A Child's Ten Commandments for Parents
A list of ten truths from a child's perspective.

Appropriate Caring and Touching of Children
It is important to show caring and to encourage children by being warm and affectionate, especially when many of the children who come to youth groups do so to get away from their own troubled homes.... Being touched in a positive and appropriate way means "I like you" and "You belong here."

Beaver-Age Youth
Characteristic common to children in this age group, and examples and suggestions for the types of Beavers you may experience.

Behaviour Problems
If a Beaver misbehaves, what might cause it and what can you do. These pages have been taken from A Practical Guide to Solving Preschool Behaviour Problems, by Eva Essa.

Breaking the Ice With Children
These simple routines and ideas work for clowns, and they work for one Colony Scouter, why not add them to your repertoire?

Building Up Self-Esteem in Children
"The point is, we need to be aware that we do influence children's lives even in the short time we have with them. That awesome knowledge itself should affect how we treat children at all times."

Child Abuse
This article is intended as a thought starter. While its concepts are universal, the legal requirements and guidelines may not apply in your area.

Children and Anger
Many adults have learned that anger is bad and should be eliminated. However, anger is just a feeling. It signals us that something is going wrong. Separate feelings from actions: ...

Children's Bill of Rights, The
We, children from seven countries and three continents, having communicated with each other over the Internet, agree that the following are natural rights, and hereby ratify them:

Definition of a Beaver
A Beaver is nature's answer to that false belief that there is no such thing as perpetual motion.

Effective Communication With Beavers
Several checklists to ensure to get through and can communicate with Beavers.

Flowers are Red
These words by Harry Chapin show us how we could stiffle the creative mind and spirit of a child.

Introspective Look at Your Colony
A form you can fill out as you reflect on your Colony of Beavers. Place your Beavers in one or more headings that describe the youth.

Kid’s Do Say the Darndest Things...
According to Julienne Marie Brown:  A first grade teacher collected well-known proverbs. She gave each child in her class the first half of a proverb, and had them come up with the rest.

Looking for the Good Side
Do you look at a glass half empty or half full. Here's some useful ideas for thinking positively and developing the self-esteem of your Beavers.

Respecting the Children in Our Care
This is a resource sheet is from the Canadian Child Care Federation. It is the effects of your behaviour on a child.

Self-Esteem in Children
Children need many things from us adults as they grow and develop. Two of the most important things we can give is our attention and our acceptance ...

Whiner, The
What causes a whiner and what can you do about it.

99 Ways to Say Very Good
This a page that has been in Scouting circles for years. How many other ways can you say the same thing?