ScoutMaster Minutes

The best way to wrap up a meeting and make sure everyone knows it is time to go is to close with ScoutMaster Minutes. This is an opportunity for the ScoutMaster to address the troop and leave them with something to think about. It is usually a short story with a moral, a quote, or a thought. There's no reason why den leaders and CubMasters can't use the same method of closing their meetings.

Minutes
10 Tips to Get Along	A Chain	A First Class Scout
A Good Big Brother	A Scout Is... (collection of minutes)	A Wrapper A Day
Advancement - One Step At A Time	Afraid and Brave	Americans Creed
An Hour of Your Time	An Old Prayer	Another Year at Camp
Apes and Bananas	Astronauts and the Scouting Experience	Back It Up
Bad Influences	Balanced Diet	Be a Blessing - a true story
Become a Yes Man!	Being Ready, Able, and Willing	Between Right and Wrong
Big Ego	Big Rocks	Blind Wise Man
Boss vs. Leader	Bound Through Scouting	Box of Stuff
Brave	Bridge Builder	Buddy System
Carpenter	Carrots, Egg, or Coffee	Climbing Mt. Fuji
Climbing the Mountain	Close to the Edge	Coasting is All Downhill
Collection of Quotes	Common Ground	Confidence
Crab Behavior	Crickets	Criticizing Others
Cross Your Arms	Difference Between Scout and Dog	Disneyland Garbage
Do The Right Thing	Doing Silly Tricks	Don't Quit
Don't Get Hooked	Donkey in a Well	Drafting and Leading
Dynamite - I Can Stop Anytime	Eagle and the Prairie Chicken	Eagle Medal
Elephant Chains	Everybody's Canoe	Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody
Everyone is Significant	Failing	Filling My Jar
Finish the Story	Finish Your Task - a true story	First Step
Flags	Flea Training	Frappings of Life
Getting Discouraged	Give or Take	Good Samaritan
Goose Sense	Hawk and Waterfall	Heat, Fuel, and Oxygen
Helping Strangers	How To Catch a Monkey	How to Treat People - a true story
I Am Your Flag	I can Sleep at Night	Indian Chief and the Moon
IQ, FQ, MQ	John Wayne: The Scout Law	Johnny Appleseed
Key to Scouting	Keys of Opportunity	Knight's Code
Leave a Trace	Life's Choices	Lifetime of Happiness
Little Deaf Frog	Living What You Believe - a true story	Living Your Dash
Making a Difference	Mark Twain Quote	Measure Up
Minnows and Whoppers	Most Important Word in the Scout Law	Mountain Climbers Faith
Never Give Up - a true story	Noah's Ark	Obstacles and Opportunities
Oldest Eagle Scout	Packing Parachutes	Patrol Spirit
Picture You Portray	Positive Attitude	Pray for Challenges
Ragged Old Flag	Reach for the Stars	Reaching Higher
Red Skelton - What the Pledge means to ME	Responsibility	Roping Together
Scout Handshake Origin	Scout is Like a Teabag	Scout Neckerchief
Scout Spirit Shows	Scout's Map and Compass	Scouting Heros
Scoutmaster Prayer	Set An Example	Set Of Your Sails
Shipwrecked	Shoes	Sleeping at Camp
Someone Else	Sportsmanship	Stars Are Good Deeds
Step Up and Follow Through	Stick To It	Stone Cutter
Take a Look at Yourself	Tall Trees	Thankfulness
The Butterfly	The Devil's Favorite Tool	The Dollar Bill
The Gardener	The Getting or The Having	The Keystone
The Real Heaven	The Scoutmaster	The Second Half
Three Things Needed to Attain a Goal	Tigger or Eeyore?	Tomorrow
Top 10 Lists	Tossing Back Starfish	Trading Time for Treasures
Trailing Game	True Story: One Good Turn Deserves Another	Twelve Words
Two Little Words	Two Seas	Two Wolves
UnSaying My Words	What You See Is What You Get	What's Your Vision?
When You Walk Through the Woods - Poem	Winners and Losers	Wolf Ceremony
Words To Live By - a true story	YaGoddaWanna

You may find that some of these anecdotes and tales are useful for scoutmaster conferences to impress an ideal on a scout. Scoutmasters should keep a handful of fresh short stories ready for when opportunities arise whether at a troop meeting, around a campfire, or on a hike.

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