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All are of equal importance. All may not be as challenging to the individual as the one he is having trouble with at the moment. The focus will tend to be on the squeaky wheel. For example my present challenge is with cheerful I am by nature a grouchy person and I have trouble being cheerful.

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" During a pack leaders' meeting, a designated leader (such as the pack trainer) conducts a short discussion and exercise using a Unit Leadership Enhancement outline from the Cub Scout Leader Book. Pack leaders can choose from 15 topics:" http://www.scouting.org/CubScouts/Training/enhancements.aspx

Sports & Athletics without making the precamp season long requirements clear. Young scouts sign up for these thinking they are like PE in school.

The lack of training being recorded properly is an ongoing problem. The latest fix is to have a unit training person who does an annual training inventory looking at the actual training cards if necessary. This inventory is given to the district training chairman who sends it in for data entry. Over time the theory is that everyone's training records will be correctly reflected. Despite the popularity of Troopmaster most troops are not computerized and you don't need to go back very many years and councils were not computerized. The other factor that throws a wrench into proper data entry is variations of names on the hand written training attendance sheets. It is the same challenge your advancement person faces when advancement reports are not filled out with full as registered name. Your troop knows all of them and it is obvious to you that TJ is Tyler but not at all obvious to a harried data entry person at the council office. We all have a BSA number that must be entered to get credit for the online classes. Would it be a good idea to require that number on all training attendance sheets?

I'm with Jblake get den chiefs I would not stop at two I would get 4 and let the parents know that the teenage scouts will be in 100% charge of their kids unless one of them steps up. Print up what you want the den chiefs to do a week ahead of time and round robin the boys 15 min each to each den chief. Make sure at least 15 min of physical activity is included. You may very well end up with the best den ever because the boys will make sure the cubs know their skills, knots, and will stretch them on activities.

http://byerofmaine.com/amazonas-traveller.htm I submit the above for your consideration. I found the model w/o the netting on sale for less than $20 at SportsAuthority.com and got one for my son and one for me. They are very light and seem to be quite durable.

Most states have some sort of "good Samaritan" law which protects you from liability when you render first aid to the extent of your training. CPR pressure on a wound etc.. People who hold licenses as medical providers md's, rn's, lpn's, paramedics are different and can be held liable that's why they or their employer carry liability insurance. The bus driver was probably trained to follow the procedure given. I highly doubt any state has such a law on the books. I can almost hear the vicious ad campaign that would follow the next election cycle. It may have been the policy of his employer to let only the pro's handle a situation after all how far is a normal school bus off the beaten track a paramedic would normally be just a phone call away. Hopefully they issued him a cell phone to make that call or had a working radio. Take the First aid and CPR/AED classes if you can find for free jump on it American Red Cross has classes at reasonable cost. University may charge you regular tuition rates for such classes so may not be a bargain. Most community colleges would offer as well.

I'll chip in my $.02 as well. Our committee runs their meetings concurrently with our troop meetings in another room at the same facility. The SM, ASM's nor any of the youth leaders are in attendance at their meetings except when they are summoned to be there, usually to support something they are advocating the committee do. The committee runs the business of the troop. We may want to travel to the ends of the earth to attend a real cool summer camp but the committee examines our current finances and will shoot down any and all proposals that do not fit their budget. They also try and encourage long term goal setting ie. if the troop has sufficient funds raised by next year when we are considering end of the earth camp then we will consider it. Parents of all troop members are welcome to attend committee meetings especially new crossovers they are drafted for a simple task at first then progressively more challenging ones. A troop can never have enough committee members especially when trying to put together boards of review.

I do not understand why the nights could be an issue. An active on every outing and to summer camp each year scout will get 20 nights per year even allowing for the occasional cabin sleeping or missed trip. The ones who don't want to camp are in the wrong organization! That's where most if not all of the fun occurs. Even the best scout meetings are rather dull and boring mostly planning for the fun to be had on the outings.

Sports MB should also be banned from being offered by summer camps. They sucker young scouts into signing up thinking it is something like PE class in school then when they get to camp let them know about the two seasons played requirement. Rant off. A draftsman could definitely handle drafting but how about architecture, model building and designing, engineering, even home repairs, maybe even graphic arts. The wild west Indian lore, pioneering(an Eagle of your era would know the knots). Plus I am sure that you have had hobbies over the years that would fit in to other MB's. True expertise is not really needed more important is an enthusiasm for the discipline being introduced to the scout.

No specific nights of camping are required to earn Eagle except in that the Camping merit badge is required. That MB has a requirement of 20 nights of camping: "9. Show experience in camping by doing the following: a. Camp a total of at least 20 days and 20 nights. Sleep each night under the sky or in a tent you have pitched. The 20 days and 20 nights must be at a designated Scouting activity or event. You may use a week of long-term camp toward this requirement. If the camp provides a tent that has already been pitched, you need not pitch your own tent. " http://meritbadge.org/index.php?title=Camping

You get to pick what you want to do. In your place I would recommend a place on the committee to start. Go thru the online trainings. There is a large need for good committee people who take on usually one specific task such as tour permits, treasurer, secretary, fundraising, camping, gear. The extra help takes the load off the scoutmaster. If you want to do more later go for it. The other place where adults even ones that don't want to be involved even as much as comm member is as a merit badge counselor. Everyone has one or more vocations or avocations that will fit with a merit badge take a look at the full list.

