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Parent's Meeting, Courts of Honor Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Scoutmaster Podcast 39 Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 39 First Call - U.S.
Thanks to the 90 participants who responded to the patrol system survey . I have prepared an analysis of the results that I plan on using during a university of Scouting training event. The patrol system is the essential element of Scouting.
How far back do you go? Did you have a Little Orphan Annie or Captain Midnight decoder ring? Did you marvel at Dick Tracy's two way wrist T.V.? Were you amazed by the communicator on Star Trek? How about Dr.
I've had a couple of requests over the past week for a simple way to download previous Scoutmaster Podcasts so I've set up an archive page . Other ways to keep up with the podcast: Subscribe on iTunes Follow me on Facebook Follow me on Twitter
Interview with Scoutmaster Larry Geiger Scoutmaster Podcast 38 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Music in Podcast 38 First Call - U.S.
21st Century Patrol System Scoutmaster Podcast 37 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. SMM Podcast Working the Patrol Method book Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 37 First Call - U.S.
How well are we applying the patrol system? I often ask myself this question and I am constantly looking for ways to improve the experience for our Scouts. I've set up a survey to see how the patrol system is used in other troops.
Troop Leadership and Patrol System 3, George W. Sears Scoutmaster Podcast 36 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog.
The Left Handshake, Troop Leadership and Patrol System 2, A Scout is Brave Scoutmaster Podcast 35 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog.
Kevin Callan on bear bags from the Paddler's Guide to Happy Camping Keeping your food safe from bears (and other critters) is an important element of any camping trip. Not only do you want to reduce the chance of having an unwanted close encounter with bear, raccoon or field mouse – but you also don't want…
Listener Allan Green (no relation) asks three questions when youth don’t lead: 1. Youth leaders elected, but reluctant to lead. I have had 2 successive SPL’s who would not prepare, would not work, canceled most TLC meetings, and who did not treat their fellow scouts very well.
Listener Allan Green (no relation) asks these three questions: 1. Youth leaders elected, but reluctant to lead. I have had 2 successive SPL's who would not prepare, would not work, canceled most TLC meetings, and who did not treat their fellow scouts very well.
Troop and Patrol Leadership, Email Answers, Scoutmater's Minute Scoutmaster Podcast 34 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 34 First Call - U.S.
Nine years ago as the full extent of the terrorist attacks began to unfold a group of passengers aboard a hijacked plane made a choice. By chance they were on a very ordinary flight together, by choice they became heroes and arguably averted massive loss of life had their flight gone on to reach our…
One of the more ingenious ideas in Socuting is recognition through the advancement program. Humankind has always had some way of marking achievement through decorations of one kind or another; it seems to be a fundamental impulse. Cub Scouts have no pretence when it comes to badges.
Den Cheifs, Summer Camp Story, Email Answers Scoutmaster Podcast 33 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 33 First Call - U.S.
Authors James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner have distilled thirty years of research and one million plus responses to their questions in The Truth about Leadership : You Make a Difference. Before you lead others you have to believe you will have a positive impact on others.
Troop Camping Trips, Merit Badge Counselor Quiz Scoutmaster Podcast 32 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 32 First Call - U.S.
Scouting Magazine's current question for "What Would you Do?" Our troop has many boys who have just crossed over from Webelos Scouts. Some of their parents have their eye on the Eagle Scout Award from day one; others give no thought to advancement.
A tip of the campaign hat to Seth Godin for inspiring this "decalogue" Exude enthusiasm. Scouting is different from other activities, keep it different. Understand that Scouts experience things in groups. Understand that Scouts experience things individually. Make it fun, enriching and challenging.
Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 31 First Call - U.S. Air Force Band The Happy Wanderer - Brave Combo Taps for the Fallen Brave - 101 Strings on Amazon
Troop meetings, Planning for the future 4, Scoutmaster's minute Scoutmaster Podcast 30 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog.
Earnest Thompson-Seton first published ‘The Birch Bark Roll’ in 1902. His work in establishing the pre-BSA organization, The Woodcraft Indians, was ultimately woven together with the ideas of Baden Powell and Daniel Carter Beard to form the program of the BSA.
Earnest Thompson-Seton first published 'The Birch Bark Roll' in 1902. His work in establishing the pre-BSA organization, The Woodcraft Indians, was ultimately woven together with the ideas of Baden Powell and Daniel Carter Beard to form the program of the BSA.
Troop meetings, Planning for the future, Email, Scoutmaster's Minute Scoutmaster Podcast 29 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog.
Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 28 First Call - U.S. Air Force Band The Happy Wanderer - Brave Combo Taps for the Fallen Brave - 101 Strings on Amazon
Summer Music Special Scoutmaster Podcast 27 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes First Call - U.S.
I have mentioned before that I read outdoor accident reports and studies in the interest of continuing to appreciate the importance of managing risk. Bad things happen to good people in the outdoors. Sometimes because they find them selves in extreme conditions that they could not anticipate nor control and sometimes because they failed to…
This blog post from the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of National History is a peek into their collection of Scouting artifacts. One is this tunic dated between 1911-14, just a year into the founding of the BSA. I have a similar tunic to the one pictured but mine is probably from the mid twenties.
Scouting requires that adults leading any swimming or boating activity be certified in Safe Swim Defense and/or Safety Afloat . Here's a description of the instinctive drowning response from Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning at G Captain: The Instinctive Drowning Response – so named by Francesco A.
Menu Planning, Planning for the Future 1 Scoutmaster Podcast 26 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 25 First Call - U.S.
Seth Godin writes Type 1. You can take a class where you learn technique, facts and procedures. Type 2. You can take a class where you learn to see, learn to lead and learn to solve interesting problems. The first type of teaching isn't particularly difficult to do, and it's something most of us are…
Patrol Logs, Gutzon Borglun, Troop-Based High Adventure 3 Scoutmaster Podcast 25 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 25 First Call - U.S.
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Troop Committee, Moccasin Telegraph, Troop-Based High Adventure 2 Scoutmaster Podcast 24 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 24 First Call - U.S.
Independence Day celebrates our collective and individual patriotism, freedom and potential. Robert F. Kennedy spoke of this potential in Capetown Africa in 1966: [M]any of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man.
Independence Day celebrates our collective and individual patriotism, freedom and potential. Robert F. Kennedy spoke of this potential in Capetown Africa in 1966: [M]any of the world's great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man.
Allow me a self-congratulatory moment as, with this post, the Scoutmaster Blog reaches the 1000 post mark. I started writing the blog almost five years ago (here's the first post ) as an exercise in sorting out my own thinking and in the vague hope that someone may find it useful.
From Seth Godin's blog ; A toddler wants what she wants, now . That's a win. A little later, when we're more mature, we might define winning as getting what we want at the expense of someone else. I win when you lose.
We are Scouts, we hike, camp, climb, build fires, swim, canoe, rappel, sail, ski and take on any one of a hundred challenging activities. There will be accidents, there will be injuries. I am not an alarmist, I am not worried about being sued, I am not obsessed with fear of accident or injury.
Uniform, High Adventure 1 Scoutmaster podcast 23 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 23 First Call - U.S.
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. Oliver Wendell Holmes I take Justice Holme’s thought as a simple statement of fact rather than a derisive evaluation of the vicissitudes of youth.
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. Oliver Wendell Holmes I take Justice Holme's thought as a simple statement of fact rather than a derisive evaluation of the vicissitudes of youth.
Summer Camp Scoutmaster Podcast 22 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 22 First Call - U.S.
In the Birch Bark Roll ( Link to PDF version ) first published in 1902 Earnest Thompson-Seton describes camp leadership. (Many of his ideas were adapted by Baden-Powell in his Scouting for Boys.) When two or three young people camp out, they can live as a sort of family, especially if a grown-up be with them, but…
Earnest Thompson Seton's Birch Bark Roll ( Link to PDF version ) was first published in 1902. Many of his ideas were adapted by Baden-Powell in his Scouting for Boys Here Seton outlines his idea of leadership of the camp; When two or three young people camp out, they can live as a sort of family, especially…
Recruiting, Brick Mason, Answering Email Scoutmaster Podcast 21 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog. Subscribe on iTunes Music in Podcast 21 First Call - U.S.
I have spent some memorable hours reading an advance copy of David C. Scott and Brendan Murphy's new book The Scouting Party; a thoroughly researched, unflinching account of the founding and first decade of the BSA focused on the lives of Earnest Thompson Seton, Robert Baden-Powell and Daniel Carter Beard.
Interview with author, historian and Scouter David C. Scott Scoutmaster Podcast 20 Feel free to send your questions and comments (you can rate the podcast on iTunes). Use the email link above left or the comments feature of the blog.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) was never a boy scout but no one has ever written more poignantly about boyhood. His contrarian, cross grained and curmudgeonly persona could not completely conceal his humanitarianism. Here are some of his thoughts applied to the scout law: Trustworthy “I am different from [George] Washington; I have a higher…
