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The only hole I see right now is that COR isn't supposed to be co-registered as Asst cubmaster. COR can be coregistered as CC or as committee memeber, but basically they aren't supposed to have a hand in the committee side and the program side. So probably suggest he works on recruiting a 2nd ASM or even 3rd. Best year in my pack we had a committee member and ACM from each den. The ACM's took jobs like being in charge of songs, skits/run/ons/audience participations, games, and advancement ceremonies. of course the advancement ceremony guy worked closest with the Cubmaster and took ove

Our roundtable has a boy leader break out session, it rotates thru some of the positions, inviting say all SPLs and ASPLs to attend one month, all QM the next month. It goes thru cycles of good or bad attendance probably based maybe on when each troop's elections are held in the district.

thanks for the advice for my oldest, again I'm not worried about him. Elections are coming up, not sure if he'll step up again for a big part, or if he's tired of beating his head against the wall about some of the issues the troop has. OA is a huge part of his scouting, he's on the ceremonies team and does hundreds of hours of ceremonies a year, just got recognized as Vigil! Heck he already convinced his newly ordealed younger brother to join the ceremonies team in a pinch, so 2 weeks after doing his ordeal, he filled in as a part for the ordeal ceremony as well. His OA advisor

In some ways boy scouts has been too easy for my boys, but that's cause they come in with a hefty set of scout skills from years of camping, hunting, hiking, fishing, outdoors stuff--but also cooking, cleaning, family service, scholarship and community service and more as that's how our family does things. I don't have any worry that my 16+ year old will decide to jump thru the hoops to finish his Eagle, but the award does not exemplify what he thinks it should--that the award is tarnished by how it's given out. Part if it is our unit but at this point, that won't change, although

so use the money to set up a super duper small pack campership to help boys go to camp who might not be able to come up with all the $. my pack has one and everyone that needs it can ask for $10. it's not much this year, of course the amount does change based on fundraiser amounts we get each year. or does the $ help pay for the awards earned at camp (belt loops or patches or wahtever) then there you go, how to tie it into camp funds. of course, if you are standing in front of the grocery store asking for $ to help boys go to camp and you don't use any of the $ for summer camp, bu

Been following along, the changes to the Guide to Advancement clarifying things that were confusing before have been overall pretty good. But the work as a whole gives the impression of one and done being the standard. I think the do, review, test parts should all have some kind of separation--that they all probably shouldn't be done and signed on the same day. And if it says tie a knot, it doesn't mean tie the knot today, and then tomorrow go tell your SM or whoever in your troop signs books "hey I tied that knot yesterday" and then they sign it. I think there should definitely be

Well since the treasurer said the donations were going to cover a bounced check, you might want to smooth over that little ruffle. something like while you try to collect on the bounced check, the donation amount would be able to cover other expenses of the pack so the boys never notice that kind of blip. and that yes, the money will be spend on helping all the boys go to camp. and then show what the pack is spending on the boys going to camp if need by, if anything has been approved of course. for instance, In my pack we help pay part of the leader's fees for webelos camps depen

since ALL the money brought into the pack actually belongs to the pack to be used for all the boys, and since donations especially are usually given with the idea that they are helping boys in a cub scout pack go to camp, all the donation money should go to the cub scout pack directly. now if you want to give part of it or all of it to a scout account, I understand wanting to do that, but did the people donating, really think they were donating to an individual, or to the group as a whole? if you want to give all or part, or any of those kinds of changes to prior pack policy, you

what I understand is that the Continuous Chest Compressions has shown higher success rates than the regular CPR. In cases of drowning and with children they still recommend the traditional CPR to get more oxygen into their systems. Interestingly enough My neighbor/friend who is a Cardiac care Nurse Practitioner taught my oldest's den his Readyman in 2006 or 7 and taught them that if in doubt do the CCC, but this is how to do the CPR as well. She had just been to a big conference on the benefits and comparision of CPR and CCC and came away with the info that the Continuous Chest Compre

We've been chartered for I believe 84 years in January. but not the same CO the whole time.

our dollar tree has a bunch of sizes of mesh bags. but can't say if they are high or low quality. for the price it's probably hard to beat.

yes, definitely the pins go with the rank they are working on. it would make no sense for a new wolf who joins June 1st, who is working on his wolf badge now to go to summertime activities and earn the tiger pin, since he was never a tiger. so june 1 everyone goes up to the next rank and are considered that level and work on the requirements in that level book, which includes the summertime pack award at that rank level. so new tigers joining after june 1, go to the 3 pack activities and earn the tiger summertime pin. boys who become wolves after june 1, get the wolf pin boy

We seem to end up with some mesh bags from apples, onions and oranges at the grocery store, so check there for a premade bag. you may have to make the top drawstring part yourself(weave a string in and out of the mesh and you are all set). we also got some mesh bags with like toys or rain jackets in them and those have also been repurposed. as for sewing your own bag, if you end up with scout zip off legs in your troop that don't have a mate, they can be sewed to make bags about the size you want. or the legs of jeans work out to about those dimensions.

