Dear Wolf Den Cub Scout Parents:
This is a reminder that there are a number of achievements from your son’s handbook that must be completed by you at home, and you—as “Akela,” a leader—should review those with your son, and sign off in the handbook when it is complete. A list is provided below for your convenience. Some of these (like requirements related to faith) are clearly family matters, many of these are part of what you will doing anyway as you raise your son, and others you will be glad to have (like doing chores around the house).
Thank you for your help in leading all of our great Scouts!
Wolf “At Home” Achievements: Below are the achievements from the boys’ handbook that must be completed by the parent or guardian, at home, where the parent or guardian is “Akela,” a leader. After completion, the parent or guardian will sign off in the handbook.
The den leader will acknowledge completion by initialing the handbook and recording the advancement.
· Complete the exercises in the parent’s guide
How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse.
http://www.scouting.org/filestore/ypt/pdf/46-014.pdf
· Achievement 3 - KEEP YOUR BODY HEALTHY (page 56): a) Make a chart and keep track of your health habits for two weeks. (We’ll send home the chart when it is time to do this).
· Achievement 4 - KNOW YOUR HOME AND COMMUNITY (page 60): While we’ll talk
about these in a den meeting, there will be “do at home” work for the following:
· Make a list of phone numbers you need in case of an emergency. Put a copy of this list by each phone or in a central place in your home. Update it often. (List given in the book.)
· Tell what to do if someone comes to the door and wants to come in.
· Tell what to do if someone calls on the phone.
· When you and your family leave home, remember to . . . (List given in the book.)
· Talk with your family members. Agree on the household jobs you will be responsible for.
· Make a list of your jobs and mark them off when you have finished doing them. Do this for one month.
· Achievement 8 – Cooking and Eating
· Achievement 10 - FAMILY FUN
· Achievement 11 - DUTY TO GOD