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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 BSA. The post garnered lot’s of responses both for and against the idea of the BSA becoming a co-ed organization, and I’ll discuss some of the objections in this podcast.  […] The post Scoutmaster Podcast 354 Gender and Scouting appeared first on Scoutmastercg.com.

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 condenses into one talk the answers I wrote to several common email questions I had this summer. I want to share two key ideas I have talked about many […] The post Scoutmaster Podcast 353 Two Key Ideas for Scouters appeared first on Scoutmastercg.com.

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 edition of the podcast, lots to talk about! We had a great trip to Kandersteg International Scout Center in Switzerland, the troop had a great week at summer camp and […] The post Scoutmaster Podcast 352 Catching Up appeared first on Scoutmastercg.com.

 Some Scouting problems are just nettlesome… … they aren’t discipline problems, or particularly disruptive, just nettlesome, irritating, like stinging nettles. Everyone thinks it’s the Scoutmaster’s responsibility to fix nettlesome Scouting problems, truth is it isn’t, at least not directly. Most Scouters run into a situation like this, it bothers them, and then they create a rule […] The post Scoutmaster Podcast 351 Nettlesome Scouting Problems appeared first on Scoutmastercg.com.

 Who “owns” the pack, troop or crew? Scouting Charters are held by a chartering organization owns all of the assets of a Scout unit.  As for whether or not they will dictate how the money is spent; the chartered organization is responsible to make sure finances are administered properly. In practice most chartered organizations do […] The post Scoutmaster Podcast 350 Scouting Charters appeared first on Scoutmastercg.com.

Should we ask Scouts to sign “leadership contracts”? A couple of decades ago I tried Scout contracts, it was a mistake. I guess at the time that I would teach my Scouts a thing or two and demand that that sign a Scout contract before they took on a role of responsibility. Of course they signed […] The post Scoutmaster Podcast 349 – Scout Contracts? appeared first on Scoutmastercg.com.

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 question “who leads the Scout leaders?” Scouting is a team sport, while we all work to build consensus it’s not a democracy. It is, as BP said, “a jolly game” that depends […] The post Scoutmaster Podcast 348 – Who Leads Scout Leaders? appeared first on Scoutmastercg.com.

You’ve used an iterative process before … … whether you know it or not. Iteration means trying something out in a slightly or wholly different way if it does not succeed when first tried. I have some email questions to answer this week and one got me thinking about iteration. Scouting is an iterative process, […] The post Scoutmaster Podcast 347 – Scouting is an Iterative Process appeared first on Scoutmastercg.com.

Another visit with our favorite through hikers … … from a third of the way through their quest to complete the 2000 mile Appalachian Trail. Wade “Nutshoe” Bastain, Bucky “No Name, Buckminster” Kellorg, and their fellow Eagle Scout and hiking companion “Bear” join us from southern Virginia to relate their latest adventures along the Appalachian trail. […] The post Scoutmaster Podcast 346 – On The Appalachian Trail Again appeared first on Scoutmastercg.com.

We encourage active Scouts a number of ways … … but at the heart of the matter there’s only two things that make a difference, and  I’ll discuss those two key points in this week’s podcast. The same things that make active Scouts can help us increase activity at roundtables and other functions like courts of honor. […] The post Scoutmaster Podcast 345- Active Scouts and Scouters appeared first on Scoutmastercg.com.