I would probably buy a new outdoor activity award patch, and move the pins over to the webelos shirt (if he wears the pins, if he tends to just lose the pins, leave them on the blue shirt for safekeeping).

We try to wait to give out any ranks earned in prior months in February. Mostly cause November has really low attendance right before thanksgiving, December is a parade with short christmas party, January is Derby which takes a lot of our time, so there isn't a lot of time in the mtgs to do a good ceremonial rank advancement. we talk to den leader and parents if they are ok with that, and if not we work it in somewhere. we do give out belt loops and other awards but they tend to have no ceremony attached, call on stage and give em a cheer kind of thing. Then we have 1-2 ranks tend to be

Ask him to do CM for 6 months(or til December, or pick a key date in your unit) and to recruit and train his replacement and new assistant CM. Explain that right now, you need to get the committee side under control and separate out all the jobs and find people to do them. Give him the short cubmaster list-- plan and run pack meetings, be the front man for all awards and pack activities, check up on den leaders and their programs, sign youth applications, things like that--make it the short list of things a cubmaster really needs to do to make the pack go. anything adminstratively

Honestly if you are wearing the COR hat, and overseeing so much of the committee kind of things, it makes sense for YOU to take the CC job. and recruit someone to do the cubmaster job. Also if you were actually registered as COR, you couldn't also be registered as cubmaster on the program side, but you could be coregistered as cc. you can write it up however you wish, but overall, cc and cubmaster need to be a team that works well to lead things, see eye to eye on policies within the pack and both have a good overview of the running of the pack. Cubmaster really needs to focus on the

I'm experimenting with something that school teachers have begun using in the jr high/ high school grades. Sending bulk text messages, announcement style only. you go to www.remind101.com sign up for an account for your pack then you set up a class that you'd call perhaps Pack 123. they assign you a phone number. you set a code, like "@Pack123" everyone in your pack, you give them the flyer to sign up. but all they do is text "@Pack123" to the phone number assigned by remind 101. they'll get a reply and request for name, ask them to type in scout first name (rank)

In scouting I find a lot of things are not done exactly how BSA says they should be done. And most of the time it is done due to well that's just the only way to get it done. a den chief in our pack is always an older brother who comes to meetings with his younger brother and ends up helping out. If he's a good fit with a particular den (we encourage it to not be his brother's den, but sometimes that's how it happens), then we ask the SM to make the position official so he can be den chief. Like a scout in any position, they are still considered active as a den chief if they are ju

I wouldn't add anything to the requirements, if he's met them, he's met them. sure someone would try to "flunk" him on scout spirit, but if he's wearing his uniform and being helpful and friendly I wouldn't hold him back on that alone. I would perhaps talk again about what things he likes to do, challenge him to add more "older boy" things to the troop/patrol calendars. I would certainly suggest a crew if there is one close by that does more challenging things. I might try to buddy him up occassionally with a scout who is similar to him that I think he might get along with who might make t

If the CC can recruit a new SM/CM and take the application to the COR for approval. They can't fire the SM/CM without the COR's approval, but by having a new application filled out and ready to go, well it effectively fires the SM/CM from their position. The SM/CM even though they are called the unit leader, doesn't seem to get as much say in who is CC, as the CC has a bit more control over who gets to be CM/SM since they have to APPROVE the CM/SM application. I've never seen a COR replace anyone without the CC wanting it to happen. I have seen SM's and CM's be replaced with a single

Well the saying is, those who do the hiring can do the firing. The CC and the COR approve everyone else's applications. Usually the CC is finding the person to fill a position and the COR is rubber stamping it, cause most COR's are mostly absent from their position except the signature. In some units, with stronger COR's they MAY be the ones finding people to fill positions, but most will delegate it to the CC, and the CC can further delegate it to a committee of parents or leaders to choose new leaders--like CM or SM. so technically the SM/CM is the unit leader of program side, CC is

Those % seem mighty high compared to ours. I send home about 2000 flyers each fall, that goes to all the boys in 1st -5th grade in about 10 or 11 schools. I say about cause the numbers do vary we have a couple schools who sometimes won't let us send hom flyers. I get on average 3 scouts for each of the 10 schools, one year I got 4 from each. so to estimate, that's about 1.5% to 2% this is just cub scouts though. now I guess I have no way of knowing how many are in the LDS scouting in the area, but most of the wards average 5-10 scouts in their cub scout packs, so t

We've often have had scouts join a boy scout troop and start working on rank and having fun, and then go back for the blue and gold official ceremony, or especially when some packs seem to have their crossover ceremonies late in the year--April or May. Boys are DONE with Webelos stuff and just want to start being boy scouts but the pack isn't accomodating. of course some never go back for the ceremony once starting on boy scout stuff, but many go back, get their applause and ceremony pictures and then continue on their scouting way.

We have calendar planning and keep in mind things boys need for each rank and assign a den leader to plan the things we decide to do that works best for their den. Since the den leaders are looking at their year, we often find big overlapping things that work for a lot of ranks--like fire station visit (tigers go see it, webelos the firemen go over first aid for readyman, fire station next to a police station, bears get their fingerprints done), state capitol building (webelos work on citizen, others get the visit an important place in their community etc). But overall our pack activitie