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Why don't you pull your son from cub scouts and start bringing him to the Brownie meetings with your daughter?  [/quote]

Girl Scouts isn't family oriented the way Cub Scouts seemed to be.   It was always drop off, and we didn't camp together with families.   Just the leaders and the girls went camping - not all the families, siblings etc.[/quote]

Well start making a change.  Start bringing brothers to girl scouts so you can have all your activities in one place.[/quote]

We don't have the program that boys want.[/quote]

Then make GS more family friendly.  [b]Have the parents attend the meetings with their kids and allow siblings to come and play on the sidelines like they do at Cub Scouts.
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If you have a camp out, invite the GS families to come along.  The GS do their camp out activities and the siblings can be entertained on the sidelines just like they are at the meetings.[/quote]

GS leader -- this is really not the goal of GS.  The goal is for girls to learn independence, and they don't do that by having their family there all the time.   It's one of the main real differences between cub scouts and girl scouts -- the GS focus on the girls being increasingly independent throughout the grade school program.  Many troops do "family camping" trips in addition to "girl camping" trips.  But, for instance, with my GS troop, our last camping trip the girls all stayed in one tent together with no adult, and cooked their food by themselves over the fire (one adult supervising).  I am also a cub scout mom, and my son sleeps in the tent with me and the food is cooked by the oldest boys in the pack for consumption by the younger boys.  The adult-child ratio for cub scout outings is close to 1-to-1, whereas for Girl Scouts it is more like 6-1 or 12-1 (depending on age).  
The GS activities usually specify whether "tagalongs" (siblings) are invited or not -- many times they are, but not always.  It really does change the nature of the program to have families there all the time.  
It should be noted that boy scouts is totally different from cub scouts, as my understanding is that the families totally drop out for boy scouts and it's just the boys.  With GS, it's more of a seamless transition, with adult supervision gradually decreasing.

So, while there are things I would change about GS (like the journeys, which are universally hated and mostly ignored)...I would NOT want to change it to be like cub scouts where the families are there for everything.  [/quote]

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