Podcast Episode (00:32:18): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 229 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Working with Scouts means dealing with routine behavior problems from time to time, but… While serious misbehavior, at least in my experience, is thankfully rare – we do have to be prepared to resolve it when it occurs. In this podcast I offer my best advice to Scouters who contacted me with about resolving two incidents involving serious misbehavior....

Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Parent’s spend a lot of time preparing Scouts for summer camp, but have they prepared themselves? Do parents know what goes on at camp? This week I offer some advice directed at parents (especially of younger Scouts) that will help make the experience for them and their Scouts a positive one. There’s also a Scoutmaster’s minute o about the ninth point of the Scout law along with your messages in the mailbag....

Podcast Episode (00:28:49): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 227 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Is there a difference between leadership in the outdoors and in other settings? The answer to this question and answers to email questions in this podcast along with your messages in the mailbag. Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Podcast Episode (00:26:46): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 226 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers We are at our best as Scouters when we act as guides and use responsive leadership, it’s something we all need to work on, so this week my thoughts about three types of leaders. In answer to an email question I also offer some ideas for what Scouts ought to be doing at summer camp....

Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers What does “youth led” really mean? This week I spend some time answering two email questions that touch on youth leadership, one focuses on responsive leadership (what to do if Scouts aren’t holding up their end of the bargain) and one abut shifting a troop from adult to youth leadership. Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Podcast Episode (00:41:24): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 224 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers The Scouting program is like any good camp fire, both require the right materials and right conditions, the x factor is how much patience you have for kindling the fire. Answers to email questions on Scouts and political functions, youth protection, and how many merit badges are a large amount. Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive Podcast: Play in new window | Download...

Podcast Episode (00:26:11): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 223 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Listen to a simple, yet significant story of how Scouting works (or how it ought to work). I’ll also answer an email about backpacking, the the whole idea of backpacking is that it’s fun (challenging, yes, but fun). Go out for a mile or two, make it easy, let the Scouts decide they love it and want to go further (they almost certainly will!...

Podcast Episode (00:27:58): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 222 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers In this podcast I am joined by F. Darnell Daley Jr, Author of The Commissioner’s Corner. I am sure you’ll find Darnall’s good cheer and enthusiasm for Scouting inspirational. Here’s Darnall’s website Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Podcast Episode (00:28:17): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 221 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers In this podcast we discuss ‘real’ responsibility, answer email questions about getting folks to lend a hand with a Cub Pack and see if we can help out a new Scoutmaster. All this and your messages in the mailbag! Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Podcast Episode (00:32:48): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 220 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers In this podcast We talk about high adventure, answer email questions on a ‘one man show’ and a bullying incident, and share a great Scoutmaster’s Minute. All this and your messages in the mailbag! Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast Archive Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers Some great email questions regarding aquatics awards, finances, and working with adult volunteers along with a visit from our old friend Brick Mason! Resources mentioned in this podcast – my Scout accounts article, FISCAL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR BSA UNITS from the BSA. Podcast Archive Get The SCOUTMASTERCG APP Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Podcast Episode (00:29:46): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 218 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers In this podcast I answer email questions about medical issues and we return to the eternal question of “forming” youth leadership (“forming” – listen to find out how funny that is!) Lend a hand to answering the favorite camping and hiking spots, your one sentence Scouting definition, and help Greg with his Wood Badge Ticket....

Podcast Episode: Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 217 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers From time to time I receive email from Scouters who have some basic disagreement with the way the program is being presented in their unit. These disagreements aren’t over things that endanger Scouts, the disagreements are usually around the application of the patrol system or youth leadership. This can be very frustrating. What do you do if you find yourself in a situation like this?...

Podcast Episode (00:26:34): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 216 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers In this week’s podcast I discuss building positive peer pressure and answer email questions about direct donations to Scout Troops, immediate recognition and the Eagle Scout rank, and the appointment of youth positions of responsibility in a Scout Troop. Podcast Archive Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers We all want Scouts to reflect, and to use the product of reflection to grow and develop as useful people. Scouts are action oriented, their capacity for reflection is developing, and you have to align your expectations to their level of development. If you think about it at that age you and I learned more by a repetition of silly mistakes than by power of logic, or accepting what we were told....

Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers What advice do you have for a Webelos Den leader who just crossed over with his Webelos into a Scout Troop? In this podcast I give my best answer. Also a number of email questions concerning a lost handbook, questions about “duty to God”, faith specific prayers and reflections, working with old Scouts as a new Scoutmaster, and who ought to know medical information concerning individual Scouts....

Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers In this podcast we talk about meeting the negative attitudes and behaviors we see in Scouts with the positives of Scouting and field a question about youth leader training events. This and your messages in the mailbag. Get the song I mention in podcast 212 here All Time Favorite Boy Scout Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | RSS

Podcast Episode (00:34:33): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 212 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers In this podcast I catch up on a number of email questions that have accumulated over the past few weeks. Do Scouts need contracts? What’s the ideal Troop Size? How do we resolve problems between brothers? Can A Troop be welcoming and helpful no matter what limitations a Scout may have? Should we call Scouts ‘kids’ or ‘boys’ rather than Scouts?...

Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers This podcast features a an interview with Bess Elwell-Cook, leader of the Cambridge Garden Guides in Sydney Australia . Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, still largely, for girls and women only, evolved in 1909 from girls wishing to take part in the boy-only Scout movement. In some places, girls attempted to join Scouting and single-gender organisations were established, in other places, girls’ groups were started, some of them later to open up to boys or merge with boys’ organisations....

Podcast Episode (00:38:39): Download MP3 Listen to Scoutmaster Podcast 208 | Sponsored By ScoutmasterCG.com Backers This podcast features the second and final installment of the two-part series started in podcast 207 discussing difficult behavior in Scouts. There’s also email questions about youth leaders roles and who decided how the program will be presented. All this and your messages in the mailbag. Podcast Archive Podcast: Play in new window | Download...