Tab Scouts Part 2

When I solicited suggestions for the growing list of Tabib Boy Scouts activities on Tuesday I did not expect much feedback. Well Grant and Erin came through in a big way with a monster list of awesome. Some of the items I am kicking myself for not putting on my original list and others are ones that are great, but I never would have come up with on my own. Big thanks G&E and below is the list they sent...

Cooking

• Knife skills
• Knife sharpening
• How to chop/dice/mince vegetables
• How to break down and cook poultry from the entire bird (sans feathers, maybe) - might replace this with grilling basics
  
• Bread baking fundamentals

Food Awareness

• What is actually in food?
• How does the body process food?
• How do people eat in other parts of the world?

Navigation

• How to read a map
• How to use a compass
• How to navigate astronomically
• In general, a strong sense of North/South/East/West and spatial distance reasoning; grasping the functional difference between 50 feet, 2 kilometers, and 20 miles (and not only by how long it takes to drive on the interstate—how long to walk, to ride a bike, etc)

Water Safety

• Swimming
• Canoeing
• How to hold somebody else afloat in the water

Fishing Basics

Sewing

• Mending
• Buttons

Basic First Aid

Typing

Animal Safety

• How to interact with dogs
• Why it is important to understand that other animals do not think like humans and shouldn’t be treated like furry people- e.g., when dogs bite down on something and shake it back-and-forth, that’s called the “kill bite” because they’re hard-wired to grab their pray and shake it back and forth until it stops moving—it is not playful.

Manners/Etiquette

• Basics of social graces, thank you notes, etc. within the kid’s own culture
• Viewed from a survival perspective, how to interact with people of different ages and groups without grossly offending them: e.g., don’t touch people or food with the left hand in most countries of the world. Take your hat off indoors if you’re around traditional American southerners.

Cleaning

• How to clean different materials—wood, stainless steel, aluminum, plastic
• How to clean things efficiently—cars, houses, floors

Bicycle Riding

• Bunny hopping
• Track standing
• Inside foot up, weight on the outside for higher speed cornering
• How to handle traffic
• How to look over your shoulder without swerving
• How to ride in a group/paceline
• How to ride no hands
• Why a helmet makes you safer on a bike, but by no means safe

Creative Writing

Music

• Playing it
• Hearing it: picking out particular instrumental sounds in a song.
• Not automatically hating or writing off what doesn’t appeal to your ear/taste.

A great list for sure, I'll combine the two and keep it as a Google document for years to come. By the by, thanks for writing my Thursday post for me Holbricks, I owe ye both one.