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2 of those five aren’t even a concern. As someone said, scouting was always classically conservative, in the sense of service to community and country, not in the MAGAt sense.
- How is there an objection to waiving registration fees for families of service members? They already waive fees pretty much on request if you have a good argument that you can’t afford them
- military merit badge? I don’t see any details but merit badges are always optional and priestess by the scout. That Elwood serve many scouts, and everyone else would ignore it.
Separation from f genders is exactly how I left scouts but I don’t know if anything changed. Cubs were together and more family oriented, scouts are generally expected to bring a parent to camp outs. But the troop was separate campsites for boys and girls. That part seems unchanged
The gender scare thing is mean spirited and despicable, very much against the ethos of scouting. I’d expect most scout leaders to ignore it, not that it helps individuals
Rejecting the dei merit badge is the other charge very much against the ethos of scouting. However I don’t remember that existing for my kids. If it’s any mitigation, at least it’s one without tradition.
Scouts are very much not religious. They do mention god in the oath, and value a moral guiding force. But it’s up to you if you want to pursue something for your beliefs with your religious community. I don’t recall there ever being anything religious or for a specific religion within scouts itself
Every major belief system dies have a merit badge but you choose to pursue them outside scouting. admittedly nothing specific to atheists, but there’s no reason you need to follow any and most scouts didnt
Fantastic! I do sometimes miss it, but I miss a lot about their childhood.
Is it allowed to say something good about Reddit? Long after my kids grew out of wanting to be read to at bedtime, we would take turns reading and discussing r/aita as something both enjoyable and discovering wisdom in complex social interactions. I miss that too, but my kids are in college now so even if we were still on Reddit that would no longer be happening
I could never go back to cable and don’t understand what too me so long to cut the cable (yay COViD? For pushing me over that edge). But there are still a lot of people with a lot of inertia. I assume cable companies are just trying to hold onto their remaining customers long enough to build more profit into their internet offerings.
They may also be preying on their elderly customers finding it difficult to make the paradigm jump to streaming
That being said, streaming has a gap in local broadcast coverage that’s more easily filled with cable
- not everyone can, or is aware they can use an antenna
- local streaming like Hulu is expensive
- sports streaming is expensive plus per sport
- I rarely miss local broadcasts, with only a few exceptions such as presidential debates and the Super Bowl
Any kid may do this in an unfamiliar environment
We only took a little one once, at an age when nursing is a great distraction plus made him sleepy. Otherwise, we drove or didn’t travel longer distances.
The reality is any kid may misbehave in such a scary environment. You may think the parents are entitled or poor parents when they don’t do something about it but the reality is in an airplane your options are limited