Requirement
5.0.3.1. Requirements one Scout and a counselor can meet are met as written
Required Often forgotten
Ranks, merit badges and any other advancement award. This is the limit on the flexibility, and the Guide states it before it states the flexibility: Lone Scouting is not a place to register a youth simply to make parental approval of advancement easier.
Notes and warnings
Warning. Lone Scouting is not a place to register a youth simply to facilitate parental approval of advancement. The flexibility described below exists for requirements that genuinely cannot be met, not for requirements that are inconvenient.
What this is made of
Where this step comes from
- Guide to Advancement (2025), Section 5.0.3.1 · Requirements that can be met by one Scout with a counselor must be fulfilled as written.