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Your Children, Cub Scouting, and You
As a parent, you want your children to grow up to be people of worth, a self-reliant, dependable, and caring individual. Scouting has these same goals in mind. Since 1910, Cub Scouts has been weaving lifetime values into fun and educational activities designed to assist parents in strengthening character, developing good citizenship, and enhancing physical fitness and building self-esteem and ethical values in youth.
Imagine a program that can help your children learn, grow and mature while they are having fun. There are activities in which you and each youth can participate together with the rest of the family and get to know each other even better. This is exactly what Scouting is. Every activity gives you and your child the chance to discover and share together.
What does your child learn in Scouting? Well, it is a lot more than crafts, games and outdoor skills. All of the Cub Scout programs in which you and your child will participate are carefully designed to teach your child something he or she will use throughout their life. Here are just a few of the things your children will gain through Cub Scouting:
• A feeling of belonging to a positive and fun group of children and caring adults.
• New social skills that will help them get along with others.
• Develop new mental skills from reading and writing, to planning and organizing.
• A greater understanding of other people and the world around them.
• A system of values that will help them grow and make good decisions.
• A concern and caring for people, and opportunities to help others.
• Self-confidence and stronger self-esteem.
Scouting provides your children with a positive peer group and a program that is fun and adventurous and helps them to “be prepared” to shape their own future.
Cub Scouting is fun! But it is fun with a purpose. Woven through all the fun is an inspired program that really works. Tried and proven methods are used that transfer traditional values, build character, and develop leadership skills--all in the context of fun and family togetherness.
Getting Started
Go to the Join Now tab at the top of the page and follow the link provided, or email the address listed for more info.. Our member management system is set up to track families. The Cubmaster will reach out to you to speak about registration. You have the choice to pay online through the application page or give the registration fee to the Cubmaster. All checks should be payable to “BSA Pack 74.”
Carefully review this page so you know what Cub Scouting is all about and how your Scout can get the most out of it.
Find out what kind of activities your Cub Scout Pack is doing in the next few months, and put them on your calendar so you can participate. Once registered you will be emailed updates on activities or you can always find out what’s going via the Event Calendar on the website. You can also follow us on Facebook at Cub Scouts Pack 74 to see updates and events.
Scouting is more fun with friends! Every youth can be a Cub Scout at any time and can register at any point during the year. Talk with other parents and children and have them join your child’s Cub Scout Den now to make Cub Scouting even more fun.
Consider being a Cub Scout leader for your child’s Cub Scout den. Your child’s experience in Cub Scouting depends on your involvement.
How Cub Scouting Works
Scouting is Family Oriented
• Activities are intended for the whole family, so feel free to bring siblings to the meetings. No need to get a babysitter.
• You work with your children on their various award requirements.
• Many skills they will learn are family oriented.
Your child is a member of a Cub Scout Den
• The Den is broken up by grade level.
• The den meets each week.
• The den is led by a Den Leader (parent volunteer).
• Scouts earn rank patches and belt loops by completing a series of adventures that will include activities like hiking, camping, community service and learning skills like first aid, good eating habits, knot tying and more!
• Scouts may join at any time and in any grade level, even if they have not completed the previous ranks.
The Cub Scout Ranks:
Lion - Kindergarten
Tiger - First grade
Wolf - Second grade
Bear - Third grade
Webelos - Fourth grade
Arrow of Light - Fifth grade
Your child is a member of a Cub Scout Pack
• The “Pack” consists of all the Dens and other leaders. The pack meets once a month on Tuesday nights in addition to other weekend activities like hikes and camping. All Cub Scout families are invited and encouraged to attend.
• The Cubmaster leads the monthly pack meeting.
• Pack meetings have games, activities, ceremonies and presentations of awards that the boys have earned during the month.
The pack is run by a Pack Committee (group of parent volunteers).
The Pack Committee is made up of a Committee Chair, Treasurer, Cubmaster, Den Leaders, Event Coordinator, Fundraising Coordinator and many other positions. Most of these leaders are parents of youth in the pack. All leaders and interested parents are encouraged to attend.
• The committee meets once a month.
• The committee plans pack meetings events, organizes volunteers and has fun!
• The committee selects leaders, performs record keeping, manages pack finances, orders awards, maintains pack equipment, helps train leaders, and recognizes leaders.
The pack is owned by a Chartering Organization
• The Chartered organization for Pack 74 is St. Pauls Episcopal Church in Waterloo.
• The chartered organization provides a meeting place, and operates the pack within the guidelines and policies of the chartered organization and the Scouting America.
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