Nor should they. They should be out with boys their own age getting dirty and having fun.
Cub Scouts.
“They [boys] should be out with boys their own age getting dirty and having fun.”
You are so right. When I was a kid, boys played marbles, jack-knife, baseball, football, tag, hide and seek, wrestled, and climbed trees, the higher the better. They built forts, and rode their bikes; playeed cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers and ran around with BB guns. In Minnesota the fun thing to do was catch gophers.
Girls did mostly girl things. Jacks, hide-and seek [about the only thing that was intramural], dolls (ugh!). For some reason many girls prefer passive actrivities. Not me. I always wanted to play with my brother because he had more fun, but I never did when there were other boys around as he natuarlly played with them. Still, I liked to climb trees and run too. If my brother had no one else to play with I’d play basketball with him. He always beat me. He beat me at Monopoly too. I think it was in his genes. He became a banker!
Boys and girls are different for a reason. They grow up to be men/dads and women/moms. That’s the way Mother Nature made us. It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!