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  1. For shorter trips, leaders pay for their own gas - including the trailer-hauler. We have three leaders competent to haul the trailer at this point. For longer trips (a couple of hours' drive, usually) leaders either get reimbursed for actual gas or it gets put on one leader's credit card and I reimburse him (being treasurer). So it ends up costing me a little bit less than a tank of gas, depending on when we fuel up on the drive home. Scouts only pay for their own groceries. Vicki
  2. What Fuzzy Bear said! That could have been me typing that - although I'm not quite as far along the road as he is. Vicki - Bear patrol C-12-04
  3. As one who has accomplished 2 of 5 tickets, what I have found so far about Wood Badge is that it showed me once again that there are some very dedicated people involved with Scouting and I am proud to be a junior member of their fraternity. It has also sensitized me to what needs doing in my troop and opened my eyes to ways in which I can contribute. I figure so far I've done about 6 tickets since I completed training, but four of them I hadn't written up! Bear patrol C-12-04, Eamonn - Energetic Eight Clawed!
  4. Acco40 wrote "Scouts is a great vehicle for bringing people ... together. Learn from it." Truer words were never spoken. YIS, Vicki
  5. Shane, I had read the article you posted (along with a LOT of others) while deciding how to best deal with my son's LD/ADD issues. Living with him, I know he is disabled. I also know it bothers him. I haven't said anything about whether or not he's medicated, just that he has that particular set of issues. And I happen to agree with you that there are a lot of kids out there who are being medicated out of expediency. But the main issue, to my mind, and one of the other posters already mentioned it, is dealing with the behavior - no matter what is causing it. As scouters it's not up
  6. For dealing with the inattentive type of ADD, this web-site has been very helpful to me - both practically and just to keep things in perspective. The name says it all "Who put the Ketchup in the Medicine Cabinet". http://www.goaskmom.com/ Vicki
  7. BSAT17 - my son is ADD/inattentive and LD (smart kid with difficulty processing information). If the boy you're dealing with is at all similar to my son, if he's having an "off" night, the most valuable thing you can do is just let him be. My son is not disruptive (the ADD/inattentives aren't), he just "zones out". In the format of a troop meeting, you can't get his attention without singling him out. As others have pointed out, this is not productive. If you can, make sure you circle back and try to fill him in on what he missed later or, depending on how involved his parents are with hi
  8. Eamonn, let me suggest another possibility. When I was that age I also started sleeping a lot - naps after school, early to bed, etc. My mom took me to the doctor when I also started complaining about joint pain. The first diagnosis was low iron - not completely correct. Turned out after further testing that I had hypothyroidism - a condition where the pituitary doesn't stimulate the thyroid gland to produce enough thyroid. Simple fix - take prescribed thyroid. With the exception of a couple of years I've taken it ever since. It is usually a female "thing" but my brother has it too so i
  9. Congratulations! I'm working my third ticket, planning to finish up in March (best laid plans...). Please post how it goes - I won't do mine at a Roundtable, would like to do it at a COH, but we have them every six months and will have done one in February. Current thought is to announce that it's going to be done at a troop meeting and have cookies and punch afterwards. Go Bears!! Vicki
  10. Responding to women in OA, which I realize is off-thread, sorry. Grumpy, two of the three female leaders in our troop have been elected to OA - I come up for eligibility and possible election this summer (guess who #3 is?). Same requirements as the guys and youth, obviously. The other ladies involved with the troop just aren't as active and don't camp. As for girls in Cub Scouts - interesting concept but, as you've heard already from others more knowledgeable than I, not even remotely a possibility at this point. Haven't any of these people with boys who've gone through WeBeLos looked
  11. OK, a thought I haven't seen expressed in the six pages of this thread - don't boys benefit from seeing men and women working together in leadership? No matter who is "the leader" - doesn't our training tell us it's a team? Our troop has three women who go on a lot of outings (myself and two others). We seem to be hybrid leaders - involved in all aspects of the troop with no real distinction made between committee member and ASM. There are also four men who go on a lot of outings - again committee members and ASMs. Whichever combination of us goes, the boys have the opportunity to see us
  12. Came to this thread a little late but - I'm an accountant and contracts negotiator, currently using my other "knocked around a lot" experience to be Church Business Administrator for a large church. Have also been radio news reporter, D.J. and theatre electrician. Two boys - a Star scout and a WeBeLos 1. Woodbadger (Bear), camper and treasurer. Wish Girl Scouts had offered the kind of program the BSA does - wouldn't have quit in 7th grade. Vicki
  13. Obviously, once again, there is variance from troop to troop. Ours tends to take the selection process pretty seriously. 2003 one of nine was selected. 2004 seven of fourteen were selected. My first-year-of-qualification son was not one of them - no argument with the process there since he had been a turkey a couple of times (I was there but intentionally spent most of my time staying out of my son's way, lifeguarding at the lake so I'm not even sure what he did, just know it happened). Vicki
  14. From the perspective of one who is "working her tickets" - when I first volunteered, I looked at the Scoutmaster and the rest of the leadership and thought "wow, now there's a lot of experience". Then I took Leader training and thought "wow, now THERE'S a lot of experience". Then I took Wood Badge and thought "WOW, NOW THERE'S a LOT of experience". What I've taken away from it so far is that training/learning is a continuum - like the highway, there's always going to be someone in front and someone behind. I know I've learned a lot, I just can't point at one specific thing. Insidious is
  15. OK, I'm new here - not the cyber-world, just here. Also relatively new as a Scouter (my 7th grader just made Life and I just took Wood Badge in the fall). But for what it's worth I do want to share an experience at our most recent PACAO - we only had seven boys. Our fall attendance is always low because of soccer, football and the closing days of baseball. Coaches are not flexible, so we have to be. We did combine them into one patrol and they absolutely stepped up to the challenge, earning Honor and Merit and, as far as we know, getting the high score (795 of 800) on the events as well a
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