Three cheers for Scouts and Guides

[MrsBadenPowell]

Title says it all, really.

Oh, and three very hearty cheers from me too!

fantastic. All three of my dc are now in, so we have a cub, a beaver and a rainbow (at last... you should've seen the jealousy until she could join a month ago lol)

DD1 is 15 and is away on Guide Camp this weekend. She is strictly too old for Guides but she and her friends are hanging in there and have been allowed to stay to finish their BP award. They are hoping to start a Senior Section as there isn't one here.

i'm a cub leader and a pathfinder leader. do i get brownie points? (i was one of those as well)
under my roof i have a brownie, a beaver, a cub and a guide.
i missed the other thread, fortunately. but we do call our cub pack the 2nd (insert place name here) (adhd) pack for good reason. we're taking them skiing and snowshoeing next month.

I didn't see and don't want to see the thread that apparently has pops at those who lead/help in the Scouting movement...

But it's too easy to take a pop at these people, easy targets cos' to dedicate so much and energy to these groups - well there is an element of crazyness involved.

So huge cheer for you crazies....

Yes, but it's a harmless form of crazy (or so I hope) and ultimately beneficial to society (or so I believe)!

What depresses me about some of the Big Society threads are the expressions of disbelief that anyone would want to do any work for which they weren't being paid - I don't want to argue the pros and cons of the Big Society (and I know many people just aren't in a position to volunteer), but if the idea that only a mug would do unpaid work is as widespread as it seems to be on MN, it's another reason not to be surprised that Scouts and Guides find it hard to recruit leaders.

Madwoman - Does your unit have a particular expertise in supporting children with adhd?

and for all!

Thank you pancakeflipper!

I loved my Beavers and now I love my Cubs (is that a promotion? ).

Hours of planning, hours of hunting down materials, all the paperwork and the misery of pretending that I actually LIKE sleeping in a tent! But when I see 39 radiantly happy faces I wouldn't miss it for the world. I don't need parents to tell me that I am "wonderful to volunteer", but when they do it is the icing on the cake.

Thanks also to Mrs B-P for starting this thread. The other one was raising my blood pressure to dangerous levels ...

My pleasure.

There's a Guiders' tea room here if anyone involved in Guiding ever wants to drop in. And I dare say that in the spirit of comradeship and equal opportunities we could let Scouting types in too.

mrs b-p, no particular expertise, nor intention, really, it's just the way it worked out. so far so good though, and the outdoors and as many new experiences as possible seems to be working.

it makes life interesting when we do fire lighting and marshmallows on sticks and i handed over responsibility totally for the carpentry class....

my real passion is the girls though. such a fantastic opportunity to get them doing, and broaden their horizons.

I was a guide my brother a scout. I'm now in the process of being a Joey leader with my sons pack( beavers but we are in oz)