[RonF]

See if he might like the Boy Scouts. But be aware that we'll need some help from either you or your husband. The thing we most often need is adult leaders, someone who can show up at meetings and campouts. If your husband can make the weekend campouts, that'd be great!

But we also need people on the unit committee, handling the treasury or the publicity, buying the badges and keeping track of who's got what advancements, getting newsletters out to the parents, calling the State Parks or the other places we go camping to reserve sites and all that, and all the other committee jobs.

Then there's the short-term committments; organizing the annual pancake breakfast or Christmas wreath sale. In any case, call your local Boy Scout Council (generally in the yellow pages, or go to the BSA web site and put your zip code in the Council locator) and find out where the local Troops or Packs are. 1^st through 5^th grade is Cub Scouts, 6^th (or 11 years old) through 12^th grade is Boy Scouts.

And if you really like the Boy Scout kind of program, and any of your girls are 14 years old or in High School, they can join Venturing, which is co-ed.

[luckystarmom]

That is the problem with Boy Scouts (even Cub Scouts). The den disbanded, and they needed another den leader. Besides my son I have twin girls. I'm already a Brownie leader. I can't be active in both girl and boy scouts, so we stopped doing Cub Scouts.

When the girls are old enough to stay at home by themselves, then it might be easier to do Boy Scouts.