Why join Cub Scouting?
Your family time is valuable. More than ever, today’s families can struggle to find time to spend together. Cub Scouting helps to support your family by providing ready-made opportunities for you and your child to do things together.
Your child needs to belong to a group of children their own age. Through this sense of belonging, they build their self-esteem and learn to get along with others. As a parent or guardian, you want to be assured that the groups that your child joins will teach values consistent with good citizenship, character development, and physical fitness. The Boy Scouts of America has been weaving these lifetime values into fun and educational activities since 1910.
Scouting or sports – or both? The result of research addressing the age-old question of whether kids get more out of Scouting or sports may surprise you. Findings show that a young person’s best bet might be participating in both! If you find that sports or other seasonal activities have a time conflict with Scouting events, just participate as often as you can, even if that means showing up in a soccer uniform. Plan to get back into the swing of things as soon as possible, and our leaders will be happy to help you catch up with the rest of the Den.
Scouting builds leaders and shapes character in its members. Additional research programs conclude that children in Cub Scouts experience significant increases in cheerfulness, helpfulness, kindness, obedience, trustworthiness and hopeful future expectations when compared with non-Scouts. Further, when asked what was most important to them, Scouts were significantly more likely than non-Scouts to choose “helping others” or “doing the right thing” over “being the best” or “playing sports”.
Scouting is FUN! When it comes down to it, children join Cub Scouting because they want to have fun. But fun encompasses a lot more than just having a good time. It comes from the satisfaction of meeting challenges, making new friends, feeling good about himself, and feeling they are important to other people. Cub Scouting allows children to have fun doing activities they like to do, all while learning new things, mastering new skills, gaining self-confidence, and developing strong friendships.