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    BSA Smoking Policy?

    in Open Discussion - Program

    Posted

    Smoking in front of the boys is certainly unacceptable!

    Anything that negatively affects the boys should be regulated and banned! Fat, overweight, out of shape adults should not be allowed around the boys under any circumstance. The Scouts may get the idea that it is acceptable to be fat, overweight, and out of shape.

    Ok we have gotten rid of the smokers and the fat people what is next on the agenda!!!

    Hoping someone has an extra emblem!

    in Going to the next Jamboree?

    Posted

    OK Thanks! Let me be a little clearer!

    They may have mailed us one, BUT my Scout can not find his. Participants could order additional emblems at the Jamorbee section of ScoutStuff. ScoutStuff is closed for Jamboree items now. I would like to acquire two to put on his uniforms to go to Jamboree. I guess the question here is: Did anyone order extra Jamboree Emblems from ScoutStuff (prior to closing) that could sell us one or two?

    Thanks again for all your input.

     

    Spending Money

    in Going to the next Jamboree?

    Posted

    I visited with my scout about spending monday, the braclet, and the debit card options. He did not want anything to do with the braclet. Said he would use it too often and would not know how much money he was spending. He thought that $50 on a debit card and $50 in cash would be sufficient. I think I may stash a $20 in his bag somewhere as a surprise/bonus (it is a Mom thing!!!!). If he looses the card and/or cash he will go without!

    A boy that is old enough to go to Jamboree should be old enough to keep up with his own money and to make decisions how he wants to handle it!

    Scout Priorities and Responsibilities (Vent)

    in Open Discussion - Program

    Posted

    "Posted by Engineer61

    "Yeh know, I'm not sure priorities are always that cut-and-dried, eh? " Yes...they are! Priorities are absolutely cut and dried.

     

    Yes...I have canceled vacations over long weekends because of school commitments...and work commitments.

     

    That's why I don't bother to make those kinds of plans anymore. I've even sent the rest of the family on the fun outing and stayed to make my work commitments.

     

    Fun is a want....not a need.

     

    Scouting is a want...not a need. Yes...it was a big hit on his grade for the quarter...one letter grade...I am more concerned about the precedent that it sets, however. Only 4 weeks to try to make up the damage."

     

     

    Thank you Jesus that you are not my parent.

    Fun is a NEED!

    Fun is as important if not more important that school work. There definitely needs to be a balance which does not appear here. You can never get your fun back! "All work not play make for a very boring person!" Priorities are somewhat fluid depending on the circumstances. What damage??? that your middle school student went on a camp-out and did not complete a homeowork assignment. I think that life is wayyyyyyy tooooooo shorttttt for this kind of pressure!

    BSA Motorsports - Indy Car

    in Open Discussion - Program

    Posted

    In business when sales are down it is time to increase the advertising budget!!!!

    I hope that the BSA knows the demographics of their prospective (most likely to join) membership base! Also, the demographics of the people that generally are NASCAR fans! By doing the proper analysis the "bang for your buck" can grow!!!

    It is definitely a great looking car and I am sure that most boys would be impressed! Connecting the car to joining, or staying in, Boy Scouts I don't know, but then again I am not an advertising executive!!!!

    sharing space with homeless shelter??

    in Open Discussion - Program

    Posted

    Doesn't anyone else find these statements to be troubling?

     

    "Why on earth would a troop, boy scouts or girl scouts subject their kids to an environment such as the one basement mentions? Again, I wouldn't allow it in a million years, that is, the kids in my charge being subject to that environment and calling it Scouting.

    Kids should be out starting campfires with flint and steel, catching, cleaning, and eating a trout, making rope bridges and towers, shooting arrows, canoeing, and all that good stuff. They will see the seedy side of life soon enough and if they go to college, they'll be forced to take Sociology and really have it fed to them.

    I'd pull my kids out of scouts in a second if their program steered away from scoutcraft and outdoor skills and into areas where my kids would be in any proximity to vagrant drug users and alchoholics."

    Committee vs Leader

    in Open Discussion - Program

    Posted

    Quite often "new" or "uninvolved" parents would like to do something to help, but feel slightly intimidated or left out. A way to draw them in is to partner two of them up. Example can the two of your coordinate and bring a cooler and ice? Then hand each of them a piece of paper and pen and suggest, "why don't y'all exchange information and we will see you both at 8am Saturday"

    Smoking During Campouts

    in Open Discussion - Program

    Posted

    We have several adult leaders who are overweight. We are thinking about asking them to step down and not attend any more meetings or campouts. How should we approach them? I think that is it a bad example and if the scouts see that they are overweight then they will think it is Ok and will begin to overeat so that they can emulate their leaders.

    Should we limit leadership to one type of person?

    in Open Discussion - Program

    Posted

    ScoutMomSD I am sorry to hear that you are so very distressed over the possibility that Proposition 8 will pass in California and ban same sex marriages! It is my understanding that you would not mind your son having an openly gay SM but do not want leaders without children in the troop to be there. A scout that will never be allowed to go on a campout without his parents being present is really CREEPY!

     

     

    In addition, I am just thanking the dear lord that you are not a parent in our troop!

     

     

    Judging Others

     

    An elephant asked a camel, "Why are your breasts on your back?"

     

    "Well," says the camel, "I think that's a strange question from somebody whose wiener is on his face.

    (This message has been edited by TWOMORROWS)

    Got the new uniform

    in Uniforms

    Posted

    I have seen the new shirts with the pockets tacked down around the edges so that they do not stick out! Also an USA flag over the plastic thing! Don't think either of these would be against BSA policy. Don't know why they have the tech slit!!!!

     

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