What are the benefits of Cub Scouting to youth?
By making the commitment to operate a Cub Scout pack, your organization works
with boys, families, and leaders to achieve the following objectives:
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Parents agree that Cub Scouting provides boys with
- A safe, friendly environment
- A sense of belonging
- Involvement in community service
Source: Louis Harris & Associates
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- Character development
- Cub Scouting promotes positive character attributes by teaching
boys teamwork, self-reliance, and the confidence to handle
challenges that cross their paths.
- Spiritual growth
- Cub Scouting encourages boys' spiritual growth by teaching
them moral and ethical values and encouraging them to live by
the spiritual values of their families.
- Good citizenship
- Cub Scouting helps a boy develop habits and attitudes of good
citizenship by promoting interest in good government and civic
affairs and teaching them to take an active interest in the
civic, cultural, social, and moral welfare of the
community.
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A majority of parents report that Cub Scouting helped their sons
- Get along with others,
- Respect the feelings of others
- Improve their social skills
- Become better organized/tidy
- Respect the environment
- Stay away from drugs
- Be more helpful at home
Source: Louis Harris & Associates
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- Sportsmanship and fitness
- Cub Scouting encourages good sportsmanship and pride in growing
strong in mind and body through hands-on experiences that help
boys realize their own potential for developing and mastering
new skills.
- Family understanding
- Cub Scouting helps improve understanding and cohesion within
the family by delivering the message to boys and their parents
that manners, ethics, caring, respect, and service to one's own
family are important attributes.
- Respectful relationships
- Cub Scouting strengthen a boys' ability to get along with others
through a strong family emphasis and by offering a structured
program of learning by doing. Each member learns the value of
teamwork but also takes pride in individual accomplishment.
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The Cub Scouting program addresses this element by providing positive role
models and encouraging family togetherness. Parents and their sons
- Do projects together
- Go places together
- Talk together
- Read together
Source: Louis Harris & Associates
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- Personal achievement
- Cub Scouting fosters a sense of personal achievement by developing
new interests and skills—the self-confidence, fun, and sense of
accomplishment boys get from skill-building activities are life
skills they will take with them into adulthood.
- Friendly service
- Cub Scouting instills the ideal of friendly service by showing boys
how to be helpful and do their best through practice.
- Fun and adventure
- Cub Scouting provides fun and exciting new things to do through a
variety of challenging activities that help build fitness, character,
and good citizenship traits.
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