Pack 418            Durham School  Tigard, OR

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YOUR SON, SCOUTING, AND YOU

SCOUTING… AN AID TO PARENTS

As a parent, you want your son to grow up to be a self-reliant, dependable, and caring individual. Scouting has these same goals in mind for him. Since 1910, we have been weaving lifetime values into fun and educational activities designed to assist parents in strengthening character, good citizenship, and physical fitness in youth.

Scouting teaches family values…We know that boys do not join Scouting just to get their character built. Boys join because it is fun.

SCOUTING IS FUN WITH A PURPOSE!

The purpose of the Boy Scouts of America as incorporated on February 8. 1910, and charted by congress in June 1916, is to provide for boys and young adults an effective educational program designed to build desirable qualities of character; train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship; and to develop personal fitness.  Through charted organization, Cub Scouting provides a ear-round , home-centered program that had helped to strengthen families since 1930.

In Cub Scouting, boys, families, leaders and chartered organization work together to achieve the following objectives:

  • Influence a boy's character development and spiritual growth.
  • Develop habits and attitudes of good citizenship.
  • Encourage good sportsmanship and pride in growing strong in mind and body.
  • Improve understanding within the family.
  • Strengthen a boy's ability to get along with others.
  • Foster a sense of personal achievement by developing new interests and skills.
  • Provide fun and exciting new things to do.
  • Show a boy how to be helpful and do his best.
  • Prepare him to be a Boy Scout

 

CUB SCOUTING'S VALUES

Our mission

it is the mission of the Boy Scouts of America to serve others by helping to instill values in young people and in other ways prepare them to make ethical choices over their lifetime in achieving their full potential.  The values we strive to instill are based on those found in the Cub Scout Promise, Tiger Cub Promise, Cub Scout Motto and the Law of the Pack.

Law of the Pack

The Cub Scout follows Akela.
The Cub Scout helps the pack go.
The pack helps the Cub Scout Grow.
The Cub Scout gives goodwill.

 

 
Cub Scouts
Cub Scout Motto

DO YOUR BEST

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

Cub Scouting is a home- and neighborhood-centered program designed to support family life for boys in second 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 mental skills such as writing and calculating.
  • Develop personal independence.

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

Cub Scout Promise

I, _______________, promise to do my best

To do my duty to God and my country,

To help other people, and

To obey the Law of the Pack.