Everyone,
Hi! Personal Management Merit Badge info. Eagle-required, so expect more work
for this than the non-Eagle required Merit Badges. But this one is SOOO
valuable!
1. Who signed up. The following Scouts signed up so far, please let me
know if you Scout is interested but not on this list:
* Landon Gump
* Marshall Kiplinger
* Jonathan North
* Adam Cartwright
* Dylan Franck
* Zane Bailey
* Nate Bailey
* Colby Keiser
* Brenden Hopping
* Max Colby
More are welcome! I will have a ton of Blue Cards at Monday's meeting for the
Scouts to go to Joe and get his signature.
2. Materials:
a. Personal Management Merit Badge Pamphlet: Purchasing this pamphlet
from the Scout Shop is optional - if you and your Scout want to purchase it,
you will need to go to one of the Scout shops (ours is on Poe Avenue) and the
cost is about $5.00. However, in order for the boys to read its contents and
be better prepared for our classes, here is a link to a PDF of the pamphlet.
Please note: while the version this link takes you to is not the most current
pamphlet, I have reviewed it and the requirements are identical (this is what
matters), and there are only approx. 5 sentences in the reading material
sections that are different. We will be sure to cover any important sentence
differences in class. Here is the link:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj0mLnngLXNAhXEZCYKHVo1BGQQFggrMAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scoutlander.com%2FCommon%2FDownloadAttachment.aspx%3FSID%3DONN2lYfs30a3Nq9USlVTNw%253D%253D&usg=AFQjCNF2qrWUaR8fWsbjlf_pBFr6ud446Q&bvm=bv.124817099,d.dmo
b. Personal Management Workbook/Worksheets: I have a hard copy for each
Scout, however this IS an editable PDF, so the Scouts could just type into the
form, save it, and then print it out from here:
https://www.meritbadge.org/wiki/images/f/fa/Personal_Management.pdf
3. Meeting Schedule: Most likely we need a 4th meeting to wrap up and
finish. But this merit badge takes time due to a 13-week tracking requirement,
so I want to give the Scouts time to succeed. So once we get school schedules
after August, I will schedule our final meeting. So the first three meetings
are here, all at the Church (we will find a room, might change per meeting):
a. Wednesday, July 6th, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm - SEE PREREQUISITES, below
b. Wednesday, August 3rd, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
c. Saturday, August 20th - 9:00 am - 10:30 am
d. Final meeting - TBD or might just need to give me their tracking
information, etc.
e. If a boys cannot make a meeting, let me know and we will work that out.
4. PREREQUISITES FOR MEETING 1 (either use the Workbook/Worksheets,
above, or just on paper):
a. Please read enough of the pamphlet to complete requirements 1a -
Choose an item that your family might want to purchase that is considered a
major expense.
b. 1b - Write a plan that tells how your family would save money for the
purchase identified in requirement 1a. Nothing huge! Just high-level 'how
would we save for this'? to get the Scouts to think it through. This is just
an exercise in planning, hypothetical - you guys will not really be making this
purchase!
c. 1b2 - Discuss the plan with your family.
d. 1b3 - Discuss how other family needs must be considered in this plan.
e. Bring this stuff to the first meeting.
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Cheerleading:
I know many of the boys are attempting to do all three of the Merit Badges
being offered by Jennifer Doyle (Family Life), Kristin Keiser (Communications),
and myself (Personal Management). Parents should know and probably discuss
with your Scout that all three of these Merit Badges are Eagle-required, and
thus, they take more effort and are on more 'serious' topics as compared to the
non-Eagle-required Merit Badges. I think it is very important for the Scouts
to know this, so they know there is a balance with the Merit Badges - some
easier, some harder.
All of the Scouts are capable of understanding all of this material, and even
if they do not complete the merit badge during the schedule dates, they will
get credit for the requirements they do complete, and have time to finish the
remaining requirements. I KNOW the Scouts can do these - and with the extra
time summer typically affords, it is the perfect time to dive in.
Assuming your Scout does attempt and complete one or more of these Merit
Badges, please talk things out and encourage them if they get frustrated, and
reward them with praise for beginning to become a responsible, contributing
member of society instead of ONLY playing video games during their summer break
(I TOTALLY speak for Max on this addictive temptation!)! LOL
Thanks!
Cyndi
Cynthia.Colby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:Cynthia.Colby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
937.902.9490
