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Happy Founders Day and World Thinking Day!!

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Queen Mary, Princess Margaret, Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) at a Windsor Girl Guide rally, 1938

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It’s a triple celebration!! As well as Founder’s Day, and World Thinking Day, I’ve just discovered that there are now over 2 thousand wonderful people following this blog!!

Thank you so much!

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woah, i need to actualizate this tumblr

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oh, i didn't know you answered this!

well, the first thing justifies my point. I mean, boys and girls mixed in one scout group, without touching girl guides or BSA and girls can show off to the boys that they can do everything that boys do. I... I need to see the first gender neutral scout group from the united states... really...

This is what happens when dumbass people get bored. “Does a Boy Scout have to be a boy?” Well, yes, actually, they do, because it’s called the Boy Scouts. If you’re a girl and you want to go into scouting, join the Girl Scouts.

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well, i have an opinion on this. Uhhh why united states don't create mixed scout groups like... in the rest of the world? I mean, you leave the BSA alone and start anew with another scouting program with gender neutral groups... I've never known why is united states the only country I know who dont have mixed scout groups

Let boys have their own space, boys joined the BSA to be with other males. It’s fact that they act differently when around those they consider their brothers. Why must we allow girls into the program?

Boys have ALWAYS had boys only areas. Why should they not learn to work alongside girls and treat them as equals? We can’t expect gender equality if we don’t tell the kids that boys and girls are equal. (As a female scout leader, who tried girl guiding and found it didn’t suit me, I have pretty strong opinions on this)

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The youngest (and smallest) cub in our pack volunteers to do flag down at the end of Crewboree. We’re very proud.

-Phaona

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I actually had an story like that, with the difference that i didn't know there were scouts on my city until i joined them, and that i was bullied when i was 9-13 years old

I think scouting saved lot of lives, incluiding mine. I even know about a rover who was a victim of the colombian civil war, and he joined the scouts when he was a child

Today is mental health awareness day.

For me, my mental health is heavily linked to my scouting life, so let me tell you my story.

I didn’t join scouting until I was 15, so I went straight into Explorers, skipping all the knots and hiking and other traditional skills that people claim defined them as a scout.

At that time in my life I was being badly bullied at school, and my family were starting to get really worried about me. Basically I was a mess.

And then my cousin suggested I tried scouting. Within a few weeks I had new friends, and soon they sort of became family. Suddenly I had something to look forward to every week. I had people who genuinely cared and tried to help me. I had a reason to carry on.

I’ve often said that Scouting helped to pull me out of a deep, dark hole that I was just starting to slip into, and I really do believe that without scouting I might not be here today.

Scouting is a huge, international family, and one of thebiggest things we can do is be there if our family need us.

Who knows? That might be all it takes to save a life!

- Phaona

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I was going to request a scouts pride moodboard, but then I thought I might as well just do it myself :) - moodboard by @timeisdoomed

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full picture and clear picture of Dylan’s face.

From left: Dylan, Brooks, and a friend (unknown) in Cub Scouts.

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I'm just curious how many of you guys are scouts of any kind. reblog if you are a scout.

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Polish Boy Scouts returning home in a hurry after learning of the German invasion 1.09.1939

via reddit

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Why aren’t there more scouts posts!

I need stuff to reblog I don’t have TIME TO WRITE CONTENT!!

Get Scouts on this Tumblr map of fandoms and shitposting!

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Why Are You Still A Scout? I Thought That Was For Children

Sometimes I feel crappy and I look back on all the moments I’ve been sat around a campfire at 1am on a mild summer night, talking about deep stuff and reminicing. I look back at the moments me and the guys have had caterpiller races and clambered on top of each other in sleeping bags at 6am. I look back on the moments where I’ve been struggling in my life, I’ve come to Scouts or gone on camp and the guys act as if nothing is wrong with any of us, even though they can tell, their own little way to support our little group.

Sometimes, I’ve been asked why I’m still a Scout as I’m reaching adulthood.

Those moments that some people will never have are the moments I cherish the most. I’ll still be thinking about them in my darkest hours when I’m 80 in a retirement home. I’ll be thinking about them tonight. And sure, half of the experience is the people you’re with. Just make sure to find the right group for you - I know I have.

I really hope I can hold onto them.

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March 12th 1912: The Girl Scouts founded

On this day in 1912, the Girl Guides - who would later become the Girl Scouts of the USA - were founded. The organisation was founded by Juliette Gordon Low, after she met the founder of Scouting - Robert Baden-Powell. The first Girl Scout meeting took place on March 12th in Savannah, Georgia, with 18 girls attending; there are now over 3.2 million members. Low wanted to give America and the world “something for the girls” and aimed to encourage girls to become active citizens and to develop their full potential. They soon became an important group in the USA, with Martin Luther King Jr describing the Girl Scouts as “a force for desegregation” in the 1950s and 1960s.

“I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we’re going to start it tonight!” - Juliette Low at the first Girl Scout meeting

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Morse Code

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Well I don’t want to start drama but, why is such a problem in the united states to have Scouts? I mean, mixed Scouts. Every sinlge country in the world have Boy scouts, Girl Scouts and Scouts, Why in tarnation united states don’t? Even the united kingdom have mixed scout groups.If they do that then things like that couldn’t happen. Boy Scouts are for boys. Even for transgender boys. I’ve heard stories about the girl scouts having boring activities and whatever (I don’t mean they’re boring) but then, if you don’t want to join a scout group full of girls only, then take the iniciative to make the first mixed scout group! No one tells you that you can’t do that, not even Baden-Powell. 

This is what happens when dumbass people get bored. “Does a Boy Scout have to be a boy?” Well, yes, actually, they do, because it’s called the Boy Scouts. If you’re a girl and you want to go into scouting, join the Girl Scouts.