The influence of Kipling in Scouting is quite considerable not least for being a major influence on the Wolf Cubs and Modern day Cubs so I think it is good idea to remind oneself of what Mowgli was.
Mowgli is a fictional character and the protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories.
He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" and then became the most prominent character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.
Lost by his parents as a baby in the Indian jungle during a tiger attack, he is adopted by the Wolf Mother, Raksha and Father Wolf, who call him Mowgli (frog) because of his lack of fur and his refusal to sit still. Shere Khan the tiger demands that they give him the baby but the wolves refuse. Mowgli grows up with the pack, hunting with his brother wolves. In the pack, Mowgli learns he is able to stare down any wolf, and his unique ability to remove the painful thorns from the paws of his brothers is deeply appreciated as well.
Bagheera, the black panther, befriends Mowgli because both he and Mowgli have parallel childhood experiences; as Bagheera often mentions, he was "raised in the King's cages at Oodeypore" from a cub, and thus knows the ways of man. Baloo the bear, teacher of wolves, has the thankless task of educating Mowgli in "The Law of the Jungle".
The process of learning requires you to accept being taught and otherwise following their rules as you take them to heart and apply that knowledge trusting them and giving your learning its best shot as you begin to grow, learning to take more responsibility for yourself.
To a young Cub, Mowgli is in many ways a great example follow, learning while having adventures.
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