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You may have more in common with Kazik than you first suspect! This podcast is one story that I think you'll find inspiring and significant; a story of Scout spirit against seemingly insurmountable odds. Links in this podcast Kommander's Car by Katy Car Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

We prepare our Scouts, but how about their parents? How can we help parents make it though the first week of summer camp? Entrusting the full-time care of your child to someone for such a long time, for the first time, can be challenging for parents. In this podcast I offer some ideas you can share with parents tp make their child's stay at summer camp easier on the folks at home.  I'll also have answers to email questions about patrol method safety, merit badge counselling, and adult supervision of patrol activities. Links in this podcast Summer Camp resources Guide to Safe Scouting  Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

What do the resources say? Who signs rank requirements? It's up to the unit leader to select and train those who approve advancement, that's the short answer! Listen for the longer answer and answers to email questions about troop meetings, terms for positions of responsibility, alcohol stoves, and backpack weight. Links in this podcast Going Camping Go Light! (more Horace Kephardt quotes) Guide to Advancement 2015  4.2.1.2 Scoutmaster Handbook on signing requirements Guide to Safe Scouting on Alcohol Stoves Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

It's catch-up time! In this week's podcast I'll catch up on email questions concerning approving requirements, relationships between Cub Packs and Troops, moving to a new Troop, unit policy manuals, how Scouts address Scouters, and determining what activities best achieve the aims of Scouting. Links in this podcast The Big Three Resources every Scouter should read Music Chirstine Lavin - Camping Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

Where is it? What is it? In this week's podcast I'll complete our series on the search for the Scouting "source code", we'll find out where it is, who created it, and why. Links in this podcast My.Scouting.Org PDF by Martin Ohrenberg A Troop Revolution Why do Scouts go Camping? Page 9 - The promises of Scouting The Big Three Resources every Scouter should read Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

When a Scout takes on a position of responsibility... ... we'll discuss and agree on a set of shared expectations, and begin what will be an open dialog for their tenure in that position. Reconciling what a Scout did or did not do before a Scoutmaster took on the role is one of the things we'll discuss in this podcast. We'll also answer a question about Scoutmaster conferences. What high adventure experience will your Scouts be doing this summer? Time to start planning! How about next summer? It's never too early to get the ball rolling! Check out information about Kandersteg 2016 Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

What do you think? In this week's podcast I'll answer email questions about anxious Scouts, liability insurance, cell phones and whether we should be using merit badge books or unofficial work sheets and workbooks. The Big Three Resources every Scouter should read BSA statement on liability insurance Article on merit badge workbooks and worksheets. Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

Once you become a Scouter, what's next? What five things can you do to make the best of your opportunity as a Scouter? Whether you are just starting out, or have been around for awhile, let's get the new year off on the right foot by thinking about making the best of our opportunities! This podcast also features answers to email questions about the difference between Venturing and other age divisions, addressing parent's concerns about supervision on camping trips, and youth leader development. Music on this week's podcast Truckers Hitch by Ylvis Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

This questions starts some pretty dramatic conversations! In this week's podcast I'll explain my answer to the question 'What is an Eagle Scout?' in Scoutmastership in Seven Minutes or Less and answer two email questions about Eagle Scout advancement. Music on this week's podcast Born to Be a Scout Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

So Far,  So Good! Lot's of catching up to do! It's nice to be back after a two week hiatus! In this podcast I'll tell you about my new book, So Far, So Good! and answer email questions about how to keep a vision for all age divisions of Scouting, the program changes coming this year, sorting out how to bring older Scouts and younger Scouts together, and how to keep up with an ambitious senior patrol leader, and a great way for setting up patrols. Music on this week's podcast Scout Boy A New Scoutmaster (chapter one) Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive

Next week is Christmas and the following is new year’s, so for the next two weeks the podcast will be on vacation right along with you as you enjoy the holidays with your friends and family . I’ll return on January 5th with Podcast number 249. You can listen to our archived podcasts here Music on this week's podcast by the Pine Street String Band Banjo Christmas A New Scoutmaster (chapter one) Gift Lists Tools, Handiwork, Gear, Books Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers  Join me in Kandersteg next summer! Details Here. Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

What's the difference between demanding compliance and getting voluntary obedience? The answer may have a lot to do with the tone of your voice (literally and figuratively). In this podcast I answer emails about an particular Eagle Scout Board of Review, where it looks like the Eagle Scout candidate may be being set up for an ambush. I also answer questions about Scouts volunteering to raise funds for other organizations, and a couple of questions about newsletters and backpacking. From the intro: Itchycoo Park A New Scoutmaster (chapter one) Gift Lists Tools, Handiwork, Gear, Books Doug Boyce's  blog and podcast:  Brite Idea Scouting BPSA (Baden Powell Service Organization) Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers  Join me in Kandersteg next summer! Details Here. Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

Another agonized alliteration! In this podcast I answer emails about merit badge classes, patrols cooking their own chow, a Scoutmaster worried about Scouts who change troops, Scouting's chimeras (or urban legends), and a little troop leadership election chicanery. Here's the first chapter of the narrative: A New Scoutmaster. Here's the Three Secret Weapons I mentioned Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers  Join me in Kandersteg next summer! Details Here. Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive

When the Emperor has no new clothes... it's sort of embarrassing for everyone isn't it? Listen to my response to those (thankfully few) troops who decide to create their own requirements. Adding to the requirements is as misguided as subtracting from them, and sends a mixed message to the youth we serve.  In the email segment of this podcast we answer questions about whether a Scoutmaster should step down if his son becomes the senior patrol leader, Scouting urban legends, resolving conflicts with parents, how much the Scoutmaster is involved in Eagle paperwork, disciplining Scouts, and more on the mechanics of patrol formation, Here's the first chapter of the narrative I mentioned: A New Scoutmaster. Here's the post on Scouting and Money. Check out Frank Maynard's Blog Bobwhite Blather. Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers like Tom Curley!  Join me in Kandersteg next summer! Details Here. Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive  

Listen to your Scouts... and you'll hear lots of answers! I discuss listening in this week's "Scoutmaster in Seven Minutes or Less". In the email segment of this podcast we answer questions about activities that fulfill more than one requirement, how adults can train youth leaders to provide a good, quality program without taking it over themselves, unit leadership elections, the formation of high adventure patrols, and finding a position of responsibility for a Scout who wasn't elected to one. Here's the first chapter of the narrative I mentioned: A New Scoutmaster. Listen to the Salzburger Echo's version of The Happy Wanderer (more cow bell!), get your own copy of Happy Wanderer   Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers like Tom Curley!  Join me in Kandersteg next summer! Details Here. Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive