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Why can't you iron your switch backs? I iron mine on the hot cotton setting with steam. No problems. Been ironing both my sons and mine for about a year.

"I was trying to find out are they professionals that teach this or volunteers? If volunteers, why does it cost as much as it does? In my Council it looks like what's covered in the cost of Wood Badge are "food, training materials, a hat, copyright fees, supplies, insurance and recognition." They do the training on 2 weekends, and it's held in the park our Council owns. Anyway, I was just curious what costs actually cover. Maybe my question needs to go to my Council instead." I am confused. You quote the description of what the fees cover. Food for two weekends, class materi

A common place to put all the temporary patches is on a patch blanket. The scout store sells both a red fleece blanket and a red wool blanket. I beleive both are available with a yellow BSA universal symbol silk screened on one corner. My scout store also sells blue, red, and green fleece blankets with the Eagle medal, OA logo, or Woodbadge logo embroidered on one corner. Scouts in other countries have a tradition of wearing the blanket around campfires to help stay warm. The patches stimulate conversation. Some have cut a slit in the blanket and whip stiched the raw edges to keep the

I understand the desire to discuss the merits of the knot but the whole arguement is a non-starter. It is not an offical knot and should not be worn on the uniform. Not by anyone, anytime. Period. End of discussion. How can we expect scouts and scouters to wear the uniform correctly if we don't first set the example? We should first look at our own uniform and make sure that all the patches are in the correct location, correct orientation, and we are only wear patches that are approved to be worn by the BSA insignia guide. Let's make sure we are not wearing too many of some patc

Was in Cub scouts one year. Boring. Webelos was better. Earned AOL and den moved up to Boy Scouts. Earned Life and joined an Explorer Post at age 14. Earned Eagle and stayed in until went off to college. My Dad was ASM while in the troop and Asst. Post Advisor while in Explorers. He became the Post Advisor when I went to college and kept the Post alive for several years. 20 odd years later I encouraged my oldest boy to join. He joined in May as a Tiger. Summer activities were limited. He quit and took up sports by mid fall. 4 years later, younger son started as a Wolf. I became

As a Den leader, I bought the Patrol Neckerchief slide, 8-pack mentioned above for about $8-$9 (Item: 17489) I purchased the small Block Alphabet and Numeral Set(Item: 1725)for about $22 and the Bear and Wolf emblem stamps from the scout shop for about $4 each. I already had some mallets. http://www.scoutstuff.org/bsasupply/ Go to crafts, and the leather. Scroll down for items. Had a patrol meeting and the boys stamped the rank emblem in the center of the leather slide. They stamped PACK across the top arching over the rank emblem and the pack number under the bottom of the rank

You may also be confusing Cub Scouts with Boy Scouts. Cub Scouts (ages 7-10) requires parental involvment. Pack campouts often encourage family camping with not only parents but siblings. Boy Scouts (11-18) usually have troop leadership and enough parents to drive the boys to the campsite. We have 40-50 registered boys and typically 30+ scouts attend campouts. We have at least 15 registered & trained ASM. We need at least 6-8 vehicles to move the people and equipment. The adults act as a patrol and set up in area away from the scouts. There primay goal is to maintain safe

We had a pack of about 45-60 boys. The Camping & Outings committee was in charge of planning the campouts. The committee would meet a month or two before the campout and choose a location. They would also decide on activities, menu, and supplies. The tasks would be divided up amongst the committee members. Typically we would have 120 in attendance including family members. Food was personal responsibility except for Sat night the Pack supplied and cooked. The Webelos and occasionally the Bears would cook as a den. Activities usually centered around outdoor skills. We hav

The school has a TV Free week once each year. We tape a page to the front of the sets and no one gets to watch TV that week. Of course we get some grumbling the day before and day one. After that, no complaints. We play cards, board games, read or do other things as a family. Sure, we could live without TV without much difficulty. While I was single, I unplugged my only TV and put it in a closet for a little over a year. Spent a lot of time reading and listening to music. Never missed it.

My scout store carries stamps for the various Cub Scout ranks, AOL, Eagle, BSA emblem. Never saw any for the Boy Scout ranks. Just checked out the scout store web site. Go to CRAFTS, LEATHER, LEATHER STAMP TOOLS (Look for leather square with Tiger) They have a list of stamps, but none for Boy Scout ranks, POR, or Adult Ranks. The description indicates "Now with more detail". Hope so. I have a set of the Cub Scout ranks I bought to allow my den to make leather neckerchief slides. Stamps made very poor impressions. http://www.scoutstuff.org/BSASupply/ItemDetail.aspx?ctlg

Our Pack had about 50% participation in the red felt brag vest. Those that wore them, wore them with pride. Occasionally there was a discussion of having somebody handy with a sewing machine make them. The idea was to buy one or two in different sizes to make patterns. Once the pattern is made, then vests could be made for just the cost of the material and the donated time of the seamstress. My son never seem interested. I got some stiff felt at the craft store about 12"x18" and hot glued his patchs to that. My thought was eventually to move them to a patch blanket. As

Recently out troop camped at a state park. There were two other troops at adjoining campsites. Basically it was an open field with 2 or 3 trees in the middle. It was interesting to see the differences in troop behavior. One troop had 2 large metal frame work covered with 10''x20'' tarps set up. They brought 3 or 4 folding tables, chairs, and all sorts of additional equipment. Tents did not match leading me to belive the scouts provided their own. I don''t believe I ever saw any of the boys wearing any part of the uniform. I seldom saw the adults but don''t recall seeing any unifo

I am new to my troop, joined in February. They pay for all adult training. I asked specifically regarding WB. A couple of the committe members shrugged shoulders and answered, Yes the troop pays full cost. A month later I found out that we have several members of the committee/ASM that are running WB this session. At the mandatory new parent orientation that lasted 4 troop meetings, it was taught that a troop of our size (35-50) boys should have at least 3 WB trained leaders. With leaders retiring yearly, then new leaders are encouraged to attend to keep the ratio. I know we have

On the clipart section in the Adult knots section, they seem to be randomly placed. You have photos and line drawings of the same award placed apart from each other. You have photos and line drawing intermixed. I would recommend that you place a line drawing and photo of the same badge together along with a title or desription of the award. For those awards you do not have photos of, just head down to the scout store and ask to take photos of each badge.

