cajuncody

What bothers me is that this boy is a member on paper only. He doens't come to the meetings, I haven't seen him advance in rank, he doesn't come to hikes, camps, or service projects. I can't even put a face with a name because in my entire time I have never seen him. He doesn't even come to the race but up untill last year his family were the "reigning champs" and always won all the races (Best of show, speed, sibling, and adult classes). He doesn't help with his car and is not even allowed to touch it. The only time you hear his name is at the race and you may see him at a party. this isn't Scouting.

The CM doesn't have a problem with this but I do and so do my boys in the Wolf den. How can I explain this to them?

Kristi

Unfortunatley little Johnny and Dad don't come to the race. They send the car with the CM and he races it. If it wins the CM takes it to district. I don't think Johnny even gets to touch the car. It is always too perfect. It is all about winning and the awards. If you don't come, why race?

Kristi

Just going to go ahead and vent:

Just talked to current CM and he said that "Little Johnny" and his dad were already working on their cars to beat my sons and my own car (we blew everyone away last year) this year at derby. I have no problem with competition, heck "Bring it on!" I had a blast last year. My pinewood pet peeve is that "little Johnny" and his family have attended maybe 1 meeting since September. I say 1 because I can remember none but he may have been in the group at the Election party. I don't think he should be allowed to compete. This is wrong for our other boys who have attended all the meetings. Is there anything I can do?

Kristi

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Kristi(This message has been edited by cajuncody)

I run the uniform bank I started for my pack but we currently don't have any available. Please try http://www.euxnetwork.net

Ora helped to put one of my new leaders in a shirt, Very good to deal with.

Kristi

If the link doesn't work send me a private message and I will send y ou his email addy.

Kristi

I received this from my sister and plan to use it with our pack (with minor changes for a couple of inappropriate phrases.

Kristi

Below is an article written by Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated. He details his experiences when given the opportunity to fly in a F-14 Tomcat. If you aren't laughing out loud by the time you get to "Milk Duds," your sense of humor is broken.

"Now this message is for America's most famous athletes:

Someday you may be invited to fly in the back-seat of one of your country's most powerful fighter jets. Many of you already have ... John Elway, John Stockton, Tiger Woods to name a few. If you get this opportunity, let me urge you, with the greatest sincerity...

Move to Guam.

Change your name.

Fake your own death!

Whatever you do .

Do Not Go!!!

I know. The U.S. Navy invited me to try it. I was thrilled. I was pumped. I was toast! I should've known when they told me my pilot would be Chip (Biff) King of Fighter Squadron 213 at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach.

Whatever you're thinking a Top Gun named Chip (Biff) King looks like, triple it. He's about six-feet, tan, ice-blue eyes, wavy surfer hair, finger-crippling handshake -- the kind of man who wrestles dyspeptic alligators in his leisure time. If you see this man, run the other way. Fast.

Biff King was born to fly. His father, Jack King, was for years the voice of NASA missions. ("T-minus 15 seconds and counting ....." Remember?) Chip would charge neighborhood kids a quarter each to hear his dad. Jack would wake up from naps surrounded by nine-year-olds waiting for him to say, "We have a liftoff."

Biff was to fly me in an F-14D Tomcat, a ridiculously powerful $60 million weapon with nearly as much thrust as weight, not unlike Colin Montgomerie. I was worried about getting airsick, so the night before the flight I asked Biff if there was something I should eat the next morning.

"Bananas," he said.

"For the potassium?" I asked.

"No," Biff said, "because they taste about the same coming up as they do going down."

The next morning, out on the tarmac, I had on my flight suit with my name sewn over the left breast. (No call sign -- like Crash or Sticky or Leadfoot . but, still, very cool.) I carried my helmet in the crook of my arm, as Biff had instructed. If ever in my life I had a chance to nail Nicole Kidman, this was it.

A fighter pilot named Psycho gave me a safety briefing and then fastened me into my ejection seat, which, when employed, would "egress" me out of the plane at such a velocity that I would be immediately knocked unconscious.

Just as I was thinking about aborting the flight, the canopy closed over me, and Biff gave the ground crew a thumbs-up. In minutes we were firing nose up at 600 mph. We leveled out and then canopy-rolled over another F-14.

Those 20 minutes were the rush of my life. Unfortunately, the ride lasted 80. It was like being on the roller coaster at Six Flags Over Hell. Only without rails. We did barrel rolls, sap rolls, loops, yanks and banks. We dived, rose and dived again, sometimes with a vertical velocity of 10,000 feet per minute. We chased another F-14, and it chased us.

We broke the speed of sound. Sea was sky and sky was sea. Flying at 200 feet we did 90-degree turns at 550 mph, creating a G force of 6.5, which is to say I felt as if 6.5 times my body weight was smashing against me, thereby approximating life as Mrs. Colin Montgomerie.

And I egressed the bananas. I egressed the pizza from the night before.

And the lunch before that. I egressed a box of Milk Duds from the sixth grade. I made Linda Blair look polite. Because of the G's, I was egressing stuff that did not even want to be egressed. I went through not one airsick bag, but two.

Biff said I passed out. Twice. I was coated in sweat. At one point, as we were coming in upside down in a banked curve on a mock bombing target and the G's were flattening me like a tortilla and I was in and out of consciousness, I realized I was the first person in history to throw down.

I used to know cool. Cool was Elway throwing a touchdown pass, or Norman making a five-iron bite. But now I really know cool. Cool is guys like Biff, men with cast-iron stomachs and freon nerves. I wouldn't go up there again for Derek Jeter's black book, but I'm glad Biff does every day, and for less a year than a rookie reliever makes in a home stand.

