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| RED SOX NATION!! Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Connecticut
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| Great update Christie!! Now I don't have to read the handbook
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| We went to DJ's first Tiger Cub meeting last night. Actually, it was an informational/registration type meeting like yours to figure out which troop to join. Easy-peasy because every troop (6 in our area) are within 5 - 10 minutes of our house and many of the troop leaders lead more than one troop. Grammy, who lives very close to the Monroe County Boy Scout supply store, offered to pick up DJ's uniform essentials today. DJ's troop offers the boys the chance to earn their Tiger Cub neckerchief, so they suggested DJ just get the hat, shirt, and the troop and council patches for now. Avoids a huge initial investment until your son is certain Cub Scouting is for him. There's a purple fleur de lis patch, too. I'm not sure what that one is. Oh, and we left the meeting with popcorn fundraiser forms et al. They're wasting no time.
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| Destiny Found ... in 2010 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mississippi
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| First off, I wanted to say THANK YOU to all of you for your interest in this thread, that will make it much more fun to share throughout the year. Feel free to jump in with your son's experiences, too. It will be fun to swap stories. Monday, September 8 This is our regular meeting day, but there's no meeting tonight for the boys, just for the leaders to get the calendar set up. So instead, I read the introductory section of the handbook to Joshua (2-3 pages in large bold print, not too much ). He had asked about scouts in the car earlier, so I told him we would look at his book together.After reading the intro, I showed him the different awards and badges he would be able to earn over the course of the next year. He seemed pretty excited, but at this point I did not go into any detail about them. While I enjoy seeing the big picture I know it will be way too overwhelming for him. I also realized that the two district campouts taking place this fall are on Saturday night and Sunday morning. (I had originally thought it was Fri-Sat.) That means Jay can go with us, and I don't have to do it by myself!!! One is coming up pretty soon so we will need to register for that pretty quickly. Oh, and let's not forget the exciting part of the day earlier ... I washed Joshua's uniform shirt and neckerchief! Didn't want him to go to his first meeting with creases from being in the packaging!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, September 9 Well, who needs sleep when you can make a master plan for something? I sat up way too late tonight making one list of everything in the handbook. Why, you ask? Because I am crazy, of course! I had noticed that a few of the requirements/electives had notes, stating that if the whole den did an activity all the boys could count it for credit. And other little tips like that. So I just decided it would work better for me if I wrote all that stuff down now so I wouldn't forget about it later. Also, since some of the things we like to do anyway can also earn Joshua credit in scouts, it will help me remember to keep up with those activities as we do them throughout the year. It's easier for me to have it all on one (albeit lengthy) list, than trying to remember which page of the handbook I saw it on.But I need to check out the website again, because there is an award mentioned on there that is not in the handbook. The Emergency Preparedness Award. Perhaps it is a new award, and since the handbook we have is the 2007 printing, it came out after the book was printed. I remembered reading that this award has requirements for all level of scouts, even Tiger Cubs. I'll have to add it to the end of my master list. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wednesday, September 10 I had intended to purchase coordinating thread at Wal-Mart this morning, to sew on Joshua's patches before his first meeting Monday. But our store no longer sells thread, in addition to no fabric. Although they do still have sewing machines. Hmmm. I had considered driving over to Jackson to get the thread but didn't really feel like going that far since I'd have to gas up first. Anyway, then I logged in here and read the wonderful suggestion of using clear thread for all the patches. That's a great idea, especially since I don't sew. That way I don't end up with several spools of thread over the next few years and nothing to use it on. I'll have to look for that this weekend. Michael's perhaps?
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| Destiny Found ... in 2010 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mississippi
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| Wednesday, September 10 More research online turned up these tidbits: God and Me requirements - looks like the award is only earned once for each age group. In other words, all 1-3 graders do the same work. Since this is the case we will wait another year or two to work on this one. This is the website for the people who oversee the award: God and Me Description Found this website in the wiki format which was very helpful: Main Page - MeritBadgeDotOrg I like that it takes you all the way from Tigers to Eagles. I also like that it tells you which requirements can also be counted towards earning other awards. That was what I was going for with my own master list. And, from that website, I realized my mistake on the tiger track beads. From the pictures drawn in the handbook, I thought they were spiral-shaped beads, and had wondered how in the world they were going to be attached to the cords. Well, actually they are flat disks
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| Would some light-weight fishing line do the trick? I hope you don't have to go all the way to Jackson! Yikes!
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| More great updates!!
