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What is Cub Scouting? In a word, Cub Scouting means "doing." Everything in Cub Scouting is designed to have the
boys doing things. Activities are used to achieve the aims of
Scouting—citizenship training, character development, and personal fitness. Many
of the activities happen right in the den and pack. The most important are the
monthly den meetings and pack meetings.
Apart from the fun and excitement of Cub Scout activities, the Cub Scout
Promise, the Law of the Pack, and the Cub Scout sign, handshake, motto, and
salute all teach good citizenship and contribute to a boy's sense of belonging.
In Cub Scouting, boys and their families have fun and adventure in a program
that builds character and instills values. Cub Scouting embraces the values of
citizenship, compassion, cooperation, courage, faith, health and fitness,
honesty, perseverance, positive attitude, resourcefulness, respect, and
responsibility. These values come to boys in all parts of the Cub Scout
program—all while they're having a great time with their friends and families.
As a worldwide brotherhood, Scouting is unique. It is based on the principles
of loving and serving God, of human dignity and the rights of individuals, and
of recognizing the obligation of members to develop and use their potential. It
is a movement dedicated to bringing out the best in people. Cub Scouting doesn't
emphasize winning as an end result, but rather the far more demanding task of
doing one's best.
When Scouting can help nurture courage and kindness and allow boys to play,
to laugh, to develop their imaginations, and to express their feelings, then we
will have helped them grow. We want boys to become useful and stable individuals
who are aware of their own potential. Helping a boy to learn the value of his
own worth is the greatest gift we can give him.
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