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Whether or not you-re dad of the year or you spend every weekend holed up with your Direct TV Sunday Ticket odds are you could be doing more to get involved with your son-s scout troop. Here are a few easy ways to score some dad points while bonding with your son
Lead a Camping Trip: What young boy doesn-t love camping? Volunteer to lead or organize a troop camping trip where your son and a few of his Continue Reading »

There are so many things that young boys learn in boy scouts. They learn about tying knots, camping, building fires, and other things that boys really enjoy doing. They will remember these things for the rest of their lives, but the most important traditions they will learn in boy scouts are building friendships, respect, and responsibility.

Many of their best friends are going to be in their scout troops. They will learn a lot together and do a lot of fun things together. They will grow up together as friends, and those are strong bonds.

They will learn respect. They Continue Reading »

Boy Scouts offers many opportunities for boys to explore new interests while building maturity and self- confidence. Developed to provide outdoor experiences for boys, the program has grown to be a valuable character building activity for millions of boys over the years.

The Boy Scout program is probably best known for providing outdoor activities for its members. Scouts may learn camping, backpacking, fishing and even gun safety. Respect for the environment is also stressed, as scouts are Continue Reading »

The Boys Scouts will most definitely teach your son survival skills. The organization takes great pride in teaching adolescent and teenage boys to be prepared in case of any emergency. They teach our young men not only to survive, but to help others in need. After all “being prepared” is the Boy Scout motto.

Your son will learn skills that will help to prepare him for nearly any disaster. They utilize camp outs to teach them things like finding food and water, building shelter, signaling for help, basic first aid, Continue Reading »

The Boy Scouts were founded in 1910 and is one of several youth organizations that works with boys from the age of ten and a half years old to eighteen years of age, then with young men from the age of eighteen to twenty-one in what may be considered as an advance group of Boy Scouts.

Their main focus is on teaching young boys and young men such values as being trustworthy, good citizens, skills that can be used outdoors and leadership.

By learning the different skills required to be a Boy Scout and advancing Continue Reading »

Children today need to be brought up to be respectful and to cooperate with each other. A good place for boys to learn these values is through boy scouts. Boys can join scouts as young as five years old; though they are not considered a true boy scout until they reach the age of eight. Boy scouts teach children to respect themselves, their family and friends and nature. Meetings begin with a pledge to the American flag, instilling pride in their country. There Continue Reading »

The various youth organizations of the world serve a common purpose. These organizations teach children how to work hard, develop morality concepts, experiment, and become independent. The boy scouts are such an organization. In the Boy Scouts young boys learn how to perform many tasks that can vary from life saving skills to survival in the wilds. They learn to start fires, perform first aid, CPR, and self-reliance based skills such as tracking. They also learn to develop knowledge of poisonous plants and animals. There is a myriad number of educational fields that the Boy Scouts utilize in their Continue Reading »