re: Hey Dads of the OT. Any of your kids in Cub/Boy Scouts?

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No, dad and grandfather’s brought me hunting, fishing camping pretty regularly. All country bumpkins and ex military so scouts didn’t have much add. For a city kid not exposed to that, I would think it would be beneficial.

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Scouts teach way more than that. You can get exposed to Engineering/scientific mentors through the Nova program. You can lead and pursue community service projects through all kinds of community programs including our National parks through Scout Ranger. You gain leadership skills because the troop level is pretty much kid run. That’s why picking a good troop is so important, bad troops barely do anything, good troops will be extremely active and push the kid to lead with support from their peers. All the different merit badges teach the kids much more skills than your parent/family could even dream to be as knowledgeable at through merit badge programs.

Sorry, rural family alone can’t even come close to the scale of the program you can get in Scouting if you put effort into it.

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Boys need to be able to have something for themselves but that’s just not allowed anymore.

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It’s allowed and you didn’t look hard enough. Find an all boy pack because cub scouts is the only thing coed and that is pack dependent so there is all girl and all boy packs, all the troops are single gender.

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he wanted to camp out and do outdoors stuff but there just wasn’t a lot of that

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This goes with above, some packs/troops are more active and do way more activities like camping outside the core meetings. Especially at the pack level. Some parents hate camping and so the their packs don’t do it much.