The weekly meeting? It was mroe about going over a few things, talking as a group, and mostly leading up to the end of meeting game of football.
Yeah, well, if your dad never showed up to the meetings like
all the dads in my troop (including my own) to give the boys the benefit of wisdom and experience at a crucial time in their lives, then you were basically on a football team with no helmets. Been there. Parents hear "boy scouts" and assume that boys sit around a campfire litstening to ancient stories of heroism told by a wise elk. It has not occured to them that "boy scouts" is about preparing boys for manhood, so maybe the meeting hall should be full of men with no greater concern in their lives than the development of their sons. Wouldn't that be a novel thing!
'Course, it's hard enough to find a father and his son living in the same house except on every third Tuesday and alternate Sundays, so Scouting is pretty much a lost cause.
I'll bet your troop had problems on campouts, too. Moms had to drive and stay in camp, right? Sorry ladies, this is a man thing. Mom's involvement ended with cub scouts. Women shouldn't be around to cook meals and keep the camp tidy. If they are, the boys will never learn that cooking and cleaning are just as manly as chopping wood and hunting. Women in the troop was something that always irritated me.
If you want a good experience for your son these days, you pretty much have to join an AMM group.
