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  1. Woohoo! local girl makes good! As soon as I heard this story on the evening news I *knew* she must have been a Scout ) I want to get in touch with her and have her visit our troop! Anne in Mpls
  2. Eamonn, I am so sorry for your loss. I''ve always loved hearing you tell about the special place these creatures have in your life and your family. Love is a Good thing, with a capital G - and so because it is so very real, it will include hurt sometimes. Peace ot you and yours! Anne in Mpls
  3. Cool thread idea! Helloooo Highcountry! If you asked your most active/enthusiastic scouts what do they think are your troop''s greatest strengths and weaknesses, what would they say? Anne, playin the homegame in Mpls
  4. Good morning Lisa! How are things going for the troop and this young man? Anne in Mpls
  5. Thanks everyone for the reality check My committee chair fortunately came to the same realization about the time I was drafting a third version of a whiny I cant do it email. The mom is now suggesting we switch the meetings from Thursdays to Fridays My CC says that while it would work for her, that that is a really big switch to make and we agree we might lose many more girls in the process. So, we reiterated to mom that we''re ok with them having to leave meetings early if that''s a solution that works for them. And I would change up the meeting agenda so that her daughter
  6. Arrrrgh. So, I litereally single-handed kept our GS troop afloat after some nasty business with a former asst. leader. We''re rebuilding finally, I have an excellent CC, a couple parents willing to drive and chaperone, and we''re beginning to recruit again. We''d gotten as low as 7 active girls during this transitionary period. Now, I have one mom who nearly blew my face off complaining that her girls always miss out, are always contacted last, never get to participate, etc. *They never show up for meetings*, they moved two suburbs away and chose to continue in our troop. I did eve
  7. Did you say you lost your CC? Do what you can to get that position filled by someone who has the excellent skills in delegating and activating those goofy parents. Then you can move on without guilt knowing you''ve left the troop in capable hands. But I wouldn''t go without the CC filled capably, and a ready-to-go new SM. Anne in Mpls
  8. Nah, you can't base your next move on their answer. Who knos? Maybe they'll sing you a song of wine and roses and still act like they do Besides, you're giving up your personal power when you decide to only react to what they do. You need to make your decisions regardless of what they say or do. So, step one, is to write down concretely what your motivations and goals are. For instance, your goal might be to help 90% of your den to arrow of light. Or, your goal might be to Sleep Well at Night. Now, you might then have totally different options depending on what your goal is, or....y
  9. I'd like to clarify that just because you "have an aspie in the family" does *not* mean you know how every person with Aspergers expresses their disability. There is wide wide wide variation: some are very quiet and compliant, but this is not the majority of folks with aspergers! My own kiddo truly believes, really really emphatically believes, that in order for people around her to understand that she is upset, that she must scream shrilly at the top of her lungs. Now, she's done fine at summer camp, day camp, all the rest of it, but I prep the adults working with her to expect "the scream
  10. No, Land of the Silver Birch goes: Doot doo-doo doo-doo doot Dooo doo-doo doo-doo And The Paddle Song (which is so not the name of it! but anyway) it goes: Doo-doo doo doo-doo-doo doo-doo doo doo-doo HTH Anne in Mpls There's a blue sky why up yonder There's a blue sky over my head! There's a blue sky way up yonder That's a cover for my bed! And wherever I wander and wherever I roam There's a blue sky way up yonder that's callin me home!
