to think Beaver's shouldn't allow girls, as Rainbows don't allow boys?

[CoralRose]

Can't see why it is this way? DS is asking... what's the answer? Why are girls allowed to join beavers, but boys not allowed to join rainbows?

Zombie thread

ZOMBIE THREAD. MOