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With five or six dens of boys in a pack, sevearal dens could be asigned to each meal as preps, cooks, and cleaners. Then those boys would set the menu for their meal.

5000 hours? What are we expecting? The Great Wall?

We're probably going to skip reading the story in meetings and focus on learning about plants, the water cycle, "reading bouquets" from Victorian times, etc. We only meet twice a month, so hopefully we'll see some real differences in our garden. At the end, we are going to have an end of year tea party and make hats.

It looks more like a council specific form.

I am opening this thread as a place to share how your GS troop is working with the new Journeys material. As a Daisy troop, we are working on our Daisy Petals. (One for each part of the Girl Scout law for you Boy Scouts.) We anticipate beginning our Daisy Garden in the next month. What's our service project going to be? Have no clue.

Is dual registration with the Crew or Troop being primary no longer an option?

Le me guess that these kids have been together since Tigers, and their parents bonded more than they did. If you want to feel you did your due diligence then you might try to have a district of council level Eagle coordinator come give a presentaion to Scouts and parents on what the Eagle project entails and means, because quite frankly, I'm not sure this group understands.

What about the concept of "fighting words" wherein assault was mitigated by the inflammatory speech?

Skip Dinner!!! Dessert Extravaganza only. (What could 50 boys want more?)

Well, it's about time. Here's to your son and his project.

Mom, Where do your troop's CC and COR stand on all of this? Are they aware that National policies aren't being followed, or are they of the "Well, we have a certain standard around here" type? You certainly do have the patience of a saint.

Well, nothing says perseverance like a Scout in full uniform showing up at the Council office with a binder of rejected paperwork and e-mail for his appointment with the Council AC or the SE. Take the day off from school if you have to. And while I would never, ever suggest jumping a functional chain of command, yours ain't. (1 year at Benning, 3 at Stewart)

How many of these whack jobs are out there??? Get your IH and CO/COR behind you and get this woman out of the Pack. Sadly, you will probably lose more than one cub over this, and her boy is getting punished for having a nut-case mom, but you have to act in the best interest of the others.

If the Big 3 were really interested in becoming 21st century industrial powerhouses, they would be in bankruptcy court where they can completely scrap the old union contracts and renegotiate everything. I am not interested in paying for anyone else's willful ignorance and incompetence. If we bail out these bozos this time, they will just come back looking for more in ten years, like a junkie relative or friend. It is time to... JUST SAY NO.

The reason that mothers traditionally took care of children is because after nine months of pregnancy plus labor, delivery, nursing, and weaning, we're much less likely to kill them. I am frequently accused of not understanding what "Fair" means. I try to see it from his POV, but I'm the mom now and I have way more factors to take into account than just one child's preferences.

This situation with your son's Eagle Project is just one more toxic event in a toxic troop. A unit commissioner needs to review the troop's functioning with the IH and the COR and the CC to get them on the same page as the rest of BSA. Hopefully, this is not representative of your district, or if it is, you are close enough to another district to participate in one of its troops. Best of luck to your son and congratulate yourself on having a boy who will take the bull by the horns and not put up with utter BS. BTW: A good op order can be written entirely on an unfolded MRE box,

Let's all just be happy that Americans seem to love our flag to death. When we lived in Germany, no one, and I mean no one, had a German flag flying from their house. You'd see the three bars on sporting paraphernalia for national teams, but that was it. The flag belonged to the state, not the people. The two guys originally in question probably had the military flag patches hanging around and decided to be thrifty.

Have you thought about contacting your district's Cub Day Camp committee? They could probably help you think this out. This would be a great thing to go to, I think, as long as people weren't relying on it to get reqs finished. If you are going to have parents come and use Scouts as instructors, be prepared for lots of "well-intentioned" suggestions about how the boys aren't prepared to teach cubs, etc. Have fun!!

The other services have to constantly change because they know the Marines and the Royal Navy won the uniform contest decades ago.

While you should bring up your concerns to your CM and maybe the CC, are you sure you don't also have a "button-pusher?" My 7 year old would do this, and does. (sigh)

Firekat, It's really sad what happened to your old pack and a terrible example of very un-Girl Scout like behaviour. When I see this kind of bitterness and lack of cooperation or common courtesy, I do blame successive waves of National and Council leadership which have failed to recruit good leaders and promote as well as enforce some standards of conduct. If BSA units behaved this way, they would be excoriated. Maybe there are some "nice" GS units in your area you could partner with. PS: I'm a "switch hitter" in Scouting.

We all meet people who annoy us everyday. Ignore them. Put the door hangar in the trash. Politely tell the missionaries you aren't interested, to have a nice day, and close the door. Tell the polster, campaigner, or whoever it is you don't have time or inclination and please don't call back. There are better things to get wrapped around the axle about.

Twomorrows, without parents there are no troops. The problem lies with a set of adult Scouts who have what are now discrimanatory, pre-conceived notions of the relationships between men and women and fathers and daughters. Unfortunately, in the name of "protecting the girls," policies and procedures have been adopted, to a greater or lesser extent in GS Councils, with the effect of making it harder for fathers to participate in their daughters' scouting experience. If BSA treated moms like some GSUSA councils treat dads, the lawsuit would be fast, furious, and settled.

So why didn't Dad get off his duff and help make a better Girl Scouting program for his daughter and other girls rather than tilt at windmills?

My son's troop went to Rainey Mt last summer and they had a great time. This year they are headed to Woodruf. Get your reservations in now.