What Does Scouting Offer?

As a parent, your want your son to grow up and be a person of worth, self-reliance, dependability, and be a caring individual.  Scouting has these same goals in mind for him.

Since 1910 we've been weaving lifetime values into fun and educational activities designed to assist parents in strengthening character, and enhancing the physical fitness of youth. 

These values help your son make good decisions throughout his lifetime and give him confidence, as he becomes and adult leader of tomorrow.

In a society where your son is often taught that winning is everything, Cub Scouting teaches him to "do his best" and to be helpful to others as expressed in the Cub Scout Motto and Promise.

A Cub Scout den can provide your son with a group of boys his own age in which he can earn status and recognition.  There he will also gain a sense of personal achievement for the new skills he learns. 

Do Your Best!

Cub Scouting is a home and neighborhood centered program designed to support family life for boys in first through fifth grades.  Each Cub Scout learns to respect his home, country, God, and other people.  The program also helps boys this age to:

• Learn new physical skills through sports, crafts, and games.

• Learn how to get along with others through group activities.

• Develop new educational skills such as writing and calculating.

• Develop personal independence.

What Scouting Does for Families and Families Do for Scouting

The Pack's Responsibilities to the Family:

• Provide a well-planned, year-round program of activities in the Den and Pack that meets the aims and purposes of Cub Scouting and the needs of the boys.

• Provided trained, qualified, and enthusiastic leaders for all Den and Pack Meetings and activities.

• Keep parents informed of upcoming Den and Pack activities.

• Provide activities that help strengthen the family and give them opportunities to work and play together.

• Help families participate in Cub Scouting according to each family's unique ability to do so.

The Family's Responsibilities in Cub Scouting:

• Working with their Cub Scout on advancement work.

• Attending Pack Meetings, and if possible Den Meetings for the younger Scouts - Tigers and Wolves.

• Presenting advancement awards to the Cub Scout at Pack Meetings.

• Helping at an occasional Den Meeting on a specific project or Webelos Activity Badge with older Scouts - Bears and Webelos.

• Providing refreshments on a rotating basis.

• Providing transportation to the activities.

• Assisting with Den outings.

• Assisting with communication in the Den, and sometimes the Pack.

• Assisting the Cub Scout with fundraising efforts.

• And, if you're game, serving as a Day Camp or Committee Volunteer.

Becoming a Cub Scout in Pack 44

At our National Recruiting Pack Meeting on September 12th, 2006, a presentation was given on "Becoming a Cub Scout in Pack 44," just click Becoming a Cub Scout to view it.

A Very Short History

While Scouting has a long history dating back to 1910, this brief note is intended to simply inform Parents and potential Scouts about the history behind it.  Boy Scouts of America incorporated on February 8, 1910 when British Army officer, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell visited the United States to talk with leaders, and President Taft became the first honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America with Theodore Roosevelt first honorary Vice-President.

When Lord Baden-Powell was stationed in India, he discovered that his men did not know basic first aid or the elementary means of survival in the outdoors. He realized the needed to teach his men many frontier skills, so he wrote a small handbook called Aids to Scouting, which emphasized resourcefulness, adaptability, and the qualities of leadership that frontier conditions demanded.  For more information visit the Boy Scouts of America web page entitled History of Cub Scouting

Join Pack 44!

To join Cub Scout Pack 44, all that is required is to contact either Pack 44 directly or the local Scout Office, fill out a registration form and pay a small fee that is about a quarter of the price it costs to enroll a child in a seasonal sports activity these days.  Uniforms and handbooks may also be obtained through the local Scout Office or through vendors like ScoutStuff.Org.

JoinCubScouting.Org

For you and your son, the Boy Scouts of American have put together this web site to make it fun for him and provide a bit more information for you just by clicking the header above.  Also, the National Council answers the question What is Cub Scouting?

This web site had been developed in accordance with, and with consideration of, the Advice for Unit Web Sites by the National Council of Boy Scouts of America.

Pictures on our web site that clearly identify a Scout or Scout Leader are only included with appropriate expressed written permission.

Several pieces of artwork on this site were copied from the U.S. Scouting Service Project Web Site, http://clipart.usscouts.org/library/index.asp; which provides the following information about the artwork and images provided there: "Materials found at the U. S. Scouting Service Project, Inc. Website ©1997-2005 may be reproduced and used locally by Scouting volunteers for training purposes consistent with the programs of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) or other Scouting and Guiding Organizations."

Questions or problems regarding this web site should be directed to our webmaster, webmaster@cubscoutpack44.net

Last modified: 04/08/08.