We can teach principles of leadership, but we don't learn leadership unless we live it. Leadership is more effectively taught with a hands-on application. It cannot come out of a book, but must be...
Category: Scouting and Youth Groups
Boy Scouts are like teabags. You don't know how strong they are until they get in hot water. Our monthly Boys Life Magazines feature stories of brother Scouts being first on the scene at serious...
Hold up a hand ax in your right hand and ask the Scouts what it is. You'll get several replies. The desired answer is that it is a tool that we can use both in and out of Scouting. Ask them what it...
One afternoon while working around his yard a man spotted a cocoon. He looked closer a noticed that something was struggling to get through a very small hole in the cocoon. He stood a watched...
A couple of things in the news recently made me think of "self-ish" versus "self-less" acts. First, there was the letter to the editor in our local paper, entitled "MOM THANKS DAUGHTER". The letter...
Next fall, when you see geese heading South for the winter, flying along in V-formation, you might consider what science has discovered as to why they fly that way: As each bird flaps its wings, it...