BALOO'S BUGLE June Cub Scout Roundtable Space the New Frontier Volume 6 Issue 10 Webelos Naturalist & Forester USTED!!! Yes, I went and did it. I made some and no changes can be made. NOW FOR A HUGE glaring errors, more than usual, in the last issue of FAVOR! Concentrate on the content of their pages, and B Baloo's Bugle. One that was noted early after we forgive a misspelled word. These fine young scouts have loaded it to our site in HTML is that I decided to done a lot of work setting up this page, which in turn, is a put in something else under Audience Participation in the wonderful resource for this activity badge. Also there is an HTML format. At this point I can't remember exactly was area about growing crystals!!! there, but Audience Participation it was not. Someone wrote us telling us about it since they enjoy using Audience Participation items, and would we fix it. Not a ANNOUNCEMENTS, ANNOUNCEMENTS!!! bad thing to hear from my viewpoint, at least I know You can view online the great Scout stuff being sold by someone looks forward to a particular area. BSA's National Supply division at www.scoutstuff.org The other glaring error I make nearly every month, besides You can select the 'scout stuff' you need, make and print the typos, is dating the Bugle. I have been doing the Bugle off your list then call your local Scout Shop to get it. You for six years, and for some reason, getting the dates, (issue will find a list of all the Scout Shops near your home or number and month) right is one of those little things I mess you can use an 800 number to order directly from up on BIG TIME. One year, I even forgot to change to the National. new year until Don B emailed me to let me know a month or two later. PRAYERS & POEMS FOR SCOUTERS Besides April Showers, we/I got a flood) of emails letting Memo from a child me know about my date mistake. Okay, maybe it was only Unknown 3 or 4 emails, but nonetheless, it was a concern enough for Don't spoil me. I know quite well that I ought not to have some to be moved enough to email us about it. April all I ask for. I am only testing you. wasn't the only month I have heard from Scouters about Don't be afraid to be firm with me. I prefer it. It makes this mistake, I probably get one email a month about it. me feel secure. Well, since this is causing confusion for everyone, (hey, if Don't let me form bad habits. I have to rely on you to I am confused it makes sense you are), we are changing detect them in the early stages the way the issues are dated. From now on, you will see the month's Roundtable the Bugle is for, the theme (both Don't make me feel smaller than I am. It only makes me Cub and Webelos) and the volume and issue number. behave stupidly big. And thank you for keeping me straight on this stuff. Don't correct me in front of people if you can help it. ****************************** I'll take much more notice if you talk quietly with me in private. Sometimes I find out about something that Scouts have done and it gets me so dang excited. Two Scouts, who just Don't make me feel my mistakes are sins. It upsets my crossed over from Webelos developed a great page for sense of value. those Webelos working on the Geologist Activity Badge. Don't protect me from consequences. I need to learn the Many of the areas of this Badge have links to where painful way, sometimes. answers can be found. And then it only gets better. There are online forms or blank sheets for the answers that can be Don't be too upset when I say, "I hate you." It isn't you I printed out after the answers are found! hate, but your power to thwart me. The following URL will take you to their homepage, scroll Don't take too much notice of my small ailments. down and you will find Webelo Scout Geologist Badge. Sometimes they bring me the attention I need. Check out the other pages they have. http://library.thinkquest.org/J002744/adlm.html Don't nag. If you do, I shall have to protect myself by I contacted the adult who helped them with their site to get appearing deaf. permission to link the site. Someone contacted them about Don't forget that I cannot explain myself as well as I spelling Webelos wrong. Yes, they are aware the word should like. This is why I'm not always very accurate. Webelos is spelled wrong. But the page is in a contest, 2 BALOO'S BUGLE Don't make rash promises. Remember that I feel badly let Volunteers, God Bless Them down when promises are broken. Many will be shocked to find Don't be inconsistent. This completely confuses me and When the day of judgment near makes me lose faith in you. That there's a special place in heaven Set aside for volunteers. Don't tell me my fears are silly. They are terribly real, and you can do much to reassure me if you try to understand. Furnished with big recliners, Satin couches and footstools, Don't put me off when I ask questions. If you do, you will Where there's no committee chairman, find that I will stop asking and seek my information No group leaders or carpools, elsewhere. No eager team that needs a coach, Don't ever suggest that you are perfect of infallible. It No bazaar and no bake sale, gives me too great a shock when I discover that you are There will be nothing to fold or mail, neither. Telephone lists will be outlawed, But a finer snap will bring Don't forget how quickly I am growing up. It must be very Cool drinks and gourmet dinners difficult to keep pace with me, but please do try. And treats fit for a king. Don't forget that I cannot thrive without lots of You ask, "Who will serve these privileged few understanding love. And work for all they're worth? Why, all those who reaped the benefits But I don't need to tell you that, do I? And not once volunteered on Earth. Prayer A Camper's Ten Commandments Western Los Angeles County Council Greater St. Louis Area Council Dear Heavenly Father, Thou shalt do thy share and more; Thank you for letting me be a Cub Scout. Thou shalt keep thy sense of humor; Thank you for helping me to make new friends. Thou shalt do thy camp duties to the best of thy ability; Thank you for my parent who help me. Thou shalt not cry over burnt food; Thank you for all the fun I have had. Thou shalt treat other people as you would wish them to And most of all, treat you; Thank you for helping me when things we hard. Thou shalt not pollute or destroy; Amen. Thou shalt not giggle all night. Thou shalt not forget about personal cleanliness; Prayer Thou shalt spread thy friendship to someone new; Western Los Angeles County Council Thou shalt listen to thy leaders, for they are wise in the Let us think for a moment of all the countries that go to ways of making camp a happy time for everyone. make up the God's world. There are many places where TRAINING TIP people cannot live a happy and normal life as we do. There are still countries torn by war and all the horrors it brings. We know that in others, food and medicine are in BUY THE BOOK! Nearly every month in the Book of short supply, and that people like ourselves are suffering the Month section, a suggested book is the "Cub Scout and dying because of it. Lord, give strength to all those Leader Book". This book for CS Leaders is, in my who are in need and guide the hearts of all who are trying opinion, the best book out there for your personal library at to help them. Amen. home or your Pack library. My reasoning for this is pretty simple. I read many questions each month online from Success Comes in CANS inquiring Cub Scouters. These questions are posted many C-CS-2 different places, egroups, forums, newsgroups, etc. Many Do all the good you CAN, of the questions are about issues not involved in program By all the means you CAN, policies , while others relate directly to program policies. In all the ways you CAN, Sometimes answers to these questions are, well, incorrect. In all the places you CAN, When I first became a Cub Scout Trainer, a friend, Jan H. At all the times you CAN told me "never provide information, unless you can also To all the people you CAN provide the resource you got it from." When I post an As long as ever you CAN answer to a question that has been asked online, I cite my source, which is usually the Cub Scout Leader Book. Together we CAN make a difference in the life of a boy. It is easier and sometimes quicker to get that online Success does come in CANS, I CAN, YOU CAN, WE answer.