing and basically ignore them for the most part. Thus co-ed groups are far less competitive than are all male or all female groups at that age. One of the first things everyone is going to notice his that the gals will attain eagle quicker and far more often in that this
  12. I have only three rules where adults can jump in and interfere. 1) Safety first (you covered that one) 2) Look and act like a Scout (breaching the Scout Oath and Law) 3) Have fun (deals with homesickness, bullying, boring program, etc.)
  13. No one wants to PR the fact that they are second place. I give it a few weeks and this will be old news.
  14. By the time the program rolls out, first place will be old news. It will be, at best, a 5 minutes of fame, followed by a real lack of motivation reserved only for a few. After the "champion" has been given appropriate lauds, what's left for the rest of the girls is a tweaked boy program that they may or may not find enriching enough to actually put in the effort. Just like boys reaching the uphill push through star and life, age factors, competitive activities and the realization that there are those that didn't have to do all the hoops to earn it, they will simply fall by the wayside, just
  15. And my response was, what was the need for the report to be released? It is obvious an accident occurred. If every car accident, boating accident, airplane accident, or accident of any type needed to be disclosed in a report, would it in fact reduce accidents? I think not. Thus RS thinks the report should be disclosed, and I asked, why? I don't think the question has been answered yet. Learn from the mistakes of others? Why were these boys not properly trained in the first place? That has nothing to do with the report. Will disclosing the report insure it will never happen again? Pro
  16. I let my boys know up front that they have 100% of my trust in all their decisions they may make. However, if that trust is ever broken, they will never again achieve 100% I then leave it up to them to decide how they wish to proceed. Out of the past 45+ years, that trust has been broken maybe a half-dozen times. The interesting thing about broken trust, the boys that want to earn it back work harder than those that simply maintain it in the first place. The biggest obstacle to this whole thing is whether or not the adults wish to trust in the first place. A few, like me, do. Most d
  17. The missiles in North Dakota were all underground in silos. One would not know they were missiles unless someone pointed them out. They were not marked with anything other than No Trespassing signs. The command posts were nondescript buildings with no identification signs on them other than No Trespassing signs. For the most part, only the locals knew they even existed. The whole idea behind missiles is their locations need to be kept a secret. One does not know how many missiles are sitting around the country in the back of semi-trailers off-base ready to be used in an emergency.
  18. You missed the most important option: Learn from other people's mistakes. It's far less painful and accomplishes the same thing.
  19. We had them in the schools in the Midwest. Would only hold about 50 people. In a town of 5000, one's odds of getting there were slim to none.
  20. Yeah, like 50-75 all at one time..... Make it a ticker-tape parade.
  21. First of all, what's the odds of hitting a power line over a lake? Everyone knows that when a metal rod hits an electrical line, something bad's going to happen. The only "good" that will come from the report is who was at fault so the other two families can sue. This crap happens all the time. Daughter driving a car with mom in passenger seat. hits my dad's car. Mom sues my dad for being on the road and her daughter for driving into my dad. Both insurance companies pay up. That kind of PR makes national news. Better to leave it as is and learn from it in ways other than ju
  22. If all the gal wants is AOL, she can be ready to cross over well before 12/1/18. If she gets into the program in January, is 9 or 10 years of age, knock off AOL be 10 and AOL, she can join the former Boy Scouts program.
  23. Unless one is a looky-loo, why would it make any difference?
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