During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother. As a […]
B-P’s Blog – A Mountain Dream
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. ENFORCED solitary leisure spent among mountain tops is so good for the soul that […]
B-P’s Blog – Faith, Hope, and Love
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. IT has been said that youth is fortified by hope and old age is […]
B-P’s Blog – The End Is Character
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. ENFORCED solitary leisure spent among mountain tops is so good for the soul that […]
B-P’s Blog – I Was A Boy
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. I Was A Boy Once. The best time I had as a boy was […]
B-P’s Blog – Scoutcraft
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. Instruction in scoutcraft should be given as far as possible through practices, games, and […]
B-P’s Blog – Leadership
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. LEADERSHIP is the keynote to success– but leadership is difficult to define, and leaders […]
B-P’s Blog – First Principles
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. It is scarcely necessary for me to go over the old ground of our […]
B-P’s Blog – Synthetic Scouting
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. PERSONALLY I fear there is the danger that a kind of synthetic Scouting may […]
B-P’s Blog – Reluctant Scoutmaster
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. Only to-day I heard of a case where a man had been an interested […]
B-P’s Blog – Adventure
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. WHETHER the ordinary school education is really preparing them for life, rather than for […]
B-P’s Blog – Reading
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. I HAVE said in Rovering to Success that travel and reading and Nature study […]
B-P’s Blog – Jamborees
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. I RECOGNISE more fully than before the great value of Jamborees, provided that they […]
B-P’s Blog – Jollifying Scouting
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. I’M not satisfied, although one might think I ought to be. Our numbers are […]
B-P’s Blog – Camping and Hiking
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. SPRING is here, though to-day, with a bitter east wind blowing, you might not […]
B-P’s Blog – The Scouter as Fisherman
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. Put Yourself in His Place THIS is always a useful practice. As a fisherman […]
B-P’s Blog – Bad Camping
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. I HAVE been GLAD to see a good many reports of bad camping by […]
B-P’s Blog – International Scouting
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. UP here among the Swiss mountains, in the green valley of Kandersteg, one is […]
B-P’s Blog – Scouting and Health
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. SIR GEORGE NEWMAN said recently: “National health is not dependent on doctors and nurses, […]
B-P’s Blog – Scouting – Game, not Science
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. Yes, Scouting is a game. But sometimes I wonder whether, with all our pamphlets, […]
B-P’s Blog – Out of Patience
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. “I’m Out of Patience with You” THAT’S a good old English phrase when you […]
B-P’s Blog – Happifying
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. AT the risk of being a bore I would like to point out once […]
B-P’s Blog – Religious Observance
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. FOR an open Troop, or for Troops in camp, I think the Scouts’ Own […]
B-P’s Blog – A Scout is Thrifty
During his lifetime Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the worldwide Scouting movement, wrote many books and articles directed to Scouters. Each Sunday I’ll publish a selection from his writings in the hope that you’ll draw inspiration and understanding from his timeless ideas. A Scout is thrifty. I THINK we are happier people now than we were […]
