nettie0523

Beavah, I hear you on that. I am planning some camping with my den (WI after June 1st) and the other two W1 dens in the fall. I have 9 boys in my den and only my son and the son of my ADL have slept in a tent before. I did manage to get two of the other boys to sign on for Webelos Resident Camp this summer. I think they will enjoy it. My biggest concern about the SM is that when one of those boys that crossed over last year and then quit (that I mentioned previously), his father sent the SM a lengthy email explaining their concerns and why his son was not happy. He asked the SM to c

Thank you for all of your replies. We are an urban Pack and there are three other Packs and at least two other troops in our city alone. Beavah, thanks for the welcome. Everyone makes some good points and its helpful to hear how other Packs do things to get an outside perspective. The reason I am looking into this now is that we have already had a couple of boys crossover (last year) that were BIG into Scouting and the affiliated Troop wasn't a good fit, so they dropped out. One boy never made it through summer camp. We have boys coming up that are not all about back country camping and

I am a DL for a large Pack with an excellent CM BUT when our boys are getting ready to crossover they are channeled directly into the Troop that is affiliated with our Chartered Org. and run by our former CM. That is not the real problem but it has always been my understanding that Webelos are supposed to try out different troops to see what is a good fit. This year was the first year since I've been with the Pack that we had a WII go to a different troop. His mother was concerned that he would be singled out and treated differently by his Den leader so she didn't tell anyone until the nigh