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As a Cubmaster I recommend to my Den Leaders that we are not a baby sitting service, we are a family oriented activity that requires more than just dropping off a boy for an hour a week. Some Den Leaders take my advice some don't, the ones that don't usually come to me frustrated about little johnny not listening or little timmy disturbing the boy beside him. Tundra Hawk I would express the Family involvement to all of you parents and strongly request that one of the parents be with the boy at every meeting. Let them know that once they get into Boy Scouts that is when they can start dro

Greg, I know how you feel, trust me I do, but don't get dishearted. As a Cubmaster for our pack I am still in a learning phase and I am considering this year as the trail and error, or practice year. What I learn this year about what to do and what not to do will help me for the following year. As a pack with only 30 boys we had about 1/3 participation for SFF this year, even though I promoted, promoted and promoted this event with everything from flyers, calls and the back pack system at school. Just realize that some people will not show when there is "work" involved but will be 1st in

sfg.... just curious, are you in the Flint River Council? That is close to what we are doing this year. This will be my first year as program director for our Day Camp, and I am looking for ideas as well. YIS Andy

Proud Eagle, you are correct, there are several camps in the reservation; Camp Stahlman, Camp Parnell, Camp Craig, Gaylord CubWorld, and the Percy Dempsey Camporee site. Word has it that Camp Stahlman is the best, we stayed in Camp Craig and it was just fine.

Trader John, I used to be in the Middle Tennessee Council and have been to Boxwell a couple of times. My oldest boy has been there more often. I have to say that it would be well worth the 561 mile trip. They have a new pool facility, a large lake for fishing and swimming, hiking trails, deer galore and paved roads to most locations in the camp. The tents are your typical platform canvas style tents and the food is excellent. Man, thinking about it make me wish the council I am in now had as good of a camp. I am hoping to get our troop here to do summer camp there one year.

Not sure how you want to approach this in your situation. I am Cubmaster and I have a family that has a total of 6 kids (thru marriage) 3 of the boys are in the pack, these parents with both working barely have enough to pay the bills much less by uniforms for thier boys. I talked to my District Executive about some help with this family, either National or Council has a program to help families that just simply cannot afford to by the uniforms. The council donated a shirt, hat and council patch to each of the boys, we as a pack furnished them with the pack number and neckerchief. B

SP, Wow!!!!! That sounds awesome, I think we may have to use something like that when our boys cross over. Kudos to who thought that one up!! Andy

I want to thank everyone for your responses to my plea, I think by actually talking about something is the beginning of a healing process. Eamonn, I believe that I am a nice guy, too. After reading a few other topics here I have found the root of the problem. Sometimes I am so nice of a guy that I will do something myself rather than asking another to burden their life with the task. This has actually been an eye opening experience. I have called the CC and asked her to call a special meeting of the Committee this week. With this meeting I am going to get back to what I do best, I am

Semper, After reading it I am not sure who it is either!! Actually, the "Acting" CC is the Webelos 2 Den Leader, she does a good job but she will be leaving in the Spring. I will start reading some of the other threads, thank you. BTW, They all know that I need some help, they just won's step up to the plate. They are too "busy", sometimes that makes me sick, if you could see my schedule I would be classified as a busy man.

This may be a little twist to what you are used to hereing. I have been a scouter now for a couple of years and had recently moved to the area that I currently live. After I moved here I transfered my cub scout boy to a Pack here. The first pack meeting I went to it was all but dead, after some prompting from the CC, who was running the meeting, I questioned her as to why things were running the way they were. It turns out that the Pack had died a few years prior and was resurrected a year ago and the start of the school year. They started off ok but like usual, they got to butting heads on ho

You were ABSOLUTELY right for what you did! We try to teach these boys to say no to drugs and alchohol and this type of display would send a wrong message to the boys. In another pack where I was an ADL we were on a pack/family campout and the DL that I was assistant to was going thru tough times with his job. We were all sitting by the campfire when all of a sudden we saw him (he should have known better) and his wife crack open a couple of bottles right there. We immediately and discreetly took them to the side and asked them to take the bottles and any others from the property and ret

I have not seen anything in "Boy Scout" Literature but I have read somewhere in "Cub Scout" literature that double dipping was not allowed. This was given in the case of the requirment being similiar from say an Achievement and a Sports or Academic pin or belt loop. I am with most others here, if the boy has truely done the requirement for the MB then he should have no problem (even if he has to refresh himself) with retesting for the rank requirement. I am a ASM for NSP in our Troop and I require the boys to do what is required of them, they always feel better about themselves after they

Sometimes I wished I had some of the childhood experiences that some of you talk about in scouting. That may have been my main drive to getting my boys involved with scouts, I probably like camping more than they do at this point in time. But as I have progressed from a Boy Scout Dad thru being a Den Leader to currently serving as a Cubmaster, an Assistant Scoutmaster and Activities Chair for our district my love for scouting is so much more. I can handle the unruley boys and the sometime disgruntled parents, along with the anticks of the council, most often resulting in a headache. But

ML, May be late to get into this topic, but I am very curious to see how everything turned out. Did you continue to go to this Pack or did you find another one? I am just real curious to see if this pack has survived 2 months now!

My name is Andy Richardson, I have been in scouting now for a couple of years and just have found this valuable resource. Just to let you know a little bit about myself I am a Cubmaster, an Assistant Scoutmaster and I am the "Webelos to Scout Transition" Chair for our district. In just what few threads that I have read so far has helped me on some issues that I have had. I want to thank you for your time in the past/present/future. I am still new at this but please feel free to ask me any questions, I may not know the answer but when I do, I am happy to help in any way.