A week later, when the spins finally stopped, Biff called. He said he and the fighters had the perfect call sign for me. Said he'd send it on a patch for my flight suit.

What is it? I asked.

"Two Bags."

I think that a Cub would like it because I keep it fun and get involved.

I think a parent would like it because we are always learning something new and I get involved.

So:

Fun, Learning, and involved leader . . .

works for me!

Kristi

Trevorum,

I appreciate that you don't agree with me on that point. It was a poorly chosen example. I should have said that it would be a poor example if the CM could not show proper reverence. Thus my quandry would have been how am I to teach my son proper reverence if an adult leader that he looks up to can not show it.

Thank you for pointing out the flaw in my ill conceived email

Kristi

I read through this over the course of a couple of days and kept from replying because I could see the set up. I wanted to add that how could I expect an athiest to teach my son proper behavior if he doesn't bow his head during prayer. It is sometimes hard to get a 7 yr old to remember that and if he pointed out "well our CM doesn't why should I?" I would be upset with leadership.

Now, the reason I am replying is off topic but a valid point. Why at the end, when the gloves came off and Mhager resorted to name calling and showing his true nature (no, I don't think a Christian would have posted a message like that) did he have to resort to regional insults? He responded " "them's the rules so that's what we do". " and he was clearly calling us idiots but doing it by using a typed southern reference. I have been told all my life that when a person from other parts of the country hear a southerner speak that they always lower their expectations of our IQ. His reply is proof of that. So sad to see an Eagle fly so far off course.

Kristi

At our roundtable last night our District Training Chair announced that there will be a new training opp for the youth in troop leadership positions modeled after the woodbadge course. I will post details as I get them. I sure do hope this goes nation wide.

Kristi

Thank the powers that be that my 7 yr old is not reading these posts. "Mother, may I play my PS2 all night on a school night?" "No, you may not".

What message am I sending to him???!!!

Kristi

Hee hee, I even have my Campaign Hat. It's not as if I can ask my boys to wear a uniform if I can't do the same myself. Plus, I like the hat.

Kristi

Me again! I need a ceremony for crossing over 2 boys inside a church. I would like a "show stopper". Since this will be my first act as Cubmaster I am hoping to really start off with a bang. Please send me suggestions or web sites.

Kristi

It is still alive here but nearing its end I hope. both my son's have the duel thingy that goes on the arm but it seems that Wallyworld has plenty left over from Christmas. Usually that is a good sign it is on the way out.

Kristi

I bought the last thing needed for me to be in "complete" uniform. I had been using a web belt that looked like the CS belt with the exception of the buckle and width. I was at council yesterday turning in my assistant's University of Scouting registration so I went in the scout shop and bought the belt. I said "Finally, my uniform is complete" and the lady behind the counter said "Oh, you already have socks too?" DOH! So I bought the silly little green and red socks. Complete at last . . . for now.

Kristi

A waterproof container of matches and a cooking stick (or 2).

Kristi

I think a visit or two with a local cub pack would help. It is always fun to watch the newest scouts going at it with wide eyed wonder. Get away from the adults and let the little ones show you what you are missing.

Kristi

http://www.marthastewart.com/page.jhtml?type=content&id=channel189343&catid=cat333

This is close, a change of color and decorations should give you what you want. I think I will try it too.

Kristi

In regards to getting duplicates of rank patches:

Our scout shop will sell them to you as long as you have proof of them being earned. I recently picked up my son's Wolf Badge (CM forgot to buy it) and all I had to do was get a copy of his current rank at the front desk of council. Quick and easy.

Kristi

http://www.transpor.com/

Seems like it would be a good thing to add. I would buy it.

If it would work that is (edited Part)

Kristi(This message has been edited by cajuncody)

Good to see that I did ok with that. The post I spun this from talked about having beer on campouts and keeping it put up till the boys were in tents. In my opinion if you are keeping it put up till the boys are in tents then you know good and well it shouldn't be there.

Kristi

(my husband was not in a uniform and has no part in scout leadership, I sent him away anyway as he was sitting with us)

I have a great fundraising idea.

I would pay good money if CNN would stop showing the heart wrenching stories of:

man searching for pregnant wife and child

woman searching for child swept from arms

child searching for parents

and all of the other equally horrifying stories of survival and loss.

I feel for these people but there is just so much that I can take. They don't need their stories out there as much as our news networks put them. Give them some dignified time to mourn and let me go through the day without picturing my own child being swept away (and thanking God that it wasn't.)

I would pay, many of us would pay.

Kristi

Please don't take this post the wrong way, I truly empathise but just can't handle all of the grief.

Well, that is one way to make them popular. Maybe we could get Brittany to wear one too.

Kristi

I was reading through some old threads and wanted to post in regards to alcohol and scout activities. Last year was my first year and I am married to a truck driver. We were at the "field of dreams" for our scout pack on the 4th of July at the local baseball stadium. The scouts went on the field with the players for the national anthem and then we all sat down to enjoy the game. Imagine my shock at seeing my husband sitting there in the stands with a beer. I pulled him to the side and told him I thought that was a no-no in front of scouts and sent him to the concession area to finish it. (just couldn't make him pour it out ) In a situation like this at a public stadium during a game while others are drinking was I in the wrong? Our CM didn't say anything about the situation or how I handled it.

Input?

Kristi

I am a big fan of the "uniform price is too high" party. I am trying to outfit financially challenged volunteers for my pack. It may seem to some that parents should be able to pay their own way but it is hard here in rural East Tennessee.

Kristi

(Anyone have a tan 2xl to donate?

Thanks, this is my first year running one on my own so I need all the help I can get. I will give this a go!

Kristi