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To: wita

for most of us, the troop and maybe the next level up, and our collective skills and experiences in past Scouting, ARE “the whole way of life” especially for the young kids below High School

and at these levels, we are all volunteers

No troop for your kid? Start one.

Don’t like, fit in, or agree with troop your kid is in?
Start a new one

Don’t think the troop leader is a good role model? Start another troop (that’s how my Mom got one started)

Don’t like the new badges, handbooks or other printed materials provide by national organization? Dont use them, use the old ones, earn the old badges, they are always good

Don’t like the theme antics or participants of a conference workshop jamboree or camporee? Don’t go. There are lots of choices- especially those run by volunteers

People who don’t do GS might be surprised at how traditional are the troops. The Mommies and Daddies who complain that the girls do too much crafts and feel-good badges and not enough leadership and outdoor camping have failed to step up and just start a new troop

Personally as Mom of son too, I found for years the number of women as Boy Scout leaders to be a bit discouraging

when men bailed out of being Boy Scout leaders (and dads) that was the real start of the BS downslide, imho


37 posted on 06/04/2013 9:41:26 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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To: silverleaf
People who don’t do GS might be surprised at how traditional are the troops.

I'm sure many are, but having just found out yesterday we have an "American Heritage Girls" troop in our area that's where we're headed. Regarding AHG's relationship with the Boy Scouts, AHG's National Board of Trustees issued on May 23 a "Memorandum of Mutual Support - Dissolution Statement". It was no longer possible to maintain the fraternal relationship with the BSA in light of the BSA's recent policy change.

48 posted on 06/04/2013 1:25:19 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: silverleaf

Thanks for your comments.

“Personally as Mom of son too, I found for years the number of women as Boy Scout leaders to be a bit discouraging”

This point got my attention more than the others from the standpoint of perception. Your comments generally are fairly prolific, or threads we inhabit are much the same, In other words, your screen name is familiar to me, and I had always assumed the not so obvious in regards your sex. It isn’t the first discovery of perception error, only the latest.


50 posted on 06/05/2013 5:07:58 AM PDT by wita
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