Benefits of Scouting

Your young son is growing more quickly than you realize. Now is the time to instill in him the values you would like him to carry with him through his teenage years and adult life. Cub Scouts can help reinforce these values...

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.