dan

I do believe the next time I have a question, I will PM the person, that I have a question for. But since I am already here Scouts checking each other for ticks!! Did anyone else get a mental picture of this!

WOW You guys sure make this seem hard! Within the scouter magazine is the monthly meetings all scheduled out for you, USE IT! TWEAK IT! CHANGE IT! But use it! When I was a den leader, I did not use it and I would take at least 4 hours every Saturday preparing for the meeting. I cut that down to less than an hour when I started using the programs help.

EagleKY Just giving you a little grief, all in good fun. It gets just so cold down there in Ky.

You call 40's winter camping??? We camped in that just two weeks ago. Oh Pleaz, you are in Kentucky!

How about replacing the issue and politics thread!

This post is relating to Boy Scouts not Cub Scouts. A poster (one that I usually agree with) posted that you should never have a scout tent by himself. I do not agree with this statement. If a scout that is 16 years old and set a tent up one foot away from his patrol mates. I do not see how this would validate the GTSS or the buddy system. This sounds more like a troop rule than a BSA rule. I have had this discussion with other leaders, and they could not show me anywhere where this is even suggested. Tried to do a spin off and it would not work?

That is a happy face! for a great success. Not a funny face! to make them it is just : ) without the space in the middle.

When I was a Den leaders a few years ago. After the meetings I would sit and reflex on how the meeting went and what I could have done to improve the meeting. The one thing that I thought about was that I had left a little of myself with each cub, not on purpose, but when we are working with youth it happens. I hope I gave them some of my very few good qualities. I was lucky that the parents of the cubs thought I had some good qualities, and they did not mind. This is why pack and troops need to pick leaders that can pass the good qualities onto the youth. I am not sure that a gay person would pass the qualities on to the youth that the BSA wants. I know as a parent I am not willing to let my son find out if a homosexual would pass on the correct qualities. I know someone is going to say that if you follow the program, that you would only pass on the BSA programs. I do not believe that this is true. As a leader, teacher, mentor we do pass on our qualities to the youth.

I will be going to training next weekend for National Youth Leadership Training/Wood Badge. I have staffed JLTC for the last 2 years, first year as a ASM and last year as a SM. I have asked to be a SM again this year. I think they wanted me to become a course adviser this year, but I enjoy working with the youth more than with the adults, we will see what happens. I am wondering what the new syllabus will be like and how much the youth leaders are going to be able to forget about the old course and use the new course. There is a some huge traditions the scouts have created with JLTC. Many I think are going to have to change with the new course. I hear that the BSA is really trying to get people to use NYLT instead of JLTC. An ASM from the course last year went to Philmont this summer for the new course, I hear it has been tweaked since then. But she said every time someone would say JLTC they would be reminded that it is NYLT. My only problem with this is that NYLT does not roll of the tongue like JLTC did.

I would suggest Stand by Me by Ben E. King More for the parents then the scout though.

I believe that part of the problem with troops having to ban items, is that most troop that I see "car camp". All of the scouts' gear is driven to the campsite for them. If the scouts had to carry there gear a mile of so into camp, they would rethink, what they are bringing to camp. I find myself overpacking because I know it is not a big deal if I do overpack. only water no BIG JUICE? and to think that 2cubdad said I was pinko commo! Electronic items of all sorts Watches? flashlights?

Twocubdad You must be south of that there Mason_Dixon line! Up here in the North, that stuff is unheard of!

girlie magazines swords gasoline perfume flares teddy bears mace beanie babies sweet tea lazy-boys (furniture) mini bikes go karts tricycles poker chips num chucks throwing stars Pokmon porcelain kitchen sinks (stainless is okay) plastic is allowed but than you have to go find 100' of shoreline to shore it up. sorry just my strange sense of humor. but i just could not help my self.

You cannot claim 37 1/2 cents for driving for scouts. Unless they changed it in the last year. Last year I believe it was 15 cent a mile. I have the paperwork at home that explains this. I obtained it from a roundtable.

It just makes you "look better" than them! Y'all got that right, just like my pocket protector and my scientific calculator in my other pocket makes me "look better"! And the tape on my glasses. And the buttons on my scout shirt ready to pop off at any time because of all of the cobbler I have ate!

The troop pays for ALL training. If they are willing to do this, I should be willing to make sure that no campout would be canceled because of lack of adult participating. They have shelled out around 400 dollars for my training. The troop pays for half of scout camp for any leaders going. Troop outings are paid for by the troop, unless it is a high dollar item, like skiing or climbing.

Apparently the SPL thought that the troop guide's wearing uniform socks and pants or shorts to meetings was putting pressure on the other Scouts to do the same The SM should sit down with the SPL and ask why he is not setting the example, like the troop guide is. Do the adult leaders wear the uniform? Are they setting the example? Why would the SM not expect the scout leaders to set the example also?

I think the scout should decide what merit badge he wants to take, and call the counselor, set up the meeting. Not just walk into a meeting. It does not matter if you are on a island, if you have the counselors available. You do not even want to know how I feel about Summer Camps Merit Badges!

We have a MB of the Month - it's offered at a different time/day than the weekly Troop meeting. This seems like the same as doing MB at a meeting.

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"String him up. It'll teach him a lesson." Would that lesson teach him death?!, Does not seem like much of a lesson to me.

maybe this thread needs a rule that says only people that have a handbook, preferably the latest one, and have opened it and read it can ask questions. Or maybe a disclaimer that says data maybe corrupted.

Look before you Leap. Page 213 of the current handbook, has a hiking tip form Edward Cave. Next question; how many times did dan hit the backspace key for this message?(This message has been edited by dan)