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  1. Don't remember if you have a co-ed ship, but the only way the boys will stop is if enough girls tell them that Axe stinks and that girls won't get within 20 feet of a guy drenched in it.
  2. My experience has been that by the time a troop arrives at the pool/waterfront, everyone's ready for a swim regardless of whether they've already passed the swim test.
  3. We get the girls a gift that is related to their projects.
  4. Thanks for all your answers. While this summer is a wash with my husband TDY in the States for three months, perhaps next summer.
  5. I've been doing the Committee thing ever since Bears o'so many years ago. While I understand how Woodbadge helps a program leader, how does it help an MC? What in it is applicable to committee fucitons? WB here in TAC is a week long program. That in itself sounds great--a week without my kids! But, I'm not sure why I should take it.
  6. It is quite apparent that you are involved in a horrid divorce and your son has my sympathies. My advice would be to leave this to the attornies.
  7. Alright, I'll admit that I like the smell of bleach. It reminds me of my Grandma. Our pre-school in NC was required as late as 2004, to wipe down all surfaces and toys, including fabric, everyday with a 10-1 solution of water and bleach to deter the transmission of infections. Maybe we're supposed the "sanitize" the dishes due to the fact that many kids don't let the water boil long enough to kill waterborn bacteria ( a roiling boil for a minute can take forever when you're a teen) or use untreated or suspect potable water for rinse water. From the CDC (and granted most camps don't have floodwater quality potable water): http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters Food-contact surfaces that may have touched floodwater [Examples: countertops, plates] Note: Throw away wooden cutting boards, baby bottle nipples, and pacifiers 1 teaspoon / 1 gallon 1. Wash with soap and warm, clean water. 2. Rinse with clean water. 3. Sanitize using a mixture of 1 teaspoon (4.9 mL) of bleach per gallon of clean water. 4. Allow to air dry. For Handwashing after youve been cleaning up floodwater: Or you may use water that has been disinfected for personal hygiene use (solution of teaspoon [~0.75 milliliters] of household bleach per 1 gallon of water). Let it stand for 30 minutes. If the water is cloudy, use solution of teaspoon (~1.5 milliliters) of household bleach per 1 gallon of water. Just don't tell me you can properly clean a cutting board with a lemon and salt. (edited to add CDC information) (This message has been edited by Nike)
  8. Having a son who has gotten food poisoning from several Scout campouts, I'd say go with the 1 tablespoon per gallon and stir well. If the water smells overly bleachy, you've used too much.
  9. Nike

    Den Numbers

    I was wondering if ours was the only pack that did this. What happens when you have to combine dens at upper levels or if the pack splits?
  10. Just a question: Would anyone here eat a pink grasshopper pie?
  11. The more I think of it, the more I believe this whole episode could have been avoided by a good, gory food poisoning story related to unsanitary camp dishes told humourously by the adults. Talk about a tempest in a tea pot.
  12. Are you going to be able to calmly explain how the Chapter ceremony team has really disappointed a lot of young Scouts and Cubs and severely damaged their reputation? How the boys are not fulfilling their obligations? (Not the OA one, just in general.) I couldn't.
  13. 5Scoutmom, Since you can easily move to a VC, why are you hanging around the snake pit with 3 adults who are taking this way, way, way too seriously? Your loyalty is admirable, but there's only so much to which you should subject yourself and your kids.
  14. So, I'm assuming your son has not been a continual pain in the rear beyond the ability of the average 15 year old. I have one myself. 1) Your son needs to learn how to swallow his pride and apologize to the CC for the whole episode and explain that he respects the CC as an adult. I don't care about his anxiety disorder/IEP since this is a life lesson. Sometimes you say something that someone else takes offemse to and you end up eating dirt. Lesson learned is to not say or write things you don't want to be held responsible for. As for the CC, I wonder what he was doing hanging around a dishwashing station. 2) Your troop does have a code of conduct: The Scout Law. What you may be looking for is a progressive discipline policy. If there is one it's in the Troop By-Laws. 3) The ASM needs to be given a good clout on the head for announcing something he was specifically told was not happening. This is an SM issue and it sounds like the SM is going to handle it. 4) The "Advisor" is doing nothing more than stirring pot for his own ends. The triad of CC, ASM, and "Advisor" is simply disturbing in that just about all Scout discipline short of suspension or expulsion ought to be handled by the PLC with SM advice and consent. 5) The recommended perpetual probation is idiotic and gives three people not at all responsible for Program a sledge hammer to swat a gnat. This is appropriate for a boy who has committed a series of escalating offenses up to violence and theft. If the SM allows this, run don't walk to another troop. 6) As for this meeting, I, the parent, would run it like this no matter who was there: A. My son makes an apology to the CC and the SM for his behaviour, acknowledges it is unScoutlike, explains how he has been punished at home, and promises to keep his temper and opinions in check in the future. B. At this point, I would thank my son and tell him he can go wait outside, and my son would not at all remain in the room after this point. C. Then I would simply state, "We're done here. If this isn't acceptable to y'all, then SM Bob would you give us a call in about an hour after we get home?" D. If SM Bob calls me with anything other than a "Don't worry about it, your son and I will discuss this in a SM conference," or a "I think an X month probation is in order, and I'll discuss this in an SM conference. You can be there if you'd like." then we would be out of the troop. And, I'd probably warn Bob that I was writing a letter to the CO and council about three adults who can't seem to act that way.
