My daughter did girl scouts (Daisy through silver award), and I didn't stay

Anonymous wrote:I thought it was required for cub scouts for parents to stay. In our troop it was.

In GS it is very weird of parents to stay. That is actively discouraged especially for kids that age, unless the child has a special need that the parent is helping with. GS puts a big premium on girls learning to be independent.

Yes they were very upfront that this was now a parent/child program. Not because they thought it would be more fun but because of all the scandals.

I have B/G twins in late elementary. For us, parents generally stay for Cub Scouts but not for GS.

At Girl Scouts, parents don’t usually stay. After Covid, we had to tell parents not to stay.

Are your meetings in a church or at someone's home?

My kids have always had meetings after school, so parents just pick up afterwards (or some kids go to aftercare).

Anonymous wrote:We ask parents to stay for Cub Scout events. Helps with discipline.

What age though?

We are a third grade troop and every parent stays.

Anonymous wrote:Parents always stayed for Cub scouts in my kids troop.

+1 ours too

I thought it was required for cub scouts for parents to stay. In our troop it was.

In GS it is very weird of parents to stay. That is actively discouraged especially for kids that age, unless the child has a special need that the parent is helping with. GS puts a big premium on girls learning to be independent.

Parents need to stay the whole time for cubs. Families camp together.

Scouts for older kids is troop dependent. But generally it’s drop off most of the time but need to stay for one meeting a month when the parents have a meeting.

We ask parents to stay for Cub Scout events. Helps with discipline.

A parent or two will stay to help and keep the adult:kid ratio good, but most leave.

I don't know about Girl Scouts, never had a daughter.

At my Cub Scouts pack, parents were asked to stay through K and 1st grade. After that, parents were welcome to stay (and many did), but we only needed 2 adults for each event so it was ok if some dropped off. By 4th grade most parents dropped off.

Except for the first pocketknife lesson in 3rd grade. I asked EVERY parent to stay for that one.

Parents always stayed for Cub scouts in my kids troop.

Must depend on the troop. Parents never stayed in our Brownie troop. Then we moved and the leaders of the new troop (Juniors) said they were going to try having parents not stay that year, so I guess parents had been staying previously.

My 9yo child is in a Girl Scout troop and every meeting and outing all parents stay. For Cub Scouts, it was mostly drop off or carpooling. This may have had to do with our own family conflicts.