re: Those with boys in Cub Scouts, have a few questions

Both of my kids did Cub Scouts with one good experience and one bad. My oldest had a great group and everyone got along. Youngest’s troop was full of special needs kids so we didn’t stay long. It all depends on the kids and leaders.

Also, note that you’ll need to be able to tolerate the other dads because you’ll be spending a lot of time together.

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Local den/pack has women leaders, and they have boys of their own. Is this common these days?

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My mom was my cub scout leader back in the 80s/90s

My daughter was in cub scouts and is now in all girl troupe. It's a really good group of girls and the scout leader is awesome.

Local leadership is really going to be the main factor. We are lucky that we have awesome leaders.

My 11 year old loves it. Going camping this weekend.

My son was fine with it as it began. It is very dependent upon the leadership. Our pack got very woke and then included girls.
He quickly lost interest as it also conflicted with sports.
His dork Dad was in it for Pinewood Derby. Had too much fun with that.

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Our pack then included girls.

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Don't understand the consternation over allowing girls to be scouts. Our troop has girls and there is no issue.

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It is very dependent upon the leadership

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This is absolutely true.

Ditto with the Trail Life baw. I’m checking it out now for my Son. It’s what the Cub/Boy Scouts used to be.

My mother volunteered to be a pack leader when I was young and interested in it, no men did so she took it on. Though we didn't do cool stuff like hiking or outdoor stuff she did teach the basics from the handbook. And our snacks at meeting were off the hook. Then one meeting my dad had to take over for my mom, he was an attorney and worked late a lot as to why he didn't volunteer. Anyway, come snack time he took all of us to the local burger joint for our snack time. Put mom behind the 8 ball after that.

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daughter in Cub Scouts

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Local den/pack has women leaders, and they have boys of their own. Is this common these days? I was in cub scouts 30 years ago and men were leaders then. Dads are still involved at the den level, and dads are also leaders at the pack level.

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Den mothers have been a thing for a long damn time. Well before the 80s.

BSA is now Scouting America though and moving toward being a family organization. This is following what the Scouting movement worldwide has done. The original scouting in England has been coed for a long damn time.

Scouting is great for kids, but like anything its all dependent on the group you join. Each pack and troop operate very differently from other packs and troops.

I highly suggest you visit several packs and go see their troops as well in you local area. I recently moved my daughter from one pack to another because the change in leadership was unacceptable to me and the troop she would move into would offer a far better experience. They just got back from Portugal and Germany and was always doing lots of trips and adventures. The troop she would have been moved into before barely did anything.

Each pack and troop have their own charter org, so you can get more liberal groups or heavily conservative groups based on the charter org that covers the troop/pack. If you are catholic, look for packs and troops run by catholic churches for example.

I love scouts, I'm an assistant cubmaster for our new pack and love the opportunities it's given for bonding with my daughter that not really any other organization offers. We aren't sports people and GSUSA doesn't really let dads take part in it. There is also plenty of room to still do boys only stuff. Troops are still segregated til next year between boys and girls. Cubs can also be segregated if they want to operate different girls and boys packs. There isn't a requirement that it has to be open to girls. You can make it what you want to make it.

My three boys were involved in Cub Scouts, for 7 or 8 years. As others have said, its not a babysitting service, all parents were involved all the time in my experience. We had zero girls and zero female leaders.

Get involved, I did. Became a Den Leader. Didn't want to but it was rewardiing spending time with my boys. Camping and Pine Wood Derby and Rocket Day are highlights.

Don't listen to the mouth breathers who have had nothing to do with it. Ultimately none of them chose to go to boy scouts, but we have pretty great memories of the scouts.

my son was in until 5th or 6th grade I think. I was very involved and it was a good experience. I think your experience will depend on leadership. for us, it was worth it.