  15. Hobbies? I don't have hobbies: I'm a mom. Actually, once the "warmest winter on record" is officially over and I no longer wake up to the sound of snow shovels, I hope we can get back on the road and start touring Europe again. That is if all these Boy and Girl Scout events ever end and my husband will just stay in the country for once. I also enjoy archery and collect sterling silver charms.
  16. You can cap the troop by limiting membership to brothers of current members, members of the CO, or WEB 2's crossing over from your feeder pack. Divide your boys into active and inactive and only count the active for the troop total. However, in this particular case, I'd say it's time to form a new troop. You have 186 BS aged boys. That's a lot for two troops to handle.
  17. Given divorce statistics: Wash, blow dry, and style 6 year old daughter's hair.
  18. I agree that the requirement should read "a geocaching website" and give some options.
  19. Normally, I would say let the boys do what they want in this regard as long as it is not against the Scout Law. The CC may think he is nipping future PR/PC problems in the bud by saying no to the name. Now... My son wants to have a Norsefire patrol. Where would y'all stand on that?
  20. There are going to be some natural lulls in night games and activities. Train the SPL and PLs to do a quick buddy check then.
  21. How should the WEBELOS program be re/structured and programmed in order to ease the transition into a Troop and strengthen the Patrol Method?
  22. Believe when I say that having 30 or 40 MCs will not translate into 30 or 40 people at every committee meeting. We have that many, and it's usually the core 8 or 10 who attend, those who would be considered sub-committee chairs. And, we meet at our regular meeting place. We just put ourselves on the schedule every year for the same day of the month every month. Makes us pretty easy to find. I would suggest moving to your meeting place just as a symbolic way to make it clear to newcomers that the group is not a social clique who happens to run the Troop Committee as well. Meeting on "neutral" ground is more business like and tends to keep meetings moving forward. The horridly uncomfortable chairs and out of whack HVAC settings help, too.
  23. A creepy little Neo-Nazi, a troublesome scout now an ASM, and a former SM who won't support the SPL. I would definitely pull up stakes and go. Go to your UC, CO, COR, and IH and tell them exactly what you've witnessed and that you want to see some significant changes in 30 days or you and your boy are gone. It's gone way beyond meddlesome parents.
  24. It all comes down to trust and letting a boy not only stretch his wings and fly but fall flat on his face as well. Parents should stand by to render first aide and advice. If you aren't buying in to that, can't buy in to it, then watching a Scout troop that fully implements the boy-led method is going to be a most excruciating experience. I recently asked a 13 year old Tenderfoot how he liked the leadership method of our troop vs. youth group or a sports team. He was ecstatic that the boys decided things and had to implement their plans. "The adults actually let you do stuff you want to do instead of telling you what they've decided you want to do." I know that our SMs/ASMs along the way didn't doubt my son's abilities nearly as much as I thought they should, since they didn't "know him like I do." And, it was all for the best. I trusted the adults, the adults trusted the boys. Everything turned out okay.
  25. And make sure that when you ask you have a specific job you want them to do. Instead of this e-mail: "We need a committee of parents to organize the Pack's annual Raingutter Regata Picnic in the Park," use "We need four parents to man the grills, two to bring the gutters (10 ft each) and saw horses over, and one person to volunteer their pickup/van to haul coolers. Reply to Susan@... if you can help." Instead of saying, "Bob, missed you at last week's Pack meeting," ask, "Bob, we're planning a pack meeting focused on bike safety. Could you bring some of your orange cones from the safety division for the event?" Volunteering for a definite job or personal request is in many ways easier to say yes to/harder to deny, than just getting a general call for volunteers. After a while people are more likely to go from worker bees to organizers just because they know what to expect and how things have been done in the past.
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