The Scouting Stuff Podcast

Sometimes, Scouts are awarded badges that aren't merit badges, and don't go on the uniform. What happens if you don't fulfill the criteria for one of those? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Android | Like Us on Facebook | Follow Us on Twitter Podcast Topic Ken , Colin , and Ted discuss those other badges, the ones that get handed out to Scouts (and Cubs, and Beavers) that don't ge...

You'll meet a lot of people at a Jamboree or a Scout Camp. Why not trade them for a memento? Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Android | Like Us on Facebook | Follow Us on Twitter Podcast Topic(s) Ken and Colin talk about one of the time-honoured traditions of Scout Camps and international events (such as Jamborees): badge trading . And not just badge trading, but necker trading, a...

Effectively leading a Scout group, at any age level, means having good communication between the leaders. Subscribe on iTunes | Subscribe on Android | Like Us on Facebook | Follow Us on Twitter Shout-Outs Firstly, we'd like to give a shout-out to whomever nominated Scouting Stuff  for inclusion on Podbean's list of Featured Podcasts  under the  Government & Organi...

How do you retain members of your Scout group? And how do you retain leaders, for that matter? Subscribe on iTunes | Like Us on Facebook | Follow Us on Twitter Podcast Topic One of the big challenges facing any Scout group is that of retaining members . What are some of the reasons that Scouts (and Cubs, and Beavers, and leaders too) will drift away from Scouting, and how can Scout group...

National Scouting bodies periodically overhaul their programs and methods. How do Scout groups, and individual Scouters, respond to this? Subscribe on iTunes | Like Us on Facebook | Follow Us on Twitter Podcast Topic How many times have we, as participants and as leaders, been faced with a change in the program (e.g. uniforms, badges, program content)? What is the cost of a program chang...

Is it just a bad B-movie? Or is there something in it that actually reflects Scouting in some way? Subscribe on iTunes Podcast Topic As was alluded to in Episode 3 , some of us were able to go and see Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse , a movie that pits — yes — Boy Scouts (it is set in the United States, after all) against zombies. We had initially expected that the movie would be little more...

Should the Scout Uniform be worn as a Halloween costume? Also, we should have made a bigger deal out of JOTA-JOTI. This episode is a bit more off the cuff, so here's a list of topics discussed: Should the Scout Uniform be work as a Halloween costume? The new zombie movie,  Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse , looks...questionable. We will go see it and offer a review. We missed JOTA-JOTI this y...

Why do Scouts wear uniforms? What are the essential components of a Scout uniform? We're discussing uniforms in this episode. If you look at the etymology of the word “uniform”, it basically means “one form”; it's an outward sign of the unity of a group, of the fact that they are all there for the same purpose, to work toward the same goal(s). This is as true for a soccer team as for a Scout group...

What exactly is Scouting? In this first Scouting Stuff You Should Know podcast, Ken, Colin, and Brian examine the question of just what Scouting is. We take a look at how some of the different Scouting movements around the world define it, and also refer back to Lord Baden Powell's Scouting for Boys (which doesn't offer as concrete a definition of what Scouting itself is, although it goes into gre...