PARENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Pack 370 is blessed with a lot of adult involvement, but even with so many pairs of eyes it is hard to keep on top of every Scout’s individual situation. Parents must help the Pack as only they can, by monitoring their son’s accomplishments, desires, likes, and dislikes and communicating them to the leaders. While fulfilling the boy’s needs, every Scout Pack wants to be what its members want it to be. We are no different. Without parental support, we can achieve only partial success.
Medicines
The adult leaders need to be made aware of any medicine or drugs that a Scout is taking on any trip. In many cases, the leaders handle the medicine them selves. As a minimum, medicine should be brought to the attention of the leaders so they at least know what it looks like and know that a boy is taking it. This can be very important in the event of a medical emergency. All medications should be placed in a Zip Loc bag with written instructions.
Be Involved
The parents need to play a central role if their Scout is to get the most fun and benefit of Scouting by:
Learning about the requirements. Reading the handbook. Counseling and encouraging their son’s advancement. Helping their son to fit Scouting in with his other interests. Reminding their Scout to bring his handbook to every meeting and camping trip and reviewing with him requirements not yet completed before a camp out. Familiarizing themselves with our administrative procedures for advancement and helping boys to cope. If the system is confusing or causing a Scout difficulty, parents should direct his efforts or step in and contact the Den leader. The Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmasters are also willing to discuss problems at any time.
Stay Informed
If you’ve read the section about Scout responsibility you know that we expect much from the boys. One of those expectations is that they will pass important information to their parents. This is not a seamless process, so we supplement it to some extent with electronic mail. Still, the best way for parents to keep up, and thereby be able to help their sons, is to goto the den and pack meetings.
Current information is also located on this website : www.bspack370.com
Volunteer
It takes a lot of adults to run a Pack. There are so many roles that practically anyone, with any ability, or any amount of time, can find a place to help. Some jobs require effort for only a few months, then stop until the following year. Others may be year-round. With enough help everyone’s load is small and volunteers may expect to invest about an hour a week in Scouting.
Quality Time
Scout meetings and trips are for the Scouts. We always welcome parents to attend, but siblings are invited only to specific events.
A Scouting orientation guide !
A special file has been made for you and your scout in Pdf
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