SMT376Richmond KY

Boys saying "I can't..." My son in particular. Doesn't try just immediately says 'I can't". I'll also have to agree with Christy?(sorry if I got the name incorrect)man bashing. If you subscribe to the media's idea that all men are pedophiles and perverts. Why else would a man want to spend his free time in the woods with boys age 11-18 unless he was some type of pervert. Number one reason why the YPT guidelines are what they are today. I remember plenty of SMC with that were done privately in the 70's. Spending time 1:1 with the SM bringing up the rear during a hike just he and I dis

Here's one for the group (I'm especially interestd in the Scouts views). Our Toop has been asked to participate in a Girl Scout Spring encampment where Brownies and Juniors will be taught camping skills. We have been specifically asked if we would cook lunch for the camp the Saturday of the event. This would free up the GS Troop to concentrate 100% on providing the training to the newer Girl Scouts. I told she who must be obayed the GS Troop leader that I would present this to the PLC that it was up to them the boys to decide. Question, since most of these boys will be working on 1st

I like the Scouts in here. As a Scoutmaster I like to here their responses to posts. It lets me know how something will play in front of our Scouts.

Thanks for the advice. Went shopping last night and the troop now(with the help of a good outfitter sales guy)is the proud owners of 4 Coleman Sundomes. Strange the guy wanted to steer us away from the high end North Face and Sierra tents I was dumbfounded. He reccommedned for our new scouts all 11-12, either the Coleman Sundome or the Eureka Apex with emphasis on the Colemans due to the standard alumnanim poles on the Eurekas and extra cost associated with getting the fiberglass poles. I looked at the floor demos of both and for the $30.00 seperation in price. Could find little diff

I need some more of that sage advice that I keep commin back to the well for. What advice can you folks give on what to look for in troops tents? Praticular brands styles etc. We plan truck in and pack in trips so we need tents that are capable of both.

Wow! Thanks for the information Bob. I'll contact the council office to see what we need to do. Both myself and the Packs current Webelos leader have done everything required to earn Cubscout knots but they were never awarded. I doubt the paper work was ever turned in. I only received my cubmaster knot because the CC wanted to give me a good send off when we instilled a new cubmaster when I took the Troop as SM. I'm still a Committee member of the Pack so I make a point of this to the committee each year to make sure the leaders are recognized for thier efforts.

Question for the sages of the forum. If a scouter had completed the requriements for a particular Square Knot but through a pack or troop mistake was never awarded it can they apply for it now?

Speaking of themes trying to get our district to renew fall camporees, it's been years since there was one. At RT last night the RT chair suggested an environmental theme but there didn't seem to be many that were interested. Has anyone done or herd of a throw back theme? Many things in Scouting have changed over the years. Like the NFL did with the retro jerseys it would be neat to show boys how Scouting has changed over the years. I have several old merit badge books from the 60's and 70's we could get info out of. Use an older version of the Scout manual for the weekend etc. Of co

SCTmom Yes we did have siblings invited. This didn't help either. We generally had a good turn out at the district fall cub campout then nothing the other times we were outdoors.

I'll somewhat repeat form my other post. I am wondering if they will change the Scout and Tenderfoot requirements too. I know this year my son who just transitioned this year keeps saying "gee I already did this is Webelos." some of the "New" scouts are gettin a little peeved that he is able to show them things and that he is so confident in his Scout skills. Not that he knows everything as a Tenderfoot but compared to the other 7 boys he is ahead in some skills. Now in my previous scouting life as Cubmaster of the pack the past 3 years. I couldn't get boys to campouts due to that li

Sounds alot like the Tenderfoot requirements. Perhaps we should give AOL's that bridge over the Tenderfoot by default. This was a big complaint of my son. "Gee I did all this stuff for Webelos why can't it count for this." Does this mean the second years who are just awaiting tenure will have to complete these new requirements since they finished most in their books last year. We have 3 in the Pack that will have tenure in November two of which have said they will come to our Troop in Feb at Blue and Gold.

