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Life Skills

A Scout’s growth never ends. Read these articles for tips and inspiration that will help you raise your Scout to be a responsible, ethical member of society.

Health & Fitness

Effective tricks to help you fight back against stress

By Scouting magazine

Chill out. No, really. Use these strategies to help you reduce feelings of stress in your life.

Emergency Preparedness

How to bandage an accidental pocketknife wound

By Aaron Derr

You’ve cut your finger on a campout. (Ouch!) Here’s how to bandage the wound in the field.

Character Building

How to hold a meaningful discussion with Scouts about ethnic slurs

By Scouting magazine

This crafted ethics debate will help your Scouts or Venturers hold a discussion on ethnic slurs.

Character Building

How to harness the positive and negative powers of peer pressure

By Scouting magazine

How you can help teens harness the powerful (and sometimes positive) effects of peer pressure.

Health & Fitness

Ten foods that cultivate helpful ‘bugs’ in your gut

By Michael Freeman

Add these prebiotic and probiotic foods to your diet to help support the healthy bugs that dwell in your digestive system.

Life Skills

Tips for grounding your own helicopter-parent behaviors

By

Cleared for landing: helicopter parents, it’s safe to come down now.

Features

Build muscle and camaraderie using a fitness plan designed by Scouts, for Scouts

By Scouting magazine

Troop 111 created a weekly fitness routine to help get in shape and build camaraderie — plus, the adult leaders join in, too.

Health & Fitness

Old-school health and fitness tips from the 1911 Handbook for Boys

By Aaron Derr

Helpful health and fitness hints to consider from the pages of the 1911 Handbook for Boys.

Ethics

What to do when a Scout won’t say the Pledge of Allegiance

By Lauren Iriarte

Use this ethical dilemma to discuss what Scouts or Venturers should do when a peer refuses to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Character Building

How to help young people find the happiness in life

By Aaron Derr

Happiness doesn’t just happen. Here’s how you can help boost your kids’ morale and help them find the happiness in everyday life.

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