Here is a tip for keeping 90-day logs - PF, FL, PM

[WisconsinMomma]

Hey Everybody, I thought I'd share a tip that can help Scouts with the 90-day logs for Personal Fitness, Personal Management, and Family Life.

We struggled with our son on how to do the logs at first and had some failure.  My husband ended up buying a cheap monthly / weekly planner from Wal Mart that my son used to record his chores for Family Life.  This worked better for him than an online log.  The weekly calendar page spread gave him enough room to make his entries, and the book format made it easier to keep track of the actual log.  We will use this type of planner again for all the 90-day log assignments for our boys.

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[qwazse]

Hipster parents may want to consider https://fieldnotesbrand.com/.

I used one of these (tan, with graph paper) last year, and found it to be quite convenient.

Actually, there used to be a bookbinding merit badge (https://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Bookbinding), which in retrospect, would have been ideal for a scout to take before starting most any other merit badge. In fact, maybe Bookbinding MB would still be in circulation if it had a recursive requirement 4: "Use the notebook you made for requirement 2 to earn one other MB".

[oldbuzzard]

I think these requirements are about finding a system that works for a given kid. I think online or in the crappy workbook is likely to have the out of sight/out of mind problem. So for a given kid something on their phone or something on a calendar/planner may work better but that'll vary from kid to kid.

For us my son started Personal Fitness at 10.5yo and I had him come up with his own system. He just used a sheet of copy paper with divided in 2 columns with boxes for each day. It had the dates at the top, then the chart, and a small area to record results for that 2 weeks at the bottom. So for PF you had 6 sheets. His first design looked bad. So I suggested maybe he could use a ruler and after that he managed it himself. It was a simple system. The current sheet was magneted to the fridge so you had a regular daily reminder every time you got a snack. After your bi-weekly fitness test you had the natural reminder to make a new chart for the next 2 weeks. He didn't do the other requirements so he just used this for his T2F requirements but the overall system was pretty smooth.