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I too, have been thinking about my beading ceremony. I wrote my ticket so that I should have it done by May, but I don't know where or when I will get beaded. I thought about my May pack meeting, but I don't think that anyone in the pack would even really care, except for the special guests that I invite, and it would make the Gilwell song very silent in some verses. I though about Roundtable, but it tends to thin out as the weather gets warmer. Our Disrict likes to do it at our annual dinner in April, but that's not possible for me, since the last item on my ticket is scheduled

I don't see why the online recharter wouldn't let you have an older boy. We have one boy's birth year mistakely listed as 1967. Yes, accoridng to it he turned 39 last Novemeber. He's a Webelos I, so it has probably been wrong since he was a Tiger. Last year we tried to fix the errors, but we still have boys listed as CS when they are Webelos and vice versa. The grades are even more mixed up. One of our boys is listed as being in the 6th grade. We're still trying to get our errors fixed. I am shocked about how hard it is to get things changed on our roster. From my experienc

With my Tigers, I didn't "tell" them that they could do them more than once until two or three months until end of the school year. Then I told them that they could do them again if they wanted, since there were 100 spots to fill in the back of the book. No one even asked about doing them a 3rd time.

That reminds me of a uniform incident I had. Four of the boys in my den, including my son, all are on the same wrestling team. One day at practice, I was wearing my uniform becasue I had a meeting afterwards. As I stood there, I was talking about the meeting afterwards, and I made the comment, "That's why I'm wearing my uniform." One parent looked at me and said, "I didn't even notice you were wearing a uniform. We're too used to seeing you in it."

"We moved three years ago and he's not getting Boy's Life." Seems to me that if a boy moves his parents should tell the pack. Maybe it's just easier to wiat three years.....

I've had EXPERIENCED parent leaders say these things: "What's roundtable?" "I'm supposed to take training?" We just went through our Quality Unit Centennial Committment form. 33% of our direct contact leaders are trained.

Last year I was TDL. Our Cubmaster did nothing but spend money and then demand that he be reimbursed without seeking permission of the committee beforehand. Then he moved to working afternoons, and he couldn't comprehend that he could not go to pack or committee meetings because he would be working. We had to force him down to ACM. He has not shown up _ever_ since he became ACM. So we're rechartering without him. He also failed to take the training for 3 years, and becuase of that, he believed he ran the pack, not the committee. However, I was asked to be CM. I took it becuase we have no

Session 2 ended yesterday...and I am sad it ended, but glad to be back home with flushing toilets. I had the time of my life. My renegade bear patrol performed the closing flag ceremony, and we did it with the seriousness and uttmost respect. Our Navy veteran bear helped us pull it all together. We surprised a lot of people. As for the rest of the course, we were named renegades for a reason, which I will not divulge here for people that haven't been to Wood Bagde. But it was an amazing experience learning how to be a leader and more importantly how NOT to be a leader. Off

I just returned from Weekend 1 of Wood Badge. I never was a girl scout, and I never was a camper. I have been in cub scouts for 11 months now. I served last year as a Tiger Den Leader. My DE saw what I was doing and asked me to be the on the membership committee for the District. I am going to be cubmaster in my pack as soon as the paperwork goes through. I guess I'm on the fast track. But my point is that Woodbadge did review a bunch of corporate hoopla, but the difference was that for three days I had to put it into practice, and not just for a few activities strung together loosel

I went to roundtable the other night and this is what we were told. All ranks will have "new" books. Wolf-Bear-Webelos Only change it that it will be spiral-bound and cost TWICE as much. My scout shop has them already. There are NO changes in content. Tiger It will be available NEXT month for the Scout Shops to order. It will be spiral-bound and cost twice as much. They are reprinting it to include changes to the program. Since my roundtable staff haven't seen the book, they don't know how much has been changed. If anyone gets a copy of the 2006 printing of the the

I talked with the DE. He did some asking around. If we really want to, we can give our $ to COR to help them out. But I don't see how ~$2k could help, but then we'd be broke. If they go into bankruptcy, we can keep our property (flags, PC derby track) and our bank account. Which is good. He also said we'd get to keep our unit number. But I'm not so sure, and it doesn't really matter that much to me. One thing that I have learned from going through a bankruptcy with a employer is that advice can be quite wrong. So I'm not counting my chickens before they're hatched. If

