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"funscout" I like it, I like it, I like it! All very good points!

ohhhh I just LOVE it!

LOL I know what you mean Eamonn, I guess if you become "friends" with someone here, that's when you can choose to give out your information. msnowman, I read that post as well and thought it was pretty stupid. I do agree with your point. As far as that post, I saw it like this, whoever did post or PM to that person, obviously used their name on here and that is what everyone else sees you as, that is not "hiding" as far as I can see As I've said in another thread, I really do love it here, you all are great!!!!

LOL I know what you mean Eamonn, I guess if you become "friends" with someone here, that's when you can choose to give out your information. msnowman, I read that post as well and thought it was pretty stupid. I do agree with your point. As far as that post, I saw it like this, whoever did post or PM to that person, obviously used their name on here and that is what everyone else sees you as, that is not "hiding" as far as I can see As I've said in another thread, I really do love it here, you all are great!!!!

I agree but I sometimes like to see what experience others have, honestly I have yet to look at another profile although I did put lot's of info on myself in mine. I see profiles as a way to get to know someone a little better and feel that as far as what people take from this forum and what is and isn't OK with BSA, isn't there a disclaimer somewhere? I mean if someone reads a post that someone went skinny dipping and called it a BSA event (I hope that didn't happen, but hey I'm new, anything's possible) I would HOPE that anyone with any common sense would not read that and think, "Oh we ca

That sounds cool! I have asked that boys invite a buddy tomorrow night to our den meeting, all the dens meet on the same night/ same place and tomorrow I'm having a pizza party/game night with my den and have included the other dens. I have games that earn belt loops along with a few others...this way the boys who need Chess or Marbles can earn those and those who don't need them can play connect 4, "giant checkers", I spy etc. I thought of the bring a buddy at the last minute though so I don't know if we'll get anyone, but many den meetings would work well if a boy brought a friend.

Good ideas so far, thanks t158sm, What do you mean by "Set up a pack open house at the local mall" Would that just be setting up a booth or do you have other ideas for an "open house"? Yes we do have other packs in the same town, different areas, I think when we pass out info at schools it includes them as well.

Other than going to schools, do any of you have any creative ways to recruit boys? I keep talking about it at our committee/leader meetings, but unless I come up with something to put on the table as to HOW, I can't really say too much. We are in desperate need of more boys and more leadership. We're a Cub Scout Pack with no Bear den, and no leader to run it even if we did get boys. I would possibly end up leading it till we found someone, but first we need to boys to join. We need to get creative.....any ideas????? ~~Amy~~

Now I'm even happier that I started this thread, if it's helping others as well When I went to "Scout University" (which is basically a pow wow)I took a class on flag info such as color guard and they said they do not salute, as Kahuna said...this is because they are there to focus on guarding the flag If I can find the papers from that class, I'll try to attach them for everyone to see

Thank You FScouter, I THINK my boys know that, but they tend to get a little confused. We say "remove all non scouting hats" but you still see some boys remove their uniform hats, and we try to quietly tell them to go ahead and put them back on LOL

SemperParatus, Thanks! I do like you all here, maybe just a "not so great" first impression. Fellow scouters like all of you remind me all the time why I do this. I just want to "Do my best"

whew....you've made me feel better. We had a small group that we took to an event and we were in our uniforms, before the game, they sang the National Anthem like any game...I told the scouts they needed to salute during the song, they did, but NO ONE that I could see put their hand over their heart or anything. I think I heard one kid say, "you need to take off your hat" but I'm not sure if it was one of my scouts (who I'd expect to say that) or one of the non scout kids in the row behind us. I think the scouts felt funny because no one was doing anything and there they were with their p

Thanks for your input, yes it's with a church, I'm sure we'd be welcome there. I like the idea of setting up at a town fair or something, but I don't know if that would give us a way to raise money as well?????

They know they salute the flag, but when else do they salute? During the National Anthem? Just during the Pledge? I thought I knew the answers, but I've been questioned, so I'd rather just ask all of you and see what you have to say on the matter. Thanks & hope you don't think I'm too clueless, Amy

Between my husband and myself, (I'm a Webelos leader, and he's just getting into committee) We've been talking about having a fair. Like face painting and any other stands we can use, we want to see if any college students would be willing to offer their services free of charge to us, but let us charge for fundraising....so if it's $2-$3 to have your face painted, 100% of it would go to the pack---- What do you think? We'd like to also make it a recruitment day because our pack is going down hill fast, we need all the FUN we can provide. As a den leader, I have 1 year left befor

jd: I agree with you 100%, it's fine if everyone is taking it all in good fun, if not, maybe talk to those who don't like it and if it upsets them that much.....find another version. FScouter: I see what you mean, but in our Pack, we don't do it as an "I don't want to hear you" type of thing, for us it's just a song that we sing when "set off" by a certian word. If we don't want them to sing it,, we don't use that word. Otherwise we make a point to be sure they notice that we've said it. We DO keep our Announcements short and sweet and let the newsletter speak for itself for the par

I'm new here and don't want to start trouble, but Ed why do you seem to be so harsh about this, she's just bringing up one thing out of several that she has to deal with. Maybe she feels good about other things, but wanted "outside" thoughts on this, some things can be "set in stone" in one Pack, but so different from another. I thought getting thoughts from others outside your Pack are Troop was why we were here. Reactions like yours make it so people like me are too shy to ask questions.....will my questions seem to silly to you?? I've been thinking of asking some questions myself, now I won

Wow, I thought what we sang was harsh, we don't mention death at all,ours has so many verses, most of the time we leave some out... Ours is Announcements, Announcements,Announcements Cause when you're up, you're up and when you're down your down and when you're only half way up, you're neither up or down (all while doing the motions, stand up, sit, then "stoop") Announcements, Announcements,Announcements (then we go on to all the junk like....) Row, Row, Row your boat gentely down the stream, ha ha fooled you, I'm a submarine Announcements, Announcements,Announc

LOL that was cute "SemperParatus" and Thank You

Well I'm new to the forum, and as for scouting my son is in 4th grade (Cub Scout Webelos level) and has been in this since he was old enough (in 1st grade). I know when he gets to Boy Scouts there will be more intense with the adventure part of it, but so far with the troop he'll be going in to, I have seen some hospital visits, but nothing too major and NOT from their mountian climbing or anything like that, but simply from kids goofing around. I'm a Mom, and a den leader, I thought I'd be "done" when he crosses over next year into the troop, but our Pack isn't doing so well, so I may f

I wish I could help but I don't know what's involved in that one, we're Webelos now. If I'm thinking of the same thing, we had an officer come in and talk to us about crime prevention, but it sounds like you need to do an actual project. Would that be like a service project?

Thanks for all the warm welcomes everyone, I think one of my next posts will be a question LOL ...but for now I'm just going to do some looking around, some questions I may have may already have been answered. This past weekend was our Blue and Gold and much to my shock I actually won the Akela of the Year.....talk about pressure...I was even told upon going up on stage that this doesn't mean I can stop trying hard now! LOL Anyway, thanks again for the welcome.....I'm off to search threads

Hi everyone! I'm new to the forum and wanted to say Hello. I am a Webelos leader and have been a leader since the end of my son's Tiger year when I joined as an assistant. I'm learning so much, but there is so much more for me to learn......I look forward to getting to know the forum and all of you! ~~Amy~~