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I know I'm necro-ing an old thread of mine but this scout just completed this. His mom had one question and I cannot find the answer anywhere. There is a form for everyone to sign and her to fill out to submit for his emblem. Do you turn in that same form at the scout shop for his knot? They want to present the knot at our B&G after he gets the emblem at his church. But we can't find a form anywhere online for it while the scout shop website says you have to turn in paperwork (I haven't called ours as its closed right now and told her I'd check here.) If I don't get a reply, we'll just cal

Great, thanks! I looked up the compass and points (I didn't realize they were earned via earning the pins that are going away.) So I'm still unsure if they will be obtainable with the new adventure pins or cease like arrow points. Assuming the latter but not putting it down in stone until I can find confirmation.

Hi all, While working more on my training manual for our pack regarding new changes, I came across another question. Will the new adventure pins for Webelos be worn on the existing Webelos colors or another device? I know the Tiger, Wolf and Bear immediate recognition devices are being phased out and wasn't sure if this was, too (or if it was classified as one.) Up until recently I didn't know a whole lot about Webelos devices/insignia. While looking up the colors, I saw the Webelos Scout Compass and Compass Points. Will those also be going away? I tried searching here and through the of

We meet the first and third Monday of every month, along with a pack meet the last Monday of the month. It works perfectly for us and if we have a special trip to make, we usually schedule it on a non-Monday date.

As a Bear den leader with 15 regulars, I understand where you're coming from (I also know we should be two dens but it just wasn't happening this year.) Normally, 12-14 attend as of lately, which is wonderful. I always send a text to the parents that didn't attend after the meet letting them know what we did and to message me if they have any questions. Some will reply back, some won't. Most complete it at home by the next meeting. If they don't - as everyone else has said here, so be it. I know we'll have a couple that will not rank up in February. Their parents bring them to most meets

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Always good to have an oddball around Welcome!

Welcome from another Carolinian (SC here.) Glad to have you here and thanks for your help earlier

Thank you so much, y'all have a great rest of the week!

Also, thank you for that website link. It finally loaded on my end. Apparently devices have been around longer than I realized, I'm not sure why more sites don't have that info up (maybe I'm just looking in all the wrong areas.) Part of me wishes I'd have been around when they had all the different knots for each area (I get the uniform looks much neater now but I always liked that how they told a story so-to-speak when I'd see others wearing them.) I do know I'm getting the knot and the Cub Scouting device (I've since spoken to our advancement person since posting.) So unless I can wear th

I have no idea. Up until today, I didn't know they existed! lol. Just when I think I know a good bit too

Thank you, j.edi! Don't know how I missed those as I have both of those sites bookmarked. Last question. Under the new (I assume they are new?) setup, if you get a knot first, then a device, how does one earn the Tiger cub device if your first year was as a Tiger leader? Is that if you do more than one year as one? Thanks again! Ok, I may have answered myself. Seeing "The others, along with the Cub Scout, Boy Scout, and Venturing devices are worn on Training Awards and Scouter's Keys." - I assume that means you only earn the Tiger one as a scout, not as a leader. So you'd get the Cub Scou

Gotcha Do you by chance know what the device is? I didn't mind having the two blue/gold knots to represent Tiger and Wolf but now they are saying its one knot and one device (I can't find the device anywhere online nor the info stating that.) I'm in charge of training our pack on everything new coming out in the next year (I have a nifty little manual made up) but am sorely lacking in the awards department (what changed, what hasn't, etc.) Thanks, Jason!

Hi all, I had a question I hope someone can help me with. This is my third year as a den leader. Some other leaders in our pack recently told us about the knots we could earn (I knew of them but never attempted to get one) and encouraged us to apply for them. I'd previously read that in 2012, the individual rank knots were retired (one for Tiger, one for Wolf/Bear and one for Webelos.) I also read that if I applied for my two knots (one of Tiger year and one for Wolf year) I'd get two of the blue and gold knots. So after filling out my two applications, that's what I was left to assume I

How awesome, thank you for sharing and great job to him on his popcorn sales!!

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Welcome! Glad to have you here Jump right in and take everything with a grain of salt (or don't and whine, it won't break too much I promise )

You used correct punctuation and let us know where one sentence ended and another began. That's more than some people on the internet do with no excuse All jokes aside, please let us know how it goes. Hoping for the best for y'all!

I agree with a lot of the suggestions here. I would not send him away (I've had problematic scouts and problematic parents - when its the parents, I try my very best to keep the scout with us parents-willing and scout-wanting.) With that being said, I would sit down with the mom and talk it out, plain and simple. I try not to be an overly confrontational person but if I see a parent doing wrong repeatedly (which I have encountered, thankfully, only a few times) I want to get to the bottom of it. A few have eventually dropped out afterwards but some actually backed off and let their scout do th

I accidentally did that once (I bought my first smart phone this past May.) I had so many bothered people by all the messages and I couldn't stop them. Thankfully there was an app that let me type it to all of them but replies coming back were to me only. Whoever made the group chat to all option was crazy

As much as I love email, others do not share that sentiment. Each year, I gather phone numbers and email addresses from parents. I started out emailing - then realized half of them didn't check their emails (some to the point where it bounced back because the email was no longer active.) Then I did only texting. A few parents kept having their numbers changed or phones cut off temporarily so that wasn't working. I mentioned Facebook to a few and they jumped all over that and was the most effective way to reach them. Sadly, I had to cut that out as this year when our den grew dou

We do this as well (pretty sure I read that tip here!) We have a good bit of scouts that wear them to each meet and I can only think of twice that a few beads escaped. Each year I have plenty of leftovers that I pass to the next den leader for spares. I also hand them out at den meets as I try to uphold the 'immediate' part to the best of my ability

Thanks again I didn't think it was required but wanted to make sure (I knew it was an option for us this year as Bears but not mandatory.) Once I read through the sites I too saw it wasn't part of the BSA but accepted by them as jblake47 stated. You learn something new every day

That is awesome and especially so that he is willing to be flexible in what he will present! We recently had someone come out from our local raptors and animal sanctuary to speak at our September pack meet. She brought one of her birds with her and discussed many of the ones she had at the sanctuary, how they got there, along with some endangered species around here. She also covered on why it was illegal to have certain real feathers in your possession (which a fellow den leader then tied into the feathers OA members use which was fascinating to all of us that had no idea.) Since i