Family Life
Family Life is a required merit badge for the Eagle Scout
rank.
- Prepare an outline and discuss with your merit badge
counselor what a family is and how the actions of
one member can affect other members.
- List 10 reasons why you are important to your family.
Review these points with your parents or guardians and
with your merit badge counselor.
- Prepare a list of your regular home duties or chores
(at least five) and do them for 90 days. Keep a record
of how often you do each of them.
- With the approval of your parent/guardians and your
merit badge counselor, decide on and carry out a
project that you would do around the house that would
benefit the family. Submit a report to your merit badge
counselor outlining how the project benefited the
family.
- Plan and carry out a project that involves the
participation of your family. After carrying out the
project, discuss the following with your merit badge
counselor:
- The objective or goal of the project.
- How individual members of your family participated
- The results of the project
- Do the following:
- Discuss with your merit badge counselor how to plan
and carry out a family discussion.
- After this discussion, plan and carry out a family
discussion to include the following subjects:
- How to avoid the use of drugs and drug abuse
- Understand the growing-up process, how the body
changes and making responsible decisions dealing with sex
- Personal and family finances