The top way to recruit boys is to have your current scouts invite a friend. Number two is to actively recruit crossovers from cub scouts by providing help for the ceremonies and inviting them to meetings and outings it helps to have scouts from your troop serving as den chief's with several different packs.

Yes they are required to "Have a conference with the Scoutmaster." I think its just to make sure that they don't sneak into a meeting and then sneak out without talking to someone. Those of us in Boy Scouts need to keep in mind how overwhelming and confusing a typical troop meeting is to a WEBELOS who is used to adults keeping everything under tight control. The below link agrees with my couple of year old WEBELOS book. http://www.boyscouttrail.com/webelos/arrowoflight_requirements.asp

A month in advance that is amazing. Ours must be in the meeting before the trip. We often do not know for sure we have a camp booked for sure a month in advance a lot of parks here only accept reservations 30 days out no further this gives everyone a fair shot otherwise certain weekends would be booked years in advance. We have bylaws and the committee is currently revising them/

They are required to "Have a conference with the Scoutmaster." A board of review at this point would not be a profitable exercise the young man has had no experience in your troop just in the pack he is coming from. When we get a visiting WEBELOS the prospective scout is turned over to the ASPL for introductions on where to go etc. the parent is turned over to a committee member who gives them what they need to know from the adult angle and has the added benefit of separating boy and parent. The boy is being placed in what may be an uncomfortable situation being forced to relate to a group of total strangers. That very thing is what he is there to do and removing the easy way out of hiding with mom or dad is helpful.

Unfortunately this type of thing seems to happen quite often in the real world. I sometimes wish I lived in the ideal world they portray in the training videos. Of the 17 boys we took to summer camp last summer 6 of them will be returning to summer camp this year. A couple of others still show up sometimes. We have 12 so far committed to camp and will probably be back close to the 17 with crossovers and all. Some of this is just life in Florida several of the boys have moved with their parents and some have just lost interest due to other claims on their time. Our patrol situation never seems to be stable too much turnover for the members to really bond properly. We do our best and keep plugging them in. On the other hand our core youth leadership is very stable. We only lost one due to his family moving. We are pressed to have patrols competing as patrols at camporees especially since our JLC is its own patrol. Most camporees we attend are troop vs troop competition. Of course our district has a lot of small (less than 10 scouts) troops so at their best they are only a patrol.

24 fluid ounces of liquid (ie 2 cans of beer) is a large amount indicating that the dish is cooking by stewing as vs say steamed in beer which only requires a little. If you are wanting to alter the recipe try some fruit juice instead this will give a different flavor with some of the tenderizing properties not that stewed meat needs much tenderizing. I might want to try the dish at home on the family first say in the crock pot before embarrassing myself on a campout. When I am cooking to impress I drag the Brinkman along and do the dessert in the DO.

If Ziplock is not comfortable having their bags boiled then possibly we need to seek another bag supplier. There are many products sold in boiling bags and many more sold to put directly in the microwave. I always bought the brand name ones for this exercise but maybe I shouldn't. They are a little thicker but come to think of it all the new microwave vegies come in very thin bags. I personally don't think the hot water could significantly degrade the plastic in the limiter time the omelets are cooking. Anyone out there work for a competitor of ziplock which are made by S. C. Johnson & Son acquired from DOW maybe being a privately held family owned company they are more leery of offbeat uses of their products.

Not only did Mr. Spitzer zealously pursue persons in just his shoes but prosecuted them in court. The hard charging full speed ahead prosecutions of similar cases is what made his reputation that got him elected. It is actually good to see some mud finally stick to a highly placed hypocrite. A federal case is exactly what it is they have him on tape (wiretap) negotiating with his rented honey.

I see no harm in the scouts supporting the vanity plates. In my state the council for the county where the scouting vanity plate is issued gets a portion of the extra fees charged. I seem to recall it was about $20 per tag per year. You know how they get about popcorn and FOS. Let them mobilize the scouts for this effort as well.

That is why Sea scouts and the other venturing stuff exist is to give the older boys a new challenge of course there are pieces of even the boy scout program that are restricted to 14 and up. There brain probably does not hurt but rather shuts down when they get into a situation that is beyond them. If you have ever seen a boy or adult for that matter freeze when put up in front of a group to speak you are familiar with the condition I am referring to. Is that not what it is all about helping them to overcome the fear and do it anyway.

The natural progression is that the older scouts enjoy a progressively more difficult leadership experience on the same campout. The just crossing over scout is experiencing setting up a tent with only his roomie for help and having to do dishes for maybe the first time in his life. The little bit older scout is the patrol's cook who has enjoyed the intricacies of purchasing food and preparing something that is hopefully edible. The patrol leader is attempting to get cooperation and esprit de corps from his patrol, The quartermaster is wondering where all the gear went and the SPL is too busy attempting to herd cats to make much sense whatsoever. And then after repeating seemingly endlessly it all jells and then half the troop moves back to wherever the moved from and you start over with a whole new cast. We do do the more "exciting" type of trips but those are restricted by rank and qualifications and in some cases age as rewards to the youth leadership who keep the whole thing together.

Sorry jargon bites again Webelos adult leader outdoor orientation. Part of the required training to be an officially trained strip WEBELOS leader. along with new leader essentials, Webelos specific, youth protection, and the appropriate fast start. Is a little bit more involved than Baloo as WEBELOS are allowed to do a few things other cubs are not see the middle pages of the guide to safe scouting affectionately known as G2SS.