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50 entries from official and volunteer blogs posted the week of August 18th, 2014.

Learn More Efficiently by Planning to Teach What You're Studying

Isn't this what we teach our scouts?  Learn it to get to First Class, but you won't really master skills until you are able to teach it…  glad the scientific community is catching up!  :-) Learning is all about retaining knowledge so it can be...

An Hour a Week... left over after Scouting August 14th, 2014

B.P.'s Blog â€" Uniform for Scout Officals

During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I'll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you'll draw inspiration and...

Scoutmaster Clarke Green August 17th, 2014

The importance of cheerful service

Last week was a proud one for us. My son entered medical school, and on completion of his first week, a ceremony was held for the incoming class at which the new students received their white coats. It was a moving ceremony – the faculty of...

Bobwhite's Blather August 14th, 2014

What will you say…

Last night I had the pleasure as I do every Monday night of having some interesting conversations with the young men of my Troop. Â Much to their surprise or dismay, it ends up on the blog now and then. Â Last nights conversation got me to thinking...

The Scoutmaster Minute August 12th, 2014

Kandersteg Dispatches â€" Day Five

This is actually day four, a little out of sequence! We've been happily very busy, and I haven't had the time to put together more as of yet, I do have a lot of videos to show you soon! I'll be sending you dispatches from Kandersteg International...

Scoutmaster Clarke Green August 14th, 2014

Trail Journal

The shelter I stayed in last night was 1.5 miles from a scout camp. The visitor registry had dozens of entries from scouts that had hiked there over the summer for their advancement requirements. Lots of fun to see. Other than that, haven't seen...

Scoutmaster Musings August 17th, 2014

Half Hike

Scoutmaster Musings August 11th, 2014

Build it and they will come

About four years ago, our community voted on itself a tax increase to build a new library. Even though it was only twenty or so years old, the former library building was way too small. There was hardly any space to hold the burgeoning collection of...

Bobwhite's Blather August 11th, 2014

Kandersteg Dispatches â€" Day Six

Here's day five and six (sort of). We recorded this late the other night, some very tired, yet happy Scouts! I'll be sending you dispatches from Kandersteg International Scout Center August 9-18.  Get in touch with me and I'll mention you in one...

Scoutmaster Clarke Green August 16th, 2014

Kandersteg Dispatches â€" Day Four

Day Four's video will publish tomorrow! My apologies for the delay but our schedule for the next couple of days is very demanding! I'll be sending you dispatches from Kandersteg International Scout Center August 9-18.  Get in touch with me and...

Scoutmaster Clarke Green August 12th, 2014

Scouting Has Odd Laws

When you've been in Scouting for a while, it's easy to recite the Scout Law and not think twice about the way it is worded. When you examine it closer, you see that when Baden-Powell first drafted the Scout Laws he made them quite different from...

Scouting Rediscovered August 11th, 2014