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| Thursday, September 11, 2008 Well, not much to report from the last couple of days. Basically, I am just ready for the first meeting to be here! I guess we could go ahead and work on learning the Bobcat requirements, but if I understand correctly that is something the pack works on together in the beginning, so I will wait and see what we are told. I was getting overwhelmed looking at all the options for the Academics and Sports awards, so I spent some time today trying to narrow down our choices. I read online the requirements for each, and noticed that some of the requirements may be met by working on the achievements and electives in the handbook. Which means, let the same project/activity count for two different things, so a little less work. But not all the subject areas had that option for the Tiger Cub requirements and electives. So that is how I narrowed down my list. I wrote down the subjects that had some shared work with Tigers, and that's what we'll focus on for this first year. Since he's doing the requirements anyway, we might as well let them count toward another award. Jay agreed to go ahead and sign us up for the first District overnight event which is the first weekend in October. It is called Cub Annapolis. You build a racecar that the cub wears (think Halloween costume of sorts) out of a cardboard box. Then the scouts participate in a fun race. There is also a dessert competition. I figured we better go ahead and turn in the registration at the first meeting next week since it is coming up so soon.
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| Destiny Found ... in 2010 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mississippi
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| Friday, September 12 Mentioned to my friend Rebekah at work today that I was going to be looking for some clear thread for sewing the patches. I asked her (since she cross-stitches, which is way more sewing than I do ) where she thought I could find some, and if she was even familiar with it. She said yes, there is something called invisible thread that she has heard of before.Friday night I'm working Parents Night Out at church, Rebekah had dropped off her kids so she and her husband could get out for the evening. When she came back to pick them up, she told me she found the clear thread at Hobby Lobby and got some for me!
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| I was thinking of you last night Christie as I was sewing on the badges to Colin's shirt!!
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| Well, first, Congratulations to both of you for joining Scouts!!!! DH was a Cub Scout and then Boy Scout here in Kingston as a kid and of course, wanted our boys to join. I, on the other hand, wanted NOTHING to do with (Scouts was not big at all in my city). Anyways, Josh (now almost 15) started as a Tiger and earned Bear, Wolf and Webelos rank and his Arrow of Light and crossed-over to Boy Scouts and made it to his Second Class rank, but decided it just wasn't what he wanted to do anymore. As a Boy Scout LOVED the camping! Jeffrey (almost 12) also started as a Tiger (I was the den leader) also earned Bear, Wolf, Webelos rank and his Arrow of Light and crossed-over to Boy Scouts this past February, has earned his Tenderfoot rank and will earn Second Class within the next two months. Bobcat is not a rank - it is a requirement of ALL Scouts, regardless of when they join the program. And a "Pack" is Cub Scouts, while a "Troop" is Boy Scouts. As far as the Sports/Academics program - my suggestion is to be careful on what you earn and when. Many beltloops correspond with the requirements of other ranks, especially in the Webelos year (in our Pack, the Scout would be required to do the requirements if that was one they wanted to complete but did not earn a second beltloop). And, some of the other awards you mentioned, sometimes also go along with another rank/program better. Like, the Whittlin' Chip - some of the Bear requirements go along very nicely with those requirements. It's always a personal choice, but I found we were repeating some things and the boys noticed! Scouting is a great program. Like I said, DH wanted the boys to get involved, and I ended up getting invovled (I was the Pack Secretary for 6 years, I did the monthly newsletter, I was Jeffrey's den/webelos leader, and I organized the Summertime Activities). I was also fortunate to make some great friends. Have fun with it - don't stress about it but do have a plan! If I can help out with anything, PM me if you'd like! Enjoy it! YIS ps - DDJamie is also in Girl Scouts, a Junior this year, and I am involved with some of the same Moms/friends and volunteered to the the Troop's Treasurer and will do the cookies! And, I help out on the Troop level with fundraising and in general.
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| Destiny Found ... in 2010 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Mississippi
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| Thanks Joanne! I've found a couple of forum sites that I read a little bit on over the weekend, in particular about the belt loops and pins. I agreed with what one person posted - earning the belt loop and/or pin as a T/W/B Cub and then again as a Webelos was basically two different things because the Webelos had developed so many more skills and knowledge, etc. than what he had possessed as a younger Cub. So there may be some that we end up repeating, especially those we might do this year and as a Wolf. But during his Bear year I will be paying more attention (looking ahead to Webelos years) so that he doesn't end up repeating the same requirements two years in a row. Tonight's our first meeting, really looking forward to it! Sounds like you've had quite the journey yourself. Thanks for the encouragement!
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