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Nature of Boys: Successfully Shy

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Use the familiar to help new Scouts adapt to their environment.

Lighten Your Load

By Scouting magazine

A five-step plan to help you stick with your New Year’s resolutions to lose weight and exercise.

Nature of Boys: 'I'm No Good at Sports!'

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Not every teen comes equipped with athletic prowess. Here’s how to help your guys find a team where they can star.

Push your Scouts away from the table … and the remote control. As I travel to councils across the country, I often speak about the health of our young people and the challenges of the growing problem of youth obesity.

Mixed Messages

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From video games to the Internet to TV, a deluge of messages bombards kids each day. That makes the task of teaching them media literacy even more important.

Guys Read Guy Books

By Scouting magazine

What’s the secret to boys and reading? Give them books about things they like: adventure, biography, science fiction, sports, and yes, even gross humor.

Parenting Solutions: Introducing Children to Culture and the Arts

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Dance, music, and art are the foundation of a child’s cultural education, and experts say “no age is too young” to begin acquiring their lifelong benefits.

Parenting Solutions: Bringing Up a Responsible Child

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Providing children opportunities and tools to learn responsibility helps them become self-sufficient and accountable for their actions as teenagers and adults.

Helping Children Get the Sleep They Need

By Scouting magazine

The rising numbers of first graders through high school seniors who fail to get adequate rest are a wake-up call for parents to become more proactive in promoting healthy slumber.

Parenting Solutions: Manners Do Matter

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Teaching children to be polite can be a challenge in a world where common courtesy is less and less common, but you can be successful by working at it a little at a time.