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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry I think I was unclear in my last post.  The norm is for girls to share tents with other girls—the adult female volunteers would be generally in a separate tent although you could put two unrelated female adults in a tent with girls.  Unless you have huge tents that gets a little hard so we usually just have 2 girl tents and then however many adult tents for the women.

If your issue is whether the moms will look askance at a dad attending — I think not.  Any woman that doesn’t encourage men to take an active role in their daughter’s life is really short sighted.  Most of us are happy to have active engaged dads because we know that decreases the load on us and also increases the changes our daughters will find good life partners.  Nothing irritates me more than guys who are happy to step up for their sons but won’t volunteer to help their daughters.  Since many of us woman grew up without being taught those outdoor skills, it’s really helpful to have the dads willing to step up here.  My only caveat is that sometimes the dads just want to do it for their daughters — the GS way is that the girls should do absolutely whatever possible, with just enough support for safety and to help them learn.  Like the dads will just put up the tents and build the fire….no, that’s not “men’s work” in GS.  [/quote]

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