Growing Up Right, Growing Up Strong...Parents, Kids, and Scouting

A Free E-Book for Scout Parents

Special thanks to David Harakal and Mike McMinn for bringing this excellent resource to our attention.

http://www.scoutparents.org/ParentingBook.aspx  

This book was written in dedication to Gerald Lawhorn for his vision to support parents in their efforts to raise their children the best way possible. You will find chapters filled with stories of how families support the efforts in involving their children in the community. It’s for parents, mentors, and families, as well. It’s all about diverse people finding common ground in shared values, interests, and challenges. It’s people coming together to help raise each other’s kids. It’s people united by a vital purpose: to create a caring, nurturing, loving environment where their kids can flourish. And whether those kids are blood relatives or not matters little.

Over the past couple of years, I've had the chance to participate in a unique project: researching and writing a book for the Boy Scouts of America to sell potential Scout parents on the benefits Scouting offers their children, their families, and themselves. Called Growing Up Right, Growing Up Strong: Parents, Kids, and Scouting, the book is now available as a free e-book at the ScoutParents website, www.scoutparents.org . (Click the Parenting Book link near the upper-right corner of the page.)

If you're having trouble getting parents involved in your troop or if you're looking for success stories to share with prospective troop families, the book can be a useful resource. It even includes a simple tool that helps parents figure out how toserve based on the time they have available, their skills, and the environment in which they prefer to work--alone or with a group, with adults or with kids, etc.

I hope you'll share this information with people in your troop and use this book to further the Scouting program in your community.

Mark Ray
Author of The Scoutmaster's Other Handbook