Giltweasel

We are set up with age segregated Patrols. This is what I inherited. Coming Monday we have a PLC and Patrol reorganization is on the agenda. It will be interesting to hear what the arguments are. Very much looking forward to some younger guys arguing that they have as much credibility in their woodcraft skills as some of the older Eagle-bound parlour Scouts, and should be given more chances for Troop leadership and authority. Or it might be more smolder and less fire. Love this stuff.

These all seem like great issues for the PL or youth-side trek planner to be exposed to. It might be interesting to compare notes with a separately tasked adult to see if there are things they come up with that the adults don't think about.

Seems that one of the requirements for post-1C rank is teaching certain skills via EDGE method. You might be familiar with this fact, I don't know. Maybe "Scoutcraft" isn't a prerequisite for a leadership position, but there have been plenty of threads and posts on this forum that complain about older Scouts with rank that can't tie the basic knots or start a fire. It makes sense to have the skills if you're expected to teach the skills, right? The point is not that the younger Scouts should have the Scoutcraft skills, but that the older Scouts, who would otherwise waste their tenure(as th

I think we're going to do our first ITLS session in the next couple weeks. The first part is going to be a hiking/camping overnighter to weed out the few kids that feel they should get PORs despite their aversion to Scoutcraft and campouts. The second session is likely to be a lock-in with pizza as suggested above. In the coming years I can see TLTs being organized around different kinds of outings to keep them fresh. Theme park visits, a day at the lake, skiing or winter sports day at the local fake mountain. Plenty of opportunities to try new environments for the training. Just a matt

wahooker said: "A Little background: I have 1 Webelos, 2 Tigers, and Daisy, and a wife that is a very involved GSUSA leader. I would love to have a co-ed program. More specifically, I would love to have a program for girls that is as well run as the BSA's Cub Scout program is. I find the current Girl Scout program as it is delivered and run by the local council to be a disorganized trainwreck with little or no support for leaders." My family's experience with GSUSA reflects what you are saying in your post. We found the program inconsistent and lacking at the Troop level, and the national

I want to emphasize that this forum is an inspiration. In dealing with the multitude frustrations that are inherent to Scouting, seeing others having the same situations, and seeing that they have dealt with those situations effectively really helps me repair my enthusiasm. Thank you all, once again!

Hello everyone, I've been lurking here for a few months trying to gauge the different approaches to Scouting so I can take advantage of all your collective years of experience. I've noticed the forum has had a system update and that caused me some issues with looking for threads I needed to reference, so I went ahead an joined up so I could better use the new forum software and participate in the conversations. I have to admit, it seems more than a little buggy at the moment, but I'm sure things are on the mend. Like Scouting itself, when the backbone of an organization is based on