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As a new pack I have not done anything as of yet. I do want to send the boys a birthday card and put their name in the newsletter. What ideas do you all have? What do you do for your boys?
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4:35 pm July 26, 2010
| smwalker_oh
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| PTC Star Scout | posts 596 |  
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We put their birthday on the pack's calendar on our website. Note that we don't use full names due to privacy concerns. But for each boy's birthday it will have a small birthday cake icon and then say "Jon W.'s birthday" on the calendar. What's nice is that our calendar has a repeat feature where we can tell it to repeat for a specified time frame. So we know a Tiger joining for the 2010-2011 program year will feasibly be with us through February of 2015, so we can put that as the end date on the calendar. If he drops out before then, we remove the entry. It makes it easy to have something that recognizes the boy without a whole lot of effort on someone's part.
At my den level, some parents will bring in snacks for the den meeting closest to their son's birthday, and that's cool. I know a couple parents that do that at our pack level as well. But that's about all we do for birthdays for the boys.
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6:00 pm July 26, 2010
| ScouterAdam
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| PTC Webelos | posts 86 |  
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Generally, we have not done something as a Pack/Den for birthdays. I know that many of the boys in my son's den will go to eachother's birthday party's.
But as SMWalker states, keep with the BSA standards about last nights and privacy. You just never know.
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Cubmaster Pack 221 Portland, OR WE1-492-09 Beaver Patrol, Staff WE1-492011, Blog:http://scouteradam.wordpress.com/
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6:59 pm August 4, 2010
| kmontano
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Our troop doesn't do anything special for birthdays although our former scoutmaster's birthday used to fall during summer camp so we always did something for him.
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Kevin M., Life Scout, Senior Patrol Leader, Troop 50, Lodge Secretary, Ga-Hon-Ga Lodge, Revolutionary Trails Council, http://boyscoutblog.wsr3.net
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10:37 pm August 4, 2010
| MISS Liberty
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Heh… our Scoutmaster makes a point of bringing up birthdays, but he doesn't really do anything other than let the whole troop know that a kiddo has a birthday coming up.
In the pack, we used to give out a patch when kids had birthdays, but since we don't meet in July for a regular pack meeting (and in previous years didn't meet in June, July or August except for outings) it made it hard to give everyone a patch in a timely manner.
Our Committee Chairman (previously Cubmaster) has a birthday in February that falls on (or near) our Blue and Gold banquet. It's fun getting to sing happy birthday to her as well as to Scouting.
Back in the "olden days" when I first was part of leadership and had thousands of free hours (*snark*) I always made a fancy pants calendar which marked that month's birthdays, but some of the leaders actually were uncomfortable having their birthdays announced. The following year I only published the boys' birthdays, but then siblings complained that they weren't on there, and that was just too much to keep track of, so I gave up.
At this point in the game I leave birthday celebrations up to individual dens. As our dens are currently meeting year round (! yay? !) it means there's a better chance of catching "everyone's" birthday – at least within the same month that it occurred.
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