Comments on: Mike of ‘Dirty Jobs’ Shares His Eagle Scout Perspective http://www.scoutingnews.org/2008/11/15/mike-of-dirty-jobs-shares-his-eagle-scout-perspective/ Keeping you informed about Scouting! Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:21:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tom Grubs http://www.scoutingnews.org/2008/11/15/mike-of-dirty-jobs-shares-his-eagle-scout-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-3270 Tom Grubs Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:17:32 +0000 http://www.scoutingnews.org/?p=677#comment-3270 Mike, It is a good thing that you are doing for these Scouts. I am an Eagle and my soon to be 18 son is working on his Eagle Project only 44 days before his 18th birthday. Nothing like cutting it close. But, as you said, parents and others can't make a kid become an Eagle Scout and can't do the work for them either. My wife & I encouraged out son Tommy in all kinds of ways to complete his merit badges earlier but he was steadfast on doing things his way and on his terms. Well, yesterday, after he had finished getting his merit badge councilor's final sign off on one of his last required merit badges, he said that it wasn't as bad nor as time consuming as he'd imagined it would be. I told him that was what we had been trying to tell him. Anyway, he finally said that he wanted to get his Eagle because he wanted to prove to all of the nay sayers that he could do it and that he wanted to stop being a procrastinator; and I said that was a good enough reason. Thanks for your encouraging comments in the above letter that now every troop in the country has probably read! Tom Grubs Eagle Scout Sylvania, Ohio Mike,
It is a good thing that you are doing for these Scouts. I am an Eagle and my soon to be 18 son is working on his Eagle Project only 44 days before his 18th birthday. Nothing like cutting it close. But, as you said, parents and others can’t make a kid become an Eagle Scout and can’t do the work for them either. My wife & I encouraged out son Tommy in all kinds of ways to complete his merit badges earlier but he was steadfast on doing things his way and on his terms. Well, yesterday, after he had finished getting his merit badge councilor’s final sign off on one of his last required merit badges, he said that it wasn’t as bad nor as time consuming as he’d imagined it would be. I told him that was what we had been trying to tell him. Anyway, he finally said that he wanted to get his Eagle because he wanted to prove to all of the nay sayers that he could do it and that he wanted to stop being a procrastinator; and I said that was a good enough reason.
Thanks for your encouraging comments in the above letter that now every troop in the country has probably read!

Tom Grubs
Eagle Scout
Sylvania, Ohio

]]> By: Mike Rowe’s Offer to all Eagle Scouts! | Scouting News http://www.scoutingnews.org/2008/11/15/mike-of-dirty-jobs-shares-his-eagle-scout-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-1393 Mike Rowe’s Offer to all Eagle Scouts! | Scouting News Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:43:37 +0000 http://www.scoutingnews.org/?p=677#comment-1393 [...] have probably read Mike Rowe of ‘Dirty Jobs’ Eagle Scout Perspective, but there is more! Mike is now writing customized letters to Eagle [...] [...] have probably read Mike Rowe of ‘Dirty Jobs’ Eagle Scout Perspective, but there is more! Mike is now writing customized letters to Eagle [...]

]]> By: Josh http://www.scoutingnews.org/2008/11/15/mike-of-dirty-jobs-shares-his-eagle-scout-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-1264 Josh Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:06:49 +0000 http://www.scoutingnews.org/?p=677#comment-1264 Thanks for the hat tip! :) Thanks for the hat tip! :)

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