Tent Child

If your kid now will be joining the Boy Scouts in the coming school year, it will be good for you to take advantage of this opportunity now that you are out on your summer camping to give initial lessons in scouting so he will not be so ignorant when he joins his Troop next year. The first lesson you might want to give him is on how to care for his Boy Scout camping gear, by using the tent child that he is using now as a separate tent from your family tent.

It was the kid’s idea to set up his own tent because he reasons out that he will be a Boy Scout next school year so he wants to practice using his own tent. You encouraged him on the idea, as that will really happen when he goes out with his Troop in their camping trips later.

You did let him set up his child tent all by himself with you just standing by in case he calls for your help. The kid was so confident that he knew what to do as he unpacked his backpack all by himself, even refusing the assistance offered by his older brother who already experienced Boy Scout camping in the previous year. You signaled the older brother to leave his brother alone, so he can learn faster by doing things himself.

The little Boy Scout-to-be seemed knowledgeable enough on what to do with his pet bed tent. You did not know that he studied the diagrams and instructions on tent pitching back home. He took the time and effort to study the assembly instructions when you gave instructions to the whole family to take out the family’s camping gears from the attic with your little kid specifically tasked to prepare his own kid camping supplies.

Your training for the kid this time maybe should include as much as possible all the scouting techniques you got from your scoutmaster in your own troop of boy scouts when you yourself were a kid. As time is limited however, just brief him first on the very basic things about scouting, the most important probably being the proper care and maintenance of all his kids camping gear. He will be using the same camping gear when he joins his Boy Scout Troop. Teaching him now will help him much, learning ahead of his fellow scouts later.

Teach him the rudiments of the different knots in the knot-tying phase of boy scouting activities, as this will come in handy when he pitches his child tent later. Maybe you can also teach him on how to display his Boy Scout camping packs' contents, which are routine activities in the morning once he is with his own Boy Scout Troop.

One thing you should not forget to include in your lessons now for the new Boy Scout is how to recite the Boy Scout’s oath and the other must-know Boy Scout knowledge he is supposed to master. If you do not remember some of them inasmuch as you had those years ago, ask the kid’s older brother to take over in teaching him those things. He just had his scouting activities last year, so those things a Boy Scout recites verbatim must still be fresh in his mind.