walk in the woods

It makes no sense to say no regalia at Crossover/Arrow of Light ceremonies and keep it for the rest of the OA. It wouldn't surprise me to see all regalia banned before the next election cycle.

My employer in the mid to late 90s used the 7 Habits stuff, that's also when I ran into Principle Centered Leadership. It's hard for me to say if they are any good. I was young when I read them so I knew much more then than I do now. I took away some things from his books that I still try to use today.

Very carefully would be my guess......

Point of Order please, the Commodore never served on nor commanded a boat.....Please.

Mainly his later book, Principle Centered Leadership I think was the title, felt very scouty to me.

Well, it's been a few years since I walked one through the process. Beyond that, this site, https://bobwhiteblather.com/guide-to-advancement-2017/, suggests the signatures after the scout's birthday is a relatively new option. I can't really comment on what was or wasn't in conflict with the Guide. I can only say what was. The Guide to Advancement is 100 pages long and it doesn't include the Eagle workbook or application. Gak. No wonder everybody's lawyered up all the time (no offense @NJCubScouter)

Not to be overly picky, but, in my council if paperwork was submitted on the day of a scouts 18th birthday it would be a day too late.

I believe @Hawkwin was referring to parents he met at Cub Day Camp. I would suggest parents aren't going to be interested in signing up for scoutingwire, or Bryan's blog. They don't get scouting magazine. My council has a newsletter, well, no, they have a FB feed and twitter account. Plenty of parents who don't care about social media or email. For that matter they don't really care about council. I think @Hawkwin was absolutely correct in suggesting an actual letter as a good idea. Besides, council manages to send me 2 or 3 actual letters every FOS season, even after I've contributed. Seems like this wouldn't be that much more difficult......Then again, the folks I talked to at council were surprised by all the announcements as well.

Or they could set up a toll free number for concerned citizens, parents, and members to anonymously report egregious violations of the G2SS and related literature.

I reject the video game argument because it's based in victim thinking. It's the "devil made me do it" defense to attempt to avoid responsibility. Society's reflex to ban guns reinforces the avoidance of responsibility by blaming the instrument rather than the perpetrator. Both are weak tea arguments. What we're really losing with the squirt gun ban is the ability to teach boys nuance in decision making. A firearm can cause harm, so, don't point firearms at people. This rifle is a firearm, therefore, don't point it at people. Good logic. A firearm can cause harm, so, don't point firearms at people. This squirt gun is not a firearm, therefor, don't point it at people. Flawed logic. I trust boys can figure out the difference between a firearm and a squirt gun. It's not clear to me the BSA trusts boys or their adult leaders anymore.

Well, the rules say "firearm or simulated firearm." If "shape of a gun" is the basis for decision making then we'd have to unban lazer tag because those contraption don't look like guns. Regardless, a long skinny tube firing a projectile is the description of an RPG launcher.

I'd second what's been listed for clothing (Thorlo socks w/liners, low cut hiking boots and ExOfficio skivvies for me) and add some Gold Bond Powder for the places those clothes cover. I also prefer a synthetic golf shirt or vented fishing shirt to cotton t-shirts. If you have the room and you don't have to pack it too far, a 5-gallon bucket laundry station, mostly for rinsing out the sweat from those liners and skivvies, some cordage for a clothes line, and a few clothes pins.

Not if you know the secret password to the back door of the trading post!

So why wouldn't these also be considered simulated firearms and thus also banned by G2SS?

@Saltface, maybe define "dance" for us a little better. Was it akin to awkward teenagers standing along the edges of a jr. high gym wondering who to ask to dance with, or more like @thrifty describes, a bunch of guys doing line dances (not with but concurrently). A fuzzy line maybe but a line none-the-less. @qwazse, I concur. Men should learn to sing for the same reason they should learn to use axes, build fires and cook...."Chicks Dig It!" :).

Sadly, this is the BSAs problem as well, no?

Well, maybe, sort of kinda, the new normal. I won't comment on the MB practices or program areas so much, the variability of those by camp is pretty well documented/discussed. Regarding the camp-wide game my understanding is at NOAC, maybe 2 NOACs ago, there was an activity to go around to scan QR/Bar Codes from VIP badges. The Crew I used to be associated with attended a few Venturing Rally's where an evening social/dance was the norm. So maybe a glimpse of things to come.

My unit used to get gloves the local FPD was retiring that worked reasonably well.

You're not wrong at all. In fact you are absolutely correct. If the scouters took time to change for the flag retirement they could and should have deblinged. That said I thought your answer yo the scout about setting the appropriate example was spot on. We can only control our own behavior and we can only assume the others were not fully informed rather than disrespectful.

The trainers or your unit commissioner can enter the training online as well.

Like the Chicago Public Schools (http://graphics.chicagotribune.com/chicago-public-schools-sexual-abuse/index.html)? This is from the story if you scroll down: If you want to be more generous:

Related info:http://intellectualtakeout.org/article/boys-are-growing-frustrated-living-feminized-society-and-thats-showing-their-friendships and the referenced article http://chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/stevens/ct-life-stevens-sunday-boy-friendships-0520-story.html

Bunch of ideas at http://usscouts.org/bbugle/bb0610/bb_games.html. We did teeterboard once with my pack, it was a big hit. Sorry for pintrest link, but, https://www.pinterest.com/pin/99008891782094319/.

Well, I'll defer to the lawyers and English majors, but by my read the active part of the Mission statement is "by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law." That's the doing part, preparing "young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes" is the expected outcome part. If our focus is on the process, i.e. installing the values, then that can be done with the Patrol and Outdoor methods very effectively without ever having a citizenship or family life MB while still achieving the outcomes we desire. However, if our focus is on the outcome, i.e. making ethical and moral choices or hammering the values like preachers, then we get wrapped around the axle as to the best way to do that and the patrol/outdoor methods can suffer.

agreed.