Scoutmaster Podcast 79

Opening joke: how to make a million dollars as a scout leader — start with two million. Clarke previews summer rebroadcast episodes on the Patrol Method, a Scoutmaster's Minute on Seaton, and a camp cleanup story.

The Patrol Method: Baden-Powell's 1910 advice on trusting patrol leaders, why troop meetings are a means not an end, and what Scoutmasters should actually be doing while youth run the meeting.

Ernest Thompson Seaton — the fire kindled in the heart: why scouting deliberately chooses the harder path for growth over the easier one.

Keith Monroe of Troop 2 Santa Monica discovers that auctioning candy bars for pieces of trash is the only reliable way to get scouts to clean up camp.