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Joe MacDoaks

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  1. On Labor day my sons troop put out American flags in our town. We got done early in the morning and one of the leaders suggested that we take the boys that showed canoeing on a local river. We decided that this was a good idea so we let everyone go home and ask their parents if they could go and we met at the river at 1PM ready to go. One parent asked about a week later why their son wasn''t invited and I told her that this was a spur of the moment decision and that we only asked the boys that had come to flags in the morning to go. I explained that we have two canoe activities planned
  2. These boys come from a good family. Professional Father and a stay at home Mom. Grandparents are active in the family and I go to church with all of them. Father is an ASM and often goes camping with us. Father is perplexed by boys not getting along. Grandmother told me she can't understand why they don't get along. Both boys are patrol leaders. I have talked to SPL and he doesn't know what to do. Boys find fault with the other boy and then tell you how you should give the other one extra stuff to do. We only have one troop in our county so it's not practical to have one boy in anothe
  3. I have three brothers in my troop. The yougest and the oldest brothers just can't get along, they are only two years apart in age. They are always fighting and arguing and comming to me to solve whatever problem they have with each other. Does anyone else have this problem and what can be done about it? What I am planning on doing is talking to each of them and telling them that whatever problems they have with each other are family problems and not mine to solve. They have to solve there own family issues. If they are not physically hurting each other I am not going to intervene. I
  4. For a weekend camp out what troop equipment do you take. My sons troop takes a fully loaded scout trailer. In the trailer they have 20 fire buckets, a large muti burner gas stove they never use, all of the troop tents, cots for each boy, two large dining flies, two large chuck boxes, several large pots for various uses, three plastic totes full of enamel plates bowl cups coffee pots food prep items, three more totes full of other stuff, and a large collection of cast iron, dutch ovens frying pans and a large griddle. They also take several other items they never use. I think that they s
  5. I have pretty much figured out most of the stuff you guys have recommended on my own. I know several people who are not active in scouts because of the current SM. He is very controlling. He doesn't have a single MB counsellor signed up in our town besides himself. I have asked him for the last four years to get me the paperwork so that I could sign up and he hasn't done it. He is well thought of in the community by people that aren't involved in scouts. The commitee and some parents know that he is not running a by the book program. I have three fathers that are willing to help as ASM'
  6. Our CO will often pay our leader fees for campouts and training. If we go on a big outing like Jamboree or to Philmont leaders cover their own fees. If leaders work at fund raisers like suppers or car washes they get a share of the money for their "account". Most of the people in our community understand that it is a big commitment to be a leader and that you can't expect every leader to pay for everything. That being said, I paid for a boy to go to camp last year because his family didn't have the money.
  7. The Scoutmaster of my sons troop will be retiring soon and I will be taking over as Scoutmaster. I am currently serving as an ASM. I am working on getting my Scoutmaster training out of the way and should have it done before next summer when I am scheduled to take over. Our Scoutmaster likes to say that his troop is boy led but he doesnt run it by the book. He picks his SPL because he has to have someone "He can work with". He buys all of the food for camp outs and the boys eat as a troop. The patrols do very little on their own. He plans all of the outings, where the troop camps a
  8. John, I understand what you are saying about how we shouldn't plan for kids to fail but, I also understand that scouts isn't for everyone and some kids will drop out. I know these kids pretty well and I know that the two kids that are the hardest on my son hate to come in second. When we get back from summer camp and they see how far behind they are they will be very upset. One of these kids is a spoiled only son, he gets very frustrated if he doesn't get his way. The other kid is the only one in my Webelos den that didn't get the arrow of light. He blew off two campouts I set up wit
  9. I have not completed any SM training but I am fully trained as a Cub Leader. I am filling in as an ASM during the summer and I am going to Camp. At camp I will take outdoor leader training and I will get most of the indoor training during the year. We have one other ASM, the SM's adult son, he is also an Eagle. Several parents are partially trained and act as ASM's or Cub leaders with sons in the pack and the troop fill in as ASM's at times. My son probably gets picked on by his peers because he is a year younger than most of his peers and a little more imature. He is also small
  10. I was asked by the SM, CM, and the CO to take the SM job. While I was a Cub Leader I did two groups every year. My kids sold the most popcorn and had a good time. I also encouraged us to spend more on the kids and the Cub Program has improved during my time as a Cub Leader. Our SM says that the kids he has gotten from Webelos have been the most prepared kids he has ever had. Eight of the eleven kids that I had as webelos have earned the arrow of light, and I mean earned it. I have also been kind of a bridge between the CM and the SM who don't get along. I enjoy working with the kids but
  11. I have been a Cub leader for the last three years and I have been asked to be the new SM for the troop that my son is in. My son is in school with most of the kids in his patrol. My son is youger than most of the kids he crossed over with, many people in our area hold boys back a year for sports. Some of the kids in his patrol don't treat my son well, they make fun of him and they act like sharing a tent with him is a punishment. When I was my sons Webelos leader many parents would ask me why my son got more pins than their kids, I explained that I was familiar with the book, having do
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