I know. The current cubmaster wanted me to take over, but I don't know what he's planning on doing, since he's still debating it. I told him I'd do it. I don't know how the others would feel about me wanting them to follow the rules. I do not like it when they do not follow the guide to safe scouting. I make sure that I recognize the boys at each den meeting, and I hold some advancement over to pack meeting, if possible. I end up working twice as hard as I should but it's worth it to see the boys beaming with pride. Some of my Tiger's parents have asked me to stay with the boys next

I have my Tigers doing skits. They have 1-2 line parts. I find my skits on-line, and I usually modify them a bit, or combine parts of two skits. I give them their lines on an index card to take home to practice. We also practice it in the den meeting. Then when they have to perform it, I have a backup set of cards. I don't force them to memorize their lines. I have a few struggling readers, and I don't think mom and dad are very interested in helping them. Next year, it will become more difficult with lines that have to be memorized. I will also involve them more in the planning

My pack doesn't have any policy regaring beltloops (or recordkeeping), but we do things as each den leader pleases, since we lack an advancement chair. I agree it is a bit silly to award a second belt loop, but I do think that the second time around should be more challenging. What I will do when we get to Webelos (den leaders move up with their son) is that I will give them the little card for it again, and they can purchase the loop themselves if they want a second. Lisabob- I have never seen the "rocker" patches. Are they an official BSA item? Do you have a link?

I know I should go to the Committee Chair, but to tell you the truth, she knows, and doesn't think it's a big concern. Like I said my pack is very casual, and I have to take on extra responsibility to ensure a good program for my Tigers. We have boys whose uniform shirt only has the American flag on it, and nothing else. One of them is the Cubmaster's son. It makes me cringe when I see him. We are finally, this month, having a "real" pack meeting. Other meeting centered around Holidays, Parades, B&G, and pinewood. So I'm trying to stay right on the line of doing things by th

Thanks for the info. I have contacted our DE. He is good at either getting things done or pointing me in the right direction. We don't meet at the American Legion. We meet at an elementary school. All of our packs belongings (pine car track and flags) are at the cubmaster's house. We don't have any "place" to keep our stuff. I don't know if the CO knows what exactly what we have, and I'm not so sure our Cubmaster does either. The three things that I'm worried about is the money, the flags and the track. I did not have a change to talk to someone over the weekend at trainin

We are chartered by the American Legion, and the VFW has been facing similar financial problems. But that is a good point about our pack finances being used to pay off the COR debts. I went through an unsuccessful bankruptcy with my former employer. I'm going to some training this weekend, and I'll see what I can find out there. The people at the training would be able to help me some more before I go to the chairman. I'm not sure if she'll do anything about it though. Really long story, but I'll just leave it at out pack being very casual, well, except for me that is. We're finally

I found out at out last committee meeting, that our chartered organization got into to tax trouble, is broke, and may close. They have not told us this themselves, but our Wolf leader works for the city, and he found it out. I'm not really sure what is going to happen, but has anyone experienced this before? Would it be our repsonsibility as the pack to find a new one? I'd just like to know a head of time how similar situations have been handles in the past, as I do not want this to affect the boys, and I would like the change to be as seamless as possible from their perspective

When I was trained, I was told that if it was in the book, then they can do it. It is in the book. Each of the 8 requirements are are there completely, and "How to protect you children from child abuse" section is there, encompassing multiple pages. In addition, Aleka has a space to sign off and the Den Leader signs off on it. Then the boy can color the paw print in. Why would I sign off for practice? I don't think that BSA would put these there just to take about an extra 15 pages or so. The introduction to the Bobcat section doesn't say that they have to wait until they are in

My son, currently a Tiger has used the 2005 Tiger book since last fall. The cover does have the boys in blue uniforms. I have been asking around about these things, and my DE is currently handling it. I reminded him that it is now Bobcat before Tiger, but he didn't know about the Tiger Cub motto discontinuation. (Especially since they have a bunch of event patches for the incoming Tigers that say "Search, Discover, Share".) I asked the guy in the Scout Shop at my council if BSA was going to reprint the books, and he said, "Probably not." What makes me wonder is if the Meeting Pr