Requirements, Requirements, Requirements!

As I mentioned at the beginning of the year, there are requirements the boys will need to complete at home with you to earn their Bear badge. If you click on the link to Bear Advancements, you can see what we’ve covered so far in meetings, but there are a number of requirements that need to be done at home.

These are marked with an “a” in the spreadsheet, but not all the activities marked with an “a” have to be completed. Here is a synopsis of what you have to do:

• Duty to God, Achievement #1 in the Bear handbook. You have to complete both a and b in that section.

• Achievement #6 in the Duty to Country section has to be done at home because most of the activities are specific to your home and the environment. Choose any three of the activities in that section.

• Three Achievements in the Duty to Family section must be done at home because, well, they’re all family oriented activities. They’re pretty simple things. We’ll be doing Achievement 8 at Den and Pack meetings, but you must complete a total of four from this section, so you have to choose three more to complete. You can choose any three of Achievements 9 – 13. Anything you’ve done in the past year counts here, so, for example, you get credit for Achievement 12a if you went camping last summer.

Confusing, I know, but please send me an e-mail if there are any questions. You can let me know when any or all of these Achievements have been completed, but I have to know they have to been done at least few weeks before the Blue and Gold on April 9 to allow for advancement recording.