Cubmaster's Message:

 Cub Scouting should be fun and rewarding for both our young boys and their parents. 

While parents, grand parents, school teachers, coaches, clergy and counselors all play a role in developing our children, Cub Scouting also plays a rather unique and supporting role in that development.   Cub Scouting fills the important gaps that might exist between what a young boy learns at home, at school, in his church, synagogue or mosque, or on the playground. 

Cub Scouting offers a structured environment where boys between 1^st and 4^th grade can interact with their parents, other boys, and adult Scout leaders.  Cub Scouting helps the boys develop individual skills, build a sense of character and civic responsibility, and an appreciation of nature and the environment.  Through Cub Scouting, a boy can learn about his community and its leaders, about how to take a part in that community and to give back. 

Scouting also reinforces many of the family values, faith-based ideals and character lessons that the boy may, or may not, be receiving at home, in his religious studies, in school, or through organized athletics.  This, in turn, helps to the Cub Scout achieve a sense of self-esteem and self-confidence critical to every child's development.

 While the Cub Scouting experience is designed to educate and help prepare a boy for what may lay ahead in life, that experience, above all else, should be fun and rewarding for the boy.

Mike Wootten
Cubmaster
Pack 867