Myxylplyk wrote:

Stop. Tom...Stop...

You agreed to let your son into the Cub Scouts.
You thought there was a value there.
You found out that there was little, if any value left.
Parents are mostly non-participating in den and pack activities.
It's become a quest for patches. A desire to complete the check lists of
mundane activities.
It is what the parents let it become.

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Times change, people change, human nature doesn't.

I was in the cub scouts as an 8-9 year old kid.

About the only thing I remeber was the chase to collect merit badges.

Got to be a total PITA and I dropped out.

As a point of reference, that was 60 years ago.

Lew