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Enoch is an active 17-year-old Scout and blogger at Scouting Rediscovered I asked Enoch to write about his experiences with adult volunteers in Scouting: When I first joined my Troop, I really didn't know what to
IN THIS PODCAST What a new Scoutmaster Needs Resources Scoutmaster's Bookshelf KEEP IN TOUCH Contact Clarke Green Call and leave a voice mail comment or question at (484) 734-0002 Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Listen on
Willy Volk succinctly describes how he applies his experience in the Peace Corps to his work. I have known several Scouts (all Eagles) who went on to serve in the Peace Corps and gained a great deal from it.
At some point you'll be trained, you'll have studied the resources and be reasonably confident that some changes need to be made. These may just be changes of style or they may be fairly systemic. Bear in mind that all
A new Scoutmaster needs to be trained but that training needs to be supplemented by your own reading and study. Most of the time when Scouting goes awry it's because adults are ignorant of the program. You'll
You have been asked to take on one of the greatest, most challenging roles in Scouting; you are a new Scoutmaster. What next? Get trained! Here's the steps; Be prepared for training by being teachable. A new
IN THIS PODCAST High Adventure Trips KEEP IN TOUCH Contact Clarke Green Call and leave a voice mail comment or question at (484) 734-0002 Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Listen on your mobile device with Stitcher
Informative article from Tim MacWelch at Outdoor Life Survival on how to find and use fungi fire starter: If you have birch or black Locust trees growing near you, then you probably have some very
An article from Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Journal examines the retention of skills for those trained in wilderness first aid and concludes: Without additional training, regular use of the course content, or efforts to refresh
Zero Bars Life lived simple Dreamy and warranted Jealous of people who blog about their one hundred things But wondering how we might live without 60 second coffee brewed on a Jetboil And still remain
We hesitate. We stall or try for perfect or have meetings or polish or avoid the final ‘go' because we're afraid that it might not work, that the art won't be well received, that people
I have a calendar that running in my head, geared to the school year calendar that I can't seem to get rid of. Decades of programming for young people will do that to you. Last
IN THIS PODCAST First Scoutmaster Panel Discussion rebroadcast – Email Questions KEEP IN TOUCH Contact Clarke Green Call and leave a voice mail comment or question at (484) 734-0002 Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Listen on
Certainly one of the tasks of parenthood is challenging our children to realize their full potential yet we shouldn't judge our children, nor or Scouts by comparing their achievements with those of others. We are individuals, we have their own strengths
‘Aim' is a particularly well chosen word to describe our focus as adult volunteers in Scouting. Scouting has three specific objectives, commonly referred to as the "Aims of Scouting." They are character development, citizenship training, and personal
Author Mike Malone's history of the Eagle Scout Four Percent: The Story of Uncommon Youth in a Century of American Life is now available in a Kindle Edition on Amazon. You don't have to have a Kindle
One of the more common emails I receive concerns the frustrations of Scoutmaster's who are faced with a boy they just don't consider has done enough, cares enough or is good enough to become an Eagle Scout. They
Several books authored by W. Ben Hunt (Walter Bernard Hunt) grace my bookshelves. Each one offers a rich journey into Native American arts and performance, woodworking, whittling, scoutcraft, pioneering, jewelry making, metalworking and calligraphy. Native of Greenfield
IN THIS PODCAST The Scoutmaster and Senior Patrol Leader KEEP IN TOUCH Contact Clarke Green Call and leave a voice mail comment or question at (484) 734-0002 Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Listen on your mobile device with
A few years back I built a sailors ditty box from plans found in Hervey Garrett Smith's The Marlinspike Sailor. I finished it with milk paint and even went to the trouble of copying the beckets (handles)
Somewhere along the way (eBay I think) I got a good solid old-school pack basket. It's perfect for packing a pretty big pile of camping miscellany that comes in handy. Visible on top of the basket is
(1) My lumbar pack is a Mountainsmith Day Recycled-Fabric Lumbar Pack (my review here). I use this bag all the time and it has become my "man bag" or "murse". (2) I have a large Kwiki
Scouts who have earned Eagle during my tenure as Scoutmaster receive a custom engraved Buck knife. I take the knife to an engraver in our mall called "Things Remembered". I buy the Buck 110 lock-back because the bolsters are flat
IN THIS PODCAST Email question – the patrol leader's council LINKS IN THIS PODCAST Troop Program Features Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 Troop program Resources KEEP IN TOUCH Contact Clarke Green Call and leave a voice mail comment
