The Scout Handbook

We have some aspiring scouts around here. O has read the Scout manual at least three times. Add the Dangerous Book for Boys, and I can assure you that we have an eight year old who is better at tying knots and making paper airplanes (and water bombs) and things out of sticks than the average kid on our street (but who's comparing?). Meanwhile, I've been fascinated to watch him devouring this boy-stuff. He is all about it. R, too, is asking when he'll be a boy scout. T, of course, insists that he is already "big" and therefore, he should be a boy scout too (though "wolf" scout sounds pretty cool, too).

They come by it honestly. B is an Eagle Scout. So is Mr. Alexander, whom we all admire greatly.

This is an interesting article on how the scout manual has changed over the years. Maybe I better see which edition(s) we have...