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[quote=Anonymous]Some background - DS is a somewhat anxious and quirky 3rd grader who has a bit of trouble making friends - he does have a few friends at school, but many activities that other boys like (sports) are not for him, and he's reserved about joining in in social situations that may be noisy or disorganized, even if no sports are involved.  For the past 2 years, he has done cub scouts at his school.  He seemed to have fun at the meetings, though on a few occasions he initially said he didn't want to go, he cheered up and joined in with the other kids as soon as we got there.  Well, this year, DH has taken the position that he doesn't want DS to do scouting because it is too disorganized and DS runs around too much and acts silly with the other boys - which is exactly why I want DS to do it in the first place.  DH also complaints that it is too tiring for him to take DS to scouts, and unless I can promise to take him to every meeting (which I can't due to my work schedule) we should not sign him up.  DS says he would be ok with either going or not, he doesn't have a strong preference.  But if DS drops out, his only extracurricular would be a chess club outside of school, which, while fun, doesn't help him socialize with kids at school.  I am really just absolutely disgusted with DH about his laziness and unreasonableness about this, and his selfishness in refusing to take DS to this activity, which I think is helping him.  On the other hand, scouts, at least in our troop, seems to be a father/son based activity, so if Dh refuses to support DS in it, maybe there is no point.

Should I:
1) Just let it drop, since DS says he doesn't care
2) sign DS up and take him to as many meetings as I am able with my work schedule, knowing that it will be weird because it is mostly dads
3) harass DH into doing it and then listen to him complain about it after every meeting, which I am sure will also diminish any fun for DS?[/quote]

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