Scout Spirit Minute

What is Scout Spirit?
Scout spirit applies to how you live and how you conduct your daily life – that is, your life both in and out of scouting activities.

You show Scout spirit by being a role model, living by the Scout Oath and Law.
Scout spirit is not based on how many Scouting events or outings a Scout attends, but rather by how he helps bring out the best in others as a reflection of his own character and attitude.

Some ways to do this are:

• telling the truth,
• sticking up for the kid being picked on,
• handing out papers for the teacher,
• letting everyone play a game,
• saying thank you to the clerk at a store,
• helping a kid that dropped his books instead of laughing at him,
• playing fair to have fun rather than to win no matter what,
• looking for a little fun in every job you have to do,
• using your boring old cellphone for another year because it still works,
• asking your buddies to not use bad language around you,
• listening to music that doesn’t promote hate, violence, and other trash,
• taking 5 minutes once in a while to just quietly sit outside and think about where you’re heading in life

(that was a simple example of each of the 12 points in the Scout Law)