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Phrogger

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  1. Fred, I think the biggest issue is that most of the activities are geared towards older scouts. There isn't much for tweens to be interested in. I totally agree there needs to be an intermediate program, that participates with the Troop sometimes but does age-appropriate activities on their own as well. I don't see any mentorship happening from the older to the younger boys, just a lot of ordering them around. I guess my question is, is it worth trying another troop or is it typical that troops mainly do these events more geared towards older teens? Otherwise we might sit out the next couple
  2. Hoping for some encouragement. My son crossed over to Boy Scouts at the end of last year. His den leader decided to cross all the boys early and finish Webelos I and II in one year. I did not agree to this but had no choice about it. I feel we were cheated out of a summer of Cub Scouts and a transition year. But I digress. We joined the same Boy Scout troop that his friends did. Boy Scouts is such a different program than Cub Scouts. In the past few years (we were in Cubs 3 years) the Cub Scouts we were involved with made efforts to include STEM activities and things such as model rockets
  3. Actually if that's the rule, it would make me feel sooooo much better.
  4. Thanks for all the great suggestions. To answer a few specifics, I'm sure my son is immature for his age; he has issues in school which require an intervention team. He doesn't have any official diagnoses but I'd say he might even be high-functioning asperger's. But you can't really tell except his behavior seems really annoying sometimes, which makes it hard for him to make friends. The other thing is, he doesn't like the outdoors all that much, even though he's enjoyed the camping trips with the Cub Scouts. He's on the fence about Scouts and almost quit a year ago. Then we moved to a much m
  5. My son started in scouts as a Wolf. This year he's in 4th grade, and is a Webelos 1. Sometime during the year, the den leader decided that the boys should finish Webelos in one year and cross over early. I only realized this when I started getting emails reminding us to work on our AOL requirements. I'm a pretty involved parent, I go to at least 80% of the meetings (my spouse does the other 20%) but I don't remember this ever being discussed, and I would not have agreed to it. We moved councils last year so when we joined we were new to the Pack and didn't know many people, so it's possible th
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