speeglevillemom

I had a situation where one of my new scouts had been attacked this summer and had to go to court and the whole lot. At a pack meeting we presented him with the crime stopper "award" for his bravery in telling an adult about what had happened and being brave. All the boys love looking at it and giving him a big high five for doing the right thing. Havent run into anyone whining about not being able to earn it themselves. I think at this age most boys understand when someone else gets something special because of a special circumstance. Atleast all of my boys have.

Thank you for all of the advice. I better understand my "official" role a bit better. For what it is worth, I would have expected more information to come down from Council by now, but alas I have had to beg and plead just for the theme. For whatever reason our council is mismanaged and has caused our district to become the ugly stepchild noone wants at the adults table. I am okay with the thought that I will need to "remind" them on a daily basis that we are putting on a day camp, just like we have every year in June and that I will be here to run it. My intentions are to be the pd this

My plan is to get dressed in costume and hit every pack meeting in Jan and Feb. I want the kids to be so excited that they beg their leaders and parents to get them signed up. Plus I figure it will get the adults interested in checking out the changes to camp. My thought is the more excited I seem the more buzz and excitement it will generate. Plus it would be fun to dress like a princess for a few months. As for late registration... to me there is no acceptable reason to turn away kids months in advance considering they only gave them two weeks to get it in in the first place. Last

Thanks for all of the advice. After talking to some people who have been up at the district office for awhile I better understand what has gone wrong with our camp. Last year it seems the program director refused late registration so a bunch of scouts didn't get to go. My jaw hit the floor. How could anyone tell a little boy no he couldn't go to camp? The CD is awsome and really into camp she just got over shadowed last year by the pd which I thought was interesting. I think we will work well together and make this program outstanding. I am so excited and ready to hit the ground running

Fundraiser... thought was to do one to help the kids raise the hundred dollar registration fee. Since everyone is concerned about the economy I thought doing a bowl a thon and a bike a thon would be scout friendly activities and would also help get more kids to camp who would otherwise not beable to go. I have heard of other districts doing fundraisers to help with registration. My thought was that since our Pack used the popcorn funds to pay for the boys uniforms, they worked their tails off to do it and are so proud to show off their entire uniform, the same would be true for camp. We h

Rundown.... the facilities are fine the program isn't. Everything is planned last minute so it is just thrown together and everyone runs around like chickens with their heads cut off. (I'm not trying to be mean that is just what it was like last year) Noone knew what was going on. The staff was no were prepared. Attendance has been way down. After camp lastyear the comment was that it was the best camp so far. My jaw hit the floor. (it was our first year) How could it be the best yet, they still were unprepared. I imediately volunteered for this year. The DE approched me in Nov and asked

So if I understand the way this will work... I am under the Camp Director so she is the one I should run my ideas through. My concern is she has been Camp Director for many years and the camp is very run down and unatteneded. I am not sure if it is because she is a no type personality or if they havent had a program director who looked into what we can make happen. I am all rearing to go, but feel like they don't mind things being so last minute throw together. Thanks for the advice guess I will just have to wait and see what she is like once I meet her.

For those who know I would like to see what the job description of Program Director for Day Camp is. I have been asked to take on this position, but have no idea what all it entails. Thanks for any info you have.

I am near KILLEEN Texas which houses Ft. Hood Army Base. I am sure our scouts in that area would love a pen pal. If you still need a K letter let me know and I can put the word out for you. Just hollar. kathryn

I have a problem with one of the parents in our Tiger den I would like to run by ya'll. In my infanite wisdom I was asked and accepted the duties of starting a new pack out where I live, just outside the city. One was badly needed and we have a fantastic response from parents out here. We had eleven boys sign up within the first week. Then there is the one...the constant complainer. He spends a lot of his time at the tiger den meeting complaining about everything from why they have to wear uniforms (which most of the boys used their hard earned popcorn money to buy and wear with emense pr

I had a hair brain idea that I could use some guidence on. Since we are a new pack that didn't get started until October I thought about taking all eleven of our boys and having a twenty four hour scout-a-thon type event. Since their winter break from school is comming up soon we could plan to start the friday they let out early, aound one, and have a lock in at the church where we are chartered and spend twenty four hours doing nothing but cub scout achievements and belt loops and scouting type things. Since we live in Texas I know it will be cold but not snowing so the weather should be p