Family Talent Survey Sheet (Page 2 of 2) in pdf

CUB SCOUTING AND YOUR FAMILY

The Cub Scout program helps to meet your boy’s growth needs. As a boy develops, he has

specific developmental needs such as:

To learn new physical skills. He can do this through games, sports, and crafts. As he

develops his coordination, he gains a sense of worthiness and acceptance by his peers.

To learn to get along with boys of his same age. He needs to form friendships with other

boys. He needs to learn how to balance giving and receiving affection if he is to relate

well to his peers. He needs to belong to a group of boys his own age. Being a part of a

Cub Scout den helps fulfill these needs.

To develop his mental processes. He can develop his mental process by reading, writing,

and calculating. He needs opportunities to use language to express ideas and to influ-

ence others. He must move from a preoccupation with self to understanding how and

what others think of him. Opportunities for observation and experimentation will help

him learn self-reliance. Den activities and meetings, along with the advancement pro-

gram, help him develop mentally.

To develop a value system. He is developing a sense of what is right and wrong and

what is fair and unfair. He will do this by cooperating with other boys, by being taught,

by examples of adults, and from positive reinforcement. He begins to develop demo-

cratic social attitudes.

To develop personal independence. He is becoming less dependent on adults. His same-

age friends become important to him. In his den, and in the pack, he exercises his inde-

pendence while learning to get along with others.

Your son also needs to belong to a ‘‘group’’ of boys his own age. This group is a key com-

ponent of the Cub Scout program. A den is like a neighborhood group of six or eight boys

in which he will achieve status and recognition.

As you learn more about how Cub Scouting works and what goes on in a den and a pack,

you will see that the program helps your boy in these five important developmental needs.

The uniqueness of Cub Scouting is that you, as his family, join the program with your boy.

You will help him all along the way.

To find out how you can support your boy by becoming a Cub Scout family, please turn the

page and complete the Family Talent Survey Sheet*. Please turn it in at this meeting. Your

cooperation and help are appreciated.

* Also may be titled Parent and Family Talent Survey Sheet.

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