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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 L and Little L	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
Complete Meal	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 is Like Whitewater	Life Paths	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	Money Is Not Everything
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
One Good Turn Deserves Another	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	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?
Time	Tomorrow	Top 10 Lists
Tossing Back Starfish	Trading Time for Treasures	Trailing Game
Twelve Words	Two Little Words	Two Seas
Two Wolves	UnSaying My Words	Was Santa Claus a Scout?
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
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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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