Thanks for the votes of confidence. Thought I was doing the right thing. Just to offer some clarification. The skipping was taking place in an ajoining pool down stream from the wadders the injured scout walked from one pool to the next and both scouts faild to see him. I didn't see him walking as we treating a minor foot scrape of another scout that dispite being instructed not to go barefoot in the creek decided to do so as not to get his Nike's wet. We had planned for the event even informed EMS which the fire Dept is our CO where we would be they had a 2-3 min ETA once we call

Hi all Need your input. We had our first hike in backpack campout of our new troop this weekend. Plan was the farm was about 5 miles from our meeting hall. Left cars at hall Firday evening and was driven by parents to short cut to site where we planned to backpack in. All went well going in only 1.2 mi had map and compass to follow up instruction of new Tenderfoots on thier Secondclass skills. All were very interested in using the map and compass to discover where we were and where we were going. Saturday wadded in creek and hiked length all had fun. One ASM had to leave camp

Our Middle School went to one of those "standardized dress codes". You know the PC name for school uniforms in a public school. Well I asked if the Scouts will be permitted to wear the complete uniform on meeting days and was told this would be an example of unacceptable clothing. The Dress code requires "collared shirts with logos no larger than a quarter and tucked it, belts, pants in a solid dark color without cargo pockets." The principal said "that the patches on the the Scout shirts qualified as logos = to Tommy etc. That the pockets on the Scout pants were cargo pockets in which st

Know what you mean I received my beads this past Saturday during OLT for the council. Really a fun ceremony my 15 yo daughter even liked it and she's into GS and things BS are "wierd". Congrats fellow badger. "I'm growin old and feeble and I can beaaaaaaaaaaaar no more." BOWB

Quess I'll tell the CO rep this so he can check into it. I know they are a non profit orgnization. But when I was CM they never asked for any information on the Packs finances but then he had set up the Packs account initially so he may have been receiving reports from the bank too.

Bob "Has the group you have formed done the required governmental filing to be a legitimate non-profit organization. If not..every dollar brought in by the crew is income to your organization and is taxable by the U.S. government. (At last report failure to pay income tax is not looked on kindly.)" Our Troop is not a recognized non profit organization by the gov. However, to open a troop checking account we had to obtain a Tax ID number as several banks would not let us open an account without one. Our Pack already had an account while I was CM so we didn't have this problem. However

My young scouts learned this first hand at our recent spring camporee. Being only 3 weeks old as a troop we went to camporee with the expectation that these young men (all 11) would not fair well in the competitions. Therefore, the committee and leaders opted to use the opportunity for some tenderfoot instruction. While having patrol knot relays a group of older scouts 14-16 yera old came by and were chastizing our younger boys that they were too young to be scouts. Having just completed instructions on the taut-line I wasked our boys if they would want to challenge these older boys to a r

Well, our Troop is brand new and are "Cash Poor" we would be more than happy to assist your wife in her delema. Actually we are having our first fund raiser this weekend. A car wash so if your near Union City Kentucky and need a car wash come by the fire department and help the Troop out.

Good responses When I was Cubmaster I always wanted the boys to keep meeting over the summer as like someone posted no school or other things to get in the way. However, in our area baseball in king even more important than school and one of the Cubs mom was a teacher at the local school get that. Any how I was happy when I brought up activity ideas for June and July and the boys said "Aren't we going to keep having meetings?" I jumped at this opportunity to inform them that it was their troop that if they wanted to continue year round that certainly was a decision they could make. The

How many Troops take the summer off for meetings? Our boys have decided they want to continue tomeet during the summer.

Ditto DS. I will definatly send a note home to the parents as I have seen "A Time to Tell" and agree parents need to know before hand. Spoke with the DE last night and he and I agree that this could have been horseplay but he agrees the Troop should have a discussion and perhaps add Troop rules on consequences to behavior that the boys vote on given that this is a boy led Troop. I'm not going to dig vey deep in investigation just going to get both sides of the story and any witnesses. The ASM's and I will have a discussion as to behavior at next weeks meeting. We are also going to keep a

Nice responses so far. I plan on getting the other boys side of the story and discussed the matter with the ASM's we have 4. We came agreeded that there was way too much horseplay at this camp out and that we will rein in the stallions a bit. Don't want to thier spirit but we can't have them beating each other up. I'm guessing that the whack was part of something that got out of hand while the boys were waiting in line for the Bathroom. I will definately have the SM conference with the two involved and investigate the other incident as well. Going to get the video from council as well on

Wow can't believe I'm the only one thus far. I'm a male registered nurse. Previously of the ER type for 5 years, but having developed osteoarthitis from a Navy injury in 1981 and reinjuring it in the ER in 1999 my Ortho doc told me I had to quit bedside nursing so I found a desk job as a nursing administrator for a federally funded research center. Also provides me more time for Scouting as I have weekends and holidays off.

I need some help. Our new Troop or young boys nine 11 year olds had it's first campout this past weekend at the Councils Sprping Camporee. At our regular meeting this Monday night one mom apporached me afterwards complaining that her son told her Sunday, that another boy in the Troop (his Patrol leader it turns out)struck him with a cane and threw sugar in his eyes. When her son asked the PL why he did this the response was "cause I wanted to." This did shed some light on the pieces of cane pole I found in our CO's building where the boys had gone on a BR break after the 1 hour ride b