  11. Ok, found another good article: really accessible. Sorry for the advertizing! Anne in Mpls http://school.familyeducation.com/aspergers/parenting/36123.html
  12. Establishing a rapport with one consistent person can help a great deal. Is there perhaps one committee member who can be this person for this young man? It *is* draining for the troop leadership - they have enough on their plates, and the boy's needs are likely greater than can be handled by the boy leadership - PLs and so forth, unless you've got some stellar JASM types. Aspergers is a tricky thing - it can look totally different form one kid to another. This is partly because youngsters will try just about anytihng to try to cope ontheir own with a disability that goes mostly unrecogni
  13. You've gotten some good suggestions already. Just want to make sure we don't overlook the importance of PLAY. The running around-acting like a kid-hanging off a tree-playing tag-wrestling for the ball-tackling the grownups kinda of play that kids just never get enough of. Talk to your PLC about adding 15 minutes at the start of the meeting to "blow off steam". Take a look at the current thread we had going on playing tag. Take a good look at your meeting space and decide whether it fosters active play - do you have outdoor space, trees to climb, etc? Blue skies! Anne in Mpls
  14. Hello again, I'm not familiar with NSO's...could you supply the meaning for the acronym, please? Actually, many WAGGGS member countries associations allow alternate wording for the promise and laws to accomodate expression of differing faiths. I'm not at all familiar with WOSM - do they require greater uniformity? I've just revisited their website today, and there are numeorus changes. The Statement of Faith has been revised - agreed, it is less exclusionary than the previous version. And their logo has been changed, so my preceeding post is now moot. I'm with Juliette Lo
  15. I have to admit to being rather curious as to how AHG justifies the use of the US Flag in their own logo: The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature. (U.S. Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 8(g)) (The AHG official flag, is the *US flag* with sillouettes of two girls in dresses running across it.) Anne in Mpls
  16. Scoutnut's (strongly-worded) reply was spot-on. Yes, GSUSA has taken a lot of flak for spelling out clearly that we are a diverse organization. No, GSUSA has *not* "taken God out of scouting". For heaven's sake if you believe, then you know God can never be taken out of anything anyway. I'm pleased your daughter is experiencing a scouting program - I've looked over the AHG website and see a lot that is very good. However, as a Christian, and as a Catholic, I could never sign their protestants-only statement of faith that is required for adults in AHG. Furthermore, I am continually enr
  17. I just googled xvgaoke to see if there's any fixes out there. Apparently nothing yet, and google hit on 3 pages of completely unrelated websites that all seem to be infected with this same thingy. It also came up with the actual site address, but I am loathe to click on it or even on the chached version of it to see what it really is. How do we report this to folks who write the fixes for these things?? Anne in Mpls
  18. Ok, I've been checking my history, and nothing fishy is showing up there, but I did just notice that that scr thinky is showing up at the vbery top in the title bar sometimes. It's there sometimes when I'm reading a forum, but it's not there now as I'm typing this reply. Is this something that might need to be cleaned from each of our machines?? How do we get a fix for it? Thanks! Anne in Mpls
  19. I'm on a Windows Vista machine, running IE. When this mess first started up, I got the message at the top of the IE window asking my permission to run that Data Control thingy. I did a search for it in Windows Help, and online. Nothing untoward popped up there, and it said it was from Microsoft, so I oked it. Since then, and still today, I am getting weird extra text at the top of the window, sortof a descriptor for the website, but not quite grammatical, and ending with a >. So there's still something fishy in Denmark Peace and all good! Anne in Mpls
  20. Ah - you misunderstand. These are the new Official Cub Scout ® Capris. In cooler weather, you can zip the rest of the length on for a traditional "pants" look. (Tsk tsk. Parents just don't understand *fashion*) Anne, tongue-in-cheek in Mpls
  21. There might be two different issues here... First off, you might just be dealing with one particular family that lets their own child get away with stuff that isn't permitted by the rest of the families. Or, you might be too harsh in tone when stopping this behavior. A lot of this can be halted with a wink of the eye, a *look*, a brief "unh-unh" reminder. Or perhaps it's not a harsh tone, but too long a lecture. Once the boys hear it from you once, they get where you stand - no need to repeat, just "unh-unh". Or the ever-popular "give it here" said in a totally bored tone of voic
  22. The rest depends on the kids indeed! Yha, we meet tomorrow night, and I am leaning towards postponing till late August when water levels tend to rise a bit. (but this darn drought might decide to stick around even then...) With water levels this low, I might even get away with calling it wading instead of canoeing on our trip plans I've been staring at the durned water guage charts for 2 weeks straight now. Keep hoping this off and on rain we're getting might *do* something. And I was hoping you all might magically see something other than what I'm seeing on it
  23. Good morning folks! We're planning a very short paddle on a very calm uninteresting part of the St. Croix (I've paddled it before and am just getti my feet wet in planning float trips with our troop - oh dear...pun unintended!) weekend after next. We're looking at Soderbeck landing to Hwy 70 - yup, told you it was short!. Anyway, water level is around 3.25. Is that way too low??? Our outfitter is of course perfectly happy renting to us no matter what the water level is! Thanks! Anne in Mpls
  24. Thanks everyone Oh yes, *I* remember jungle breakfasts! One of our patrols is doing an early morning hike so that's basically what they'll be packing along. I ran across a recipe for gingerbread in orange peel shells - now that one sounds like it would be helped by the orange flavor rather than harmed I could also use more tips on the biscuits - we had let the fire burn down to coals, but the biscuits turned out more smoked and gummy than cooked/toasted. (What I mean to say is, they turned to gummy blobs covered with black soot/ash. Not appetizing!) I would bet the tinfoil over t
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