My old pack had a homemade wooden 3 lane track. Each of the lanes ran at a different speed. It was quite the puzzle to put together. We had adults eyeball the winner with a poster board on the wall and somebody filling in the blanks on with a magic marker. Lots of complaints by sore loser adults and unhappy kids. We had several good/great years of popcorn sales and sprung for a new system. Aluminim track, software, electronic timer, all hooked to a computer that displayed the results on the wall 10 feet wide for all to see immediately as the race was run. All cars run on all four l

I will probably recieve a lot of flak for this but... Just because you love Rover, why does that mean that I must enojy your slobbering mutt sniffing me and rubbing his wet nose around my crotch. If you must own a pet, then do the world a favor and take yourself to doggy school and learn how to control your animal. Too many people seem to overlook that a pet is a priviledge not a requirement and it is incumbent upon the pet owner to learn how to manage their animal. Pet lovers seem to be blind to the fact that not everyone wants pet hair, slobber, and the constant yapping that come

Scrambled eggs in a zip bag? Write name on outside of quart sized ziptop bag with Sharpie Marker. Break 2 eggs into bag. Scramble eggs in bag by mashing bag and contents. Spinkle salt and pepper to taste. Add splash of milk if desired. Add pre-cooked bacon, pre-cooked sausage, grated cheese, diced onions, diced bell peppers, sliced mushrooms, diced ham, or other favorite omlette style fillings. Burp bag of any air and zip bag closed. Drop closed bag into pot of boiling water. Wait several minutes. Remove bag with tongs and check the eggs to see how cooked they are

Most of our new scouts cross over in Feb/March. We work with them to get most of the skills presented before summer camp. All dozen of them attended summer camp that ran a program for new scouts to complete 75%+ of the requirements for Scout through 1st Class. We held a skills check for the last two meeting nights so that all would be able to particiapte in this weekends COH and recieve their next rank. All will be receiving their Tenderfoot rank. Feb/Mar to Aug is 6-7 months. They probably have 75%-95% of the requirements for 2nd and 1st class checked off as a result of summer

What did Scouting do for me? Everything! While in scouting it was my source of accomplishment. While others may have been a member for a sports team, band, or school club, I was a Boy Scout. It taught me self reliance and pride in my accomplishments. Later while an Explorer, I trained for my later advocation. As an adult, I took the training I learned as a Boy Scout and joined the fire department as volunteer. I spent over a decade as a EMT and rescue technician. The medical training I underwent as part of an Explorer Post jumpstarted my EMT training and service. The outdoor s

I handled it this way. Collected money from the parents to pay for the AOL cermony and "awards". I had a grandfather of one of the boys use a router to carve the arrow of light into a board and put a decorative edge around the board. I stained and polyurethened the board. We had metal plates engraved with the boys name, pack number, and date and affixed them to the presentation board. Ordered bone tip, turkey feather fletching, hand made by a Native American arrows and mounted them on the presentation board. Made tangles from a leather thong. The thong had colored beads indicating their

Class A most of the time. I have 1 switchback, 1 older style long and 1 older style short pants. Two short sleeve shirts. All patches are correct and current with the exception of the troop culture of the adult patrol patch (Zulus). I wear a bolo for troop meetings and neckerchiefs for COH and more formal occaisons. I have about three dozen hand carved slides that I use to encourage my son to wear his neckerchief. I took most to summer camp thi summer and they attracted a lot of attention. I expect to see more custom neckerchief slides within our troop. I have several troop T-shirt

While my level of geekdom could certainly be challenged, I find that I am more fond of knots than most. Started out by being assigned the Pioneering Merit Badge course my first year as a Camp Staffer. I quickly learned and taught 13 knots each week to the campers. Of course, I also taught lashing and splices. That summer started my enjoyment of knots and ropes. Later I joined a technical rescue squad involved in High and Low Angle Rope Rescue. Each monthly training session started with tying knots. Always new members joining that had to be taught how to tie and and then apply

My son and I watch Surviorman with Les and enjoy him truely working to stay alive on his own. I prefer not to watch Man vs. Wild because of all the stupid things he does. In a recent episode, he jumped 20 feet into unknown water. The water was literally freezeing cold, with a brisk wind, and his claim was that he could see steam rising off the ground a mere 20 minute hike from the freezing water. His plan was to jump into freezing water, swin across the creek, jog to the steam 20 minutes away and warm up in the volcano heated mud baths before hypothermina set in. It seems in a

Someone sent me a different article regarding this fella. Apparently he earned a merit badge that has since been discontinued thereby earning one more than are currently available. Mom is a lawyer, Dad is a surgeon.

Hey! I resemble that remark. Earned my Eagle in '79. As a youth we were not allowed to use gas stoves or folding chairs. Nowadays youth only cook on a stove and most bring along the folding chair. Times they are a changin' I have taken Cub, Webelos, and Boy scout leader position specific training, safety afloat, climb on safely, IOLS, Webelos Outdoor Skills, University of Scouting and attended a number of round tables. None of them were leadership classes. While training will help leaders talk from a common playbook regarding youth protection, paperwork completion, and unifor