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stevenpiziks) wrote2010-09-30 09:16 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2010-09-30 09:16 pm
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Scouting the Scouts
Got home from the day of long meetings and walked the boys through their daily routine of homework and housework. (Isn't it odd how housework is cleaning and homework is school work?) Then it was supper, and then it was Cub Scouts.
Mackie heard of Cub Scouts at school and really, really, REALLY wanted to join. I don't like the scouts anymore. I don't like their religious intolerance and I don't like their homophobia. Local groups may vary on their stances, but the official nationwide stance is all-God and no-GLBT. But I told the boys they could each have one "thing," and Mackie wanted scouts. So off we went.
When I was in Cub Scouts, they met right after school, meaning my mother could pick me up when it was over (though she was a den mother herself for a while). This group meets in the evening, meaning I have to take him, stay for the meeting, and drive him home, which is rather less convenient. Next time I'll take my computer and write.
It was the first meeting of the year, and the den had four other boys in it. They did introductory stuff and filled out the beginning of a notebook. Today's topic: fill out your family tree. I wondered what to do about this one--put in the birth family or the adopted one? Mackie started in on the adopted one without comment, though.
After a snack and some marching around with flags, it was time to go home.
Mackie heard of Cub Scouts at school and really, really, REALLY wanted to join. I don't like the scouts anymore. I don't like their religious intolerance and I don't like their homophobia. Local groups may vary on their stances, but the official nationwide stance is all-God and no-GLBT. But I told the boys they could each have one "thing," and Mackie wanted scouts. So off we went.
When I was in Cub Scouts, they met right after school, meaning my mother could pick me up when it was over (though she was a den mother herself for a while). This group meets in the evening, meaning I have to take him, stay for the meeting, and drive him home, which is rather less convenient. Next time I'll take my computer and write.
It was the first meeting of the year, and the den had four other boys in it. They did introductory stuff and filled out the beginning of a notebook. Today's topic: fill out your family tree. I wondered what to do about this one--put in the birth family or the adopted one? Mackie started in on the adopted one without comment, though.
After a snack and some marching around with flags, it was time to go home.