Why Cub Scouting?
Parents of today's youth face a lot of choices in extracurricular activities. They want to have fun, while parents want them to learn positive values and skills that will last a lifetime. If your youth is about to enter first through fifth grade, Cub Scouting may be exactly what you are both looking for.
As a parent, you can be assured that Cub Scouting:
- Involves a variety of family activities
- Encourages good behavior
- Teaches lifelong values
- Strengthens the bonds of family
- And as a kid, your child can be assured that Cub Scouting is fun!
Cub Scouting means “doing.” Everything in Cub Scouting is designed to have the youth doing things. Activities are used to achieve the aims of Scouting – citizenship training, character development and personal fitness. Cub Scouts can
Many of the activities happen right in weekly Den meetings and the monthly Pack meetings.
Cub Scouting has nine purposes:
- Positively influence character development and encourage spiritual growth
- Help the youth develop habits and attitudes of good citizenship
- Encourage good sportsmanship and pride in growing strong in mind and body
- Improve understanding within the family
- Strengthen a youth’s ability to get along with others and respect other people
- Foster a sense of personal achievement by helping them develop new interests and skills
- Show how to be helpful and do one’s best
- Provide fun and exciting new things to do
- Prepare boys to become Boy Scouts & Venturers