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    Columbus, Ohio
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    Scouting leadership, managing adults, managing council, techniques for recruiting in Boy Scouts
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    Scoutmaster for a troop in Columbus, Ohio with 30+ years of experience with Scouting.

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  1. Ha - I took the Scouts to Mohican State Park this weekend and as seems to be par for the course with every campout in the last 7 years - it rained, hard. So the Scout skills changed from planning for a hike with a significant rise to starting a fire in the rain. All sorts of fire starters - none of them worked. So the old man (me) said, "Boys, you're not building this thee right way. You need a tepee shape and the right starter" So of course in my backpack I have three small sticks of "pipestone" wood. I put my twigs together, kindling and the pipestone and then arrange all of the wood f
  2. That is well said - "Will you be around for our Scouts" My two sons are in the Boy Scout troop but the oldest will age out next year and the youngest struggles at times but the unit is being built for the community, not just for us. I keep telling parents that they should "own it" and they will get more from it. Lack of parent involvement is an issue in the urban setting with single family parent and 3 kids or more.
  3. You know what.. that's a very good point. I know kids who have been in Scouts because they like to camp and have fun. I think if they get into Scouts and camp with us and have fun I can convince them that the badges are being completed just by having fun and that a bigger goal can do a lot of good for them in their lives.
  4. We were preparing for a campout and I had a couple of Scouts load up a backpack with all of the gear we were taking with us. We went to the community center where we based the unit and as we walked in with the backpack a small crowd of kids followed us in wondering what we were doing. We sat down and showed them how to pack clothing, rolling it up, a first aid kit, water and the importance of water when hiking and camping. They stayed through the entire meeting. We are going to build a slide show and we will have a lot more chances to get their attention this summer. We based our unit at
  5. Thanks all - I am looking for insights anyone might be able to share working with urban poor youth. My unit is located in a regentrifying neighborhood - if you are north on one side of a street - $650k home if you are south of that same street $100k homes (if that much). There is a big discrepancy there and the urban affluent are just having kids and the urban poor have younger and older kids. Any insights on how to approach an 11 year old boy about joining Scouts? It's a tough putt... I often see this kids without their parents, had one boy join Scouts and his mom signed him right up. I
  6. I am a newly minted Scoutmaster working on building a troop in an urban area predominantly split between a low income neighborhood and a high income neighborhood and working through Scouts to make a neighborhood a community.
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