Sidney Porter

I understand the love for patrol cooking but I don't know if that is reasonable to do away with the dinning halls. We should not forget the cub resident programs that also use these facilites (I am of the belief that the cub members dues pay for a lot of the camps that they are not able to use this would cut out even more of the camps). If the packs were responsible to cook that is going to fall on the leaders (for wolfs and bears - not allowed to cook outdoors), even a Webelos 1 is going to need a lot of supervision. It would cause an increase of parents needing to come and be more like

I question the BSA having a merit badge for just about everything. When you have as many merit badges as we have it becomes a buffet. You get exposure to a lot of items but you don't focus on any. So we can complain that the scouts don't have the indepth knowledge on how to tie knots but they probably know a little bit about other subjects. I also question some of the focus on STEM. When taught correctly you can incorporate SEM into an outdoor setting (personally I think that T is part of the problem with scouts not being outdoors). But I have a feeling that a lot of this (especially at t

This. It isn't just scouting and it isn't just in the USA. it has been a shift that has really been going on since the late 60's early 70's. We have access to more information today but less access to actually experiencing it. Nature has become something yo u visit and look at rather than something you experience. For those who have not read it I recommend reading Last Child in the Woods which attepts to make connection on how we evolved over the last 40 years.

You may want to consider when to award him the Bobcat. Typically I like to see the tigers working on the items together and earning bobcat together. Some of the parents may get annoyed if at the first meeting the den leaders kid walks away with a bunch of awards incuding Bobcat before they even understand the program. IMHO one of the goals of the den leader is to get the scouts to come together as a den. Working on the requirements at the same time helps this. By no means do I intend to say that the your son did not earn the items and should not of gone to summer camp. It is a great thing

Summer camp should provide a list of what the scout should have earned. They may give that to the actual scout or to the unit. Yes tigers can earn sports and academic belt loops (at least next year). I don't think the Pro Marksman is the actual requirement. Although I am going to agree he probably earned it. My understanding of the requirements it must be completed at a district / council. Because of this the BAS doesn't actually publish the requirements on their website. http://www.scouting.org/Home/CubScouts/CubScouts/UniformsAndAwards/sanda/asterisk.aspx But some non official si

I think you are missing that it is a 2 way street. It sounds like that you want to shame the them church into doing something. You mentioned in your first post that the church has a large youth group but no youth in scouting? What recruiting have you done at the Church? What service projects have you done for the Church? If the Church has food drive, fund raiser etc how do the scouts participate. What did the scouts do last Feb for Scout Sunday? What value have you added to the Church to sponsor your unit?

Scanning this I am missing that requirement http://www.scouting.org/Home/BoyScouts/AdvancementandAwards/MeritBadges/mb-ENVS.aspx

For 12 we go the parents involved. We made the parents act out (roll play) the scenario, when then stopped it and had the scouts discuss how it could come out poorly vs good decisions. Some of the parents really enjoyed in, they knew their skit several weeks ahead of time we had them go practice for a couple meetings rather than winging it.

Couple thoughts since it is a Church you would probably need to complete it Friday- Sat rather than Sat - Sun. The other option would be to have it over Christmas break and have it through the week. You should also look at the youth protection rules when it comes to sleeping in a large room. Do you need to accomodate different areas for gender, adults and scouts?

Assuming that there is space I think that I would want them to set up tents.

Wolf 1 - f, g, h, i, j, k and l pick one you did not do at summer camp 2 - They are going to do flag stuff throughout scouting, we start evey meeting with a flag ceromony 3 - I would probably not make the kids chart their progress a 2nd time but they other stuff is relatively easy and good cover 4 - If they already did the phone list have them confirm it is current, visit a different historical location, I doubt they tracked their chores for a month at day camp, the other stuff is pretty quick 5 - Build something else. At that age they need practice with tools 6 - Have them start a

What I like about raingutter is that even a tiger can shape balsa wood. Go by a couple of boards and cut them to length and tell them to go at it. You will get much more creativity

It might of taken us 4 or 5 meetings. We went to a city council meeting and they got to meet the mayor but that was a meeting in itself. Same with the service project that ended up being a meeting. We meet 3x a month and it seems like citizenship took a big chunk of time. They liked the flag history piece better than the social studies stuff.

Sure he made it political from the git go but I don't know if the parade is political from the git go. I would argue that the parade is not appropriate for the scouts to be represented in because of the sexual nature but that is not the same as political.

I have never been to a gay pride parade so I don't know if they are any more political than a 4th of July parade or a Irish Heritage parade on St Patrick's day. At most parades it is jist people walking, riding, marching etc. I could see if it ends in a rally with people speaking that could cross the line of political.

I have a friend who is a professor he was using WTF to mean "What's This For?". He would write it on papers when he was grading and certain sections were irrelavant. Someone poionted out the other meaning. I guess it worked either way. We ended up getting him a rubber stamp with WTF that now sits on his desk

I think the Wal Mart house brand Ozak Trail makes some good value for the moeny products when it comes to car camping. My understainding is that they are manufactured by Wenzel. I have both a 6 and 4 person dome. I like the dome because they are easy to put up. I see some families with 6 and 8 person multi room tents that takes a pretty long time to assemble.

It almost appears that the CM is attempting to shift the program to have the same leader stay with the den. You ex-wife is staying with the Tigers, the wolf is staying with the wolf and he expected you GF to stay with the Bears. In his master plan you were the only one advancing but from Web 1 to Web 2. This method could work but it is not the norm with cub scouts and he did not sell the approach. I question if it is sustainable with parents as den leaders. You almost need to get people that no longer have cub scout age scouts but still want to be involved. It seems like most of people t

I was Parliamentarian of student senate for 2 years in college. I knew way more rules than anyone should. Like Twocubdad said it can be used for both negative and positive.

What was last year's wolf den leaders opinion? I assume that leader planned on moving up to the bear den.

Don't use email. Email is easy to ignore. Especially if it looks like it is a blast email. Ask people in person or by phone. You can also word it as I need you to drive here rather than asking. You have 100 scouts that is a lot of parents. You are only asking them to drive to one or 2 activities a year. Make it easy to have people sign up. My son's swim team uses a site to register which meets you will be volunteering at at the beginning of the season. We know who will be timmers, officials, bull pen etc at the beginning of the year. It also guilts the parent who doesn't volunteer when t

I am going to take a guess. It is #3 with a little bit of 1 or 2. They are doing construction on the camp during the construction period they are limiting the number of people that can use the facilities that limitation is to council/district. I would think a phone call could figure this out.

So for those taking a hardline with the gaurdianship. How do you handle parents that have been divorced and then either remarried or in a dating live in relationship? More than likely the new spouse is not the legal guardian (and even less likely if it is a dating relationship), would you say that they cannot share a tent on a camp out? A lot of time the scout may even live with the person in question. I agree this is solved if the scouts sleep with scouts. We encourage that with webelos. But that requires 2x the tents and space. Normally I will bring 3 tents if car camping with cubs. A

I will buy a 4 dollar box of cookies or 2 dollar candy bar if a kid comes to the door and has the product. Once you get over $10 it depends on the organization or if I know the kid. I have found that if you have the product available it sell much better than taking orders. It is also easier on the scout since they do not need to make multi trips to deliever the product. some one would need to do the math is it easier to sell 5 boxes of cookies or 1 bag of pop corn or 20 candy bars.

personally I would have him share a tent with another scout rather than his own tent.