Cub Scout Pack 85
Parent Handbook
Pack 85 Mission
The leaders of Cub Scout Pack 85 are committed to providing a quality, year-round program of Cub Scouting activities. Special emphasis is placed on character development, outdoor activities, sports, citizenship, and family.
Cub Scouting and Your Family
Do you want your son to grow up to be self-reliant, dependable, and caring? Is it important to you that he learns traditional values such as honesty, trustworthiness, and respect for others and the environment? Are you looking for a program for your boy that supports his development and your family? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then you should discover what Cub Scouting has to offer your son.
Pack 85 invites parents and their sons to become part of one of America’s leading value-driven organizations. The Cub Scout program combines fun with educational opportunities and lifelong values. It helps parents to help their boys strengthen character, develop good citizenship, and enhance both mental and physical fitness. The program also provides boys with a positive peer group and the tools to shape their future.
In Cub Scouting, boys learn ideals like honesty, bravery, and respect. These values help boys make constructive decisions throughout their lifetimes and give them the confidence they need to grow and develop. The unique aspect of Cub Scouting is that you, his family, join the program with your son. You will help him along the way
What is Cub Scouting?
In 1930, the Boy Scouts of America launched a home- and neighborhood-based program for boys ages nine to eleven. The program focused on nature, hobbies, games, preparation for Boy Scouts, and above all, character.
While the Cub Scouting program has changed over the last 75 years, now admitting boys as young as six as Tiger Cubs, and grown from 5,102 boys and 243 packs in 1930 to over 1.9 million boys in more than 53,000 packs today, the focus of the program is still on preparing boys to become better adults.
Boys, families, leaders, and chartered organizations all work together to achieve the ten purposes of Cub Scouting:
1. To influence the development of character.
2. To encourage spiritual growth.
3. To help boys develop habits and attitudes of good citizenship.
4. To encourage good sportsmanship and pride in growing strong in mind
and body.
5. To improve understanding within the family.
6. To strengthen the ability of boys to get along with other boys and
respect other people.
7. To foster a sense of personal achievement in boys by helping them
develop new interests and skills.
8. To show boys how to be helpful and to do one’s best.
9. To provide fun and exciting new things for boys to do.
10. To prepare boys to become Boy Scouts.
We achieve these purposes by teaching the ideals of Cub Scouting, which are represented by the Cub Scout Promise, the Law of the Pack, and the Cub Scout Motto.
Cub Scout Promise
I, (name), promise to do my best,
to do my duty to God and my country,
to help other people, and to obey the Law of the Pack.
Law of the Pack
The Cub Scout follows Akela.
The Cub Scout helps the Pack go.
The Pack helps the Cub Scout grow.
The Cub Scout gives goodwill.
Cub Scout Motto
Do your best!
Who Can Be a Cub Scout?
The Cub Scouting program is for boys in the first through fifth grades. Boys who have finished kindergarten may join on June 1. The program is broken into ranks, and the boys work to earn a specific rank each year in the pack.
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