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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t do it. Have her join Girl Scouts and suggest those activities to do as a troop. They can do them too. My son was in Boy Scouts and daughter was in Girl Scouts and the parental involvement that was needed was significantly more in BS. The people involved really had to love it.  If you don’t have an interest yourself, don’t join Boy Scouts. I can think of a million more reasons but that’s the main one. [/quote]

DS has done scouts the last 6 years (cubscouts). Yes it looked like a TON of meetings and things when we first signed up; that was compared to preschool age though.

In practice it's been like this: 
- once a week den meeting - parent must attend but 99% of the time I was just there to "crowd control" my kid & only rarely was I working directly with him on something during the meeting; 
- once a month the weekly den meeting is instead a pack meeting - parent there just to make sure their kids is not a hooligan but nothing required of the parents aside from that; 
- once a month roughly there is a weekend activity - could be camping, scouting for food, hike, educational thing, nature center visit, etc. Parent required but the activity is normally fun (minus Fall camping which sucks because it is cold).

It's not a lot and it's WAY WAY more manageable in my view DS's sports commitments because those tend to be 20+ minutes away multiple weeknights at an early time often vs. scouts weekly mtgs after supper in town or else on weekends. The schedule is just much easier in terms of distance & timing of events for scouts vs. sports.  [/quote]

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