Scout, BB or Guide?

[Aint Skeered]

Cub and Scout, and loved it.
My daughter has just joined the local Scout troup.
edit. just read my sig. again, and in those days, it did solve the problems!!

 

[wafflycat]

Wasn't in anything like that. I was packed off to dancing classes several times a week and competitions at the weekends, then dance displays for years and years.

I packed the offspring off to St John Ambulance Cadets for a while.

 

[summerdays]

I packed the offspring off to St John Ambulance Cadets for a while.

All of mine are currently at either St Johns Ambulance Badgers or Cadets at the moment, and one in Guides.

 

[col]

Boy's Brigade - 1st Warley!

Learned to play the bugle and drums (kettle and bass).
Learned to love camping and the great outdoors.
Plenty of various activities.
And developed a dislike/mistrust of organised/state religion. Church parade and bible class were virtually compulsory.

We used to be chuffed if we were selected for flag bearer on sundays,felt quite proud,it was more remembrance orientated.Never had bible class.
Our troop was called the 52nd venus troop,and we had a badge on our shoulders with a picture of collossi castle to identify us.Our football team,of which i was a member,toured the island and did very well,normally winning our matches.My son is in the atc cadets now,the cubs and scouts dont seem as popular as they did then?

 

[Keith Oates]

Cub and Scout, really enjoyed the experience and loved the camping holidays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[barq]

I was a cub and it was a very mixed experience. We had some good leaders and got to experience some quite cool stuff: wide games, cooking outdoors, camping. But the Arkela, Arc main leader was quite an elderly lady who hadn't really accepted WWII was over (this was in the 1980s I hasten to add). It was very authoritarian and quite right wing. We had inculcated in us some very suspect views of non-White people which ranged from the patronising (noble savage) to the overtly racist.

A friend of mine persisted with it and was later a Scout which he enjoyed enough to eventually become a leader. It's a shame I didn't carry on because my problems were very much with one individual. But hey, that's the sort of thing you realise with twenty years hindsight!

 

[fossyant]

I was a 'cub' but again left as the leader was a bit of a stickler !! Had fun though, and enjoyed the camping and games and stuff.

My son goes to Beavers (5-8 years) and I've just recently offered my assistance on Monday nights - it's just over an hours time but the leaders do need the help with a bunch of 20-30 roudy under 8's...

It's a lot more laid back these days - the leaders are either teachers or child care people anyway at this age....

 

[tdr1nka]

I left the cubs aged 10 when I realised I was in a small christian military unit.
My favourite moments were the singing in the mini bus on the way home from camp.

I am now a volunteer leader for Woodcraft Folk(socialist scouts, although my group of 10-14 year olds are an anarchist wing)and we get all the fun of the Cubs, Brownies, Scouts and Guides but in mixed sex groups and without the edge of competetiveness or right wing royalist bias.

 

[domtyler]

Was in the cubs for a few years but eventually got chucked out after me and my mate beat up one of the other cubs and threw his bike into the hedge. The incident happened outside of cubs though so I feel that the imposition of the punishment was somewhat out of their remit. Still, shoot happens I suppose!

 

[domtyler]

I absolutely loved boy scouts... the camping, go-karting, abseiling, wide games, jamborees. It also where I had my first cigarette and drink.

I also had quite a lot of responsiblity thrust on me from an early age as an Assistant Patrol Leader.

Things are starting to slot into place now sweetie!

 

[Mac66]

Did a "Beat your Neighbour Down" thing in Orpington in 1977. Lots of cubs from all over, camping for 2 days and doing sports competitions n stuff. We won! Up the 1st Wandsworth.

 

[Melvil]

I mainly remember cubs not for the cool activities we did and the fun we had but a wee tragedy that happened to our cubmaster, Akela - her son had leukemia (I think) and came to cubs every so often but we were warned to be very gentle with him. By this point he'd lost his hair and his skin was very thin.

One day Akela, crying, told us that he'd died (I'm sure she didn't say it in those words) and for all of us it was our first experience of death and a big shock.

 

[ChrisKH]

2nd Canvey Cubs and Scouts. Made Seconder and Sixer (yellow woggle). Defected to 1st Canvey Boys Brigade soon after I was made a scout; for the life of me I can't remember why. As Davyo said Bible Class/Church attendance was compulsory. But we won an enormous shield for beating all the local BB's. Our feat? Being tested on the scriptures in relation to the miracles of Jesus.

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

Scouts. It was a load of old cock.

 

[Zoiders]

Army Cadets

They dont give you Bren guns in the scouts, which kind of sold it for me