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Yep. we are in a pickle aren’t we? We have very little idea of what our lives will look like this time next year. Coronavirus has shak...
Hello and Welcome Back! Just when you think everything is going well, and you pat yourself on the back for being such an effective Scouter,...
Hello and Welcome Back! Scouting is camping with your patrol, and one of my favorite ways to go camping is backpacking. Reducing everything...
Hello and Welcome Back! Scouter Training is closer to employee training than active Scouting. Sitting through scripted sessions punctuated b...
Hello and Welcome Back! If you are reading this you are a volunteer, and probably not just for Scouting. Volunteering for Scouting returns m...
Hello and Welcome Back! Engaging youth leadership and helping them develop their skills is one of the most rewarding parts of our work. Scou...
Welcome to the ScoutmasterCG newsletter; selected posts and podcasts published every other Monday about a specific aspect of Scouting. We...
Here’s my recommendations for gear gifts for Scouts or Scouters that I have owned and used, some for many years. Check out my gear gui...
These books would make excellent gifts for Scouts or Scouters. As a Scouter and outdoorsman they have been a source of inspiration, practica...
Sturdy, reliable tools make a solid camping kit and great gifts for Scouts and Scouters. There are cheaper alternatives to some of my choice...
A reader recently told me they were feeling frustrated with evaluating advancement requirements and lamented “I sometimes wish the peo...
Author and Scouter Mark Ray offers these thoughts on the the GSUSA lawsuit that’s been in the news lately; Did you roll your eyes when...
I get lots of email questions about… … troop conflicts. It may be volunteers arguing with each other, parents arguing with Scout...
Create shared expectations and you’ll have a happy troop. In this week’s podcast I answer an email question about a behavior pro...
When thinking about Eagle Scout advancement … .. we ought to ask “what is an Eagle Scout?” rather than “who deserves to be an Eagle Sc...
Webelos dens as patrols and more older Scout issues … Catching up on email questions this week I’ll talk about Webelos dens work...
Working with older Scouts between the ages of 14-18 … … is both challenging and rewarding. What interests keep them involved? Si...
Email questions! I’ll answer email questions concerning patrols and planning in this week’s podcast. I think what most of us wan...
Scouting discipline is constructive… … because it builds character through applying the Scout oath and law. When we think of dis...
Why is Scouting designed around youth leadership? Most Scouters think a youth led troop is the brass ring of Scouting. What exactly do we me...
How does Scout advancement achieve the main aim of Scouting? Todays talk about advancement continues our foundations series. I’ve writ...
What’s the difference between Patrol system and Patrol method? I have never found any actual difference between those terms in Scoutin...
Some aspects of the Scouting game look like flaws… … but they are features we must not alter. Games restrict or constrain play t...
Thinking of Scouts as players … … fills out the analogy of Scouting as a game. Players volunteer to participate in the game. The...
Thinking of Scouters as coaches … … can help us understand our role in the game. These are just analogies – we aren’...
We’ve heard this before, right? Baden-Powell employed the “Scouting is a game” analogy long before anyone else, and it is...
Thank you for being a Scouter! Today I have a short story to share (with apologies to Clement Clarke Moore) I first read on Podcast 248 to w...
No matter how we hard tried our Scout Troop planning seemed to be losing the battle for for space on crowded family calendars. Participation...
Imagine two Scout troops, troop A and troop B. Both troops have “average” Scouts (whatever that means) who do what average Scouts do. Both h...
Scout advancement is not adults judging Scouts… … it’s Scouts meeting requirements with the support of adult volunteers – in Sco...
Kevin Callan is here, it’s time to go winter camping! Canada’s Happy Camper, our friend Kevin Callan, author of the new Complete Guide...
Here’s some advice from Wade Bastian on the Appalachian trail gear he carried on his hike. Wade set out on the 2200 mile trail with fe...
Expertise and experience are overrated Scouts need Scouters with energy and vision more than Scouters with expertise and experience. Scouts...
These Appalachian Trail Lessons come from Wade Bastian, one of two of my old Scouts hiking the 2200 mile trail. Wade and fellow Eagle Scout...
What do I do now? A Scout misbehaves, makes a mistake, or even consciously does something wrong, and things spin out of control, now what? I...
I did not start out as a believer in co-ed Scouting. For most of the last 35 years I’ve been a volunteer with the Boy Scouts of Americ...
Can you define Scout leadership without using the words “lead”, “leader”, or “leadership”? The Scout oat...
Today the BSA announced Family Scouting starting next fall with girls in Cub Scouting, and “a program for older girls, which will be a...
Should gender define Scouting? This week I want to discuss responses to a post I published last week about gender in Scouting: Girls in the...
Yes, girls in the BSA. I want the BSA to be a fully co-ed organization with no limitations on how girls participate. Before you lose it unde...
I’ll be brief, well, kind of… … join me as I talk about two key ideas for Scouters I hope you find helpful . This podcast...
Hey! I’m still here, are you? My summer break stretched into the fall a little! Spend some time catching up with me in this briefer ed...
A virtual question and answer session with Green Bar Bill about the patrol method from the December 1943 Edition of Scouting magazine. If yo...
Some Scouting problems are just nettlesome… … they aren’t discipline problems, or particularly disruptive, just nettlesome...
Who “owns” the pack, troop or crew? Scouting Charters are held by a chartering organization owns all of the assets of a Scout un...
Should we ask Scouts to sign “leadership contracts”? A couple of decades ago I tried Scout contracts, it was a mistake. I guess...
If the Scouts are leading themselves who is leading the Scout leaders? This week I’ll field a couple of email questions that ask the q...
You’ve used an iterative process before … … whether you know it or not. Iteration means trying something out in a slightly...
Another visit with our favorite through hikers … … from a third of the way through their quest to complete the 2000 mile Appalac...
We encourage active Scouts a number of ways … … but at the heart of the matter there’s only two things that make a differe...