John Thurman was a prolific writer and Camp Chief of Gilwell Park from 1943 to 1969. I have taken some of his thoughts on the patrol leaders council (called the Court of Honor in the UK at the time)
How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning. D. H. Lawrence
Friend of the blog and podcast Mike Malone has announced the pending release of his new book Four Percent – The Story of Uncommon Youth in a Century of American Life; an excellent, authoritative Eagle Scout history. Mike is
Excerpts from Newark, New Jersey's Mayor Cory Booker's commencement address at Stanford University: My dad would touch me almost like he was trying to feel my very spirit. He would look at me and he would say
IN THIS PODCAST Troop Meetings Email Question – Too Strict? KEEP IN TOUCH Contact Clarke Green Call and leave a voice mail comment or question at (484) 734-0002 Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes Listen on your
Keep cool by drinking hot drinks? "Trust me," she said. "I'm Indian, I'm British. A billion Indians can't be wrong. They drink hot tea in hot weather." "The hot drink somehow has an effect on
Advice on what to do when lost in the woods was created in 1947 by the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. ( It is part of the Oregon State University Archives). The advice still rings
As an adult volunteer in Scouting how would you react if you were made aware of suspected abuse? As the Penn State investigations proceed they reveal more about how the administration of the school handled
There's a danger inherent in going too far with the whole ‘kids these days' thing. Each successive generation is pretty sure the next one is headed to hell in a hand basket. Your great-great grandparents were convinced that your great grandparents
IN THIS PODCAST Scoutmaster Panel Discussion – Emergency Preparedness LINKS IN THIS PODCAST Boy Scouts of America Emergency Preparedness Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Catalog of Youth Disaster Preparedness Education Resources Lifesaving and Meritorious Action Awards
It's hot – this video is cool literally and figuratively!
Google the title of this post and you'll find some pretty elaborate plans and opinions for Eagle Scoutmaster conferences. Some of them leave me thinking I should don a wizard's robes and start boiling up some eye of newt
We camp in the kingdom of the timber rattler and the copperhead so I keep up on current best first aid practices for treating venomous snake bites in the field. Dr. Paul Auerbach, author of Medicine for
On Independence Day we celebrate the founding of our nation - We celebrate the trust our nation's first leaders invested in one another. We celebrate loyalty mutually pledged: our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
Your Scout comes home from summer camp more capable and mature than the boy you waved goodbye to a short week ago. Outside of the normal support structure of his family, away from the solitary distractions of
IN THIS PODCAST Interview with author of Free Range Kids and ‘World's Worst Mom' Lenore Skenazy. LINKS IN THIS PODCAST Shout Out! Free Range Kids Blog Buy Free Range Kids on Amazon My review of Free
In recent years parents seem increasingly reluctant to allow their children to do things for themselves – to be ‘free range kids'. It makes me wonder if some parents have written activities like Scouting off
A dog in the manger guards the manger (where hay is put for animals to eat) not because he wanted to eat the hay but to prevent the other animals from doing so. In the
How do we attract and maintain volunteers? What are the benefits of volunteering? Who volunteers and why, what they need what they want from volunteering? Here's ten facts about volunteering and volunteers that should help you
No matter what community volunteer effort or organization, whether local, national or worldwide in scope, there's a fairly immutable rule of the way people will perceive your efforts: 25% of people will actively support the effort by volunteering, contributing
Can a volunteer be too involved in their work? Yes. Need is constant and concerned human beings want to fill the need. They can't. Most volunteers will not encounter a situation that demands truly heroic
IN THIS PODCAST Discipline and accountability in Scouting LINKS IN THIS PODCAST Shout Out! Guide to Safe Scouting KEEP IN TOUCH Contact Clarke Green Call and leave a voice mail comment or question at (484) 734-0002
Scoutmasters — wouldn't you enjoin on your boys that as Scouts they are expected to differ from ordinary boys by carrying out this simple Irish camping motto: On breaking up camp leave two things behind you
Photograph by: Marice Cohn Band, Miami Herald , timescolonist.com (June 2012) A great article from Canada's Cindy MacDougal: Parents in my generation often treat our children as if they are too easily broken to be
In 30 plus years of Scouting this past Saturday was particularly meaningful. My wife and I were invited to the wedding of one of the men she calls ‘our boys'. Andy worked with me on
Via Facebook Tracey Lucas asks: We've helped our Elks with an annual Flag Day Ceremony and Flag Retirement Ceremony for many years. Some years we have over 400 flags that have been collected during the
