jksolomon

Meh...reading through a lot of these posts, I'm a bit flabbergasted. I hope as much effort is being spent working with the boys in the program as there is questioning the program. I guess we could question the program ad nauseum...do we REALLY need a Family Life merit badge, camping, etc, etc, leader positions, the Eagle project itself. I don't believe SCOTUS or POTUS are meaningless because they don't have meaning outside the United States. If groups want to use their own internal acronyms, why should that be an issue? One proverb I believe I've found to be true: "1 fool can ask

Hey, new to this forum, but thought I'd take a crack at Clemlaw's question. There is a leadership theory out in the non-BSA world that follows EDGE quite closely. It's called situational leadership. It's practically a mirror of leading EDGE. I think we use the term EDGE because it's easy to look at the acronym and remember the steps. As to why a scout has to use teaching EDGE to teach another scout how to tie a square knot? The principles of tell, show, guide, step back and enable are proven teaching techniques that are invaluable for a boy to learn if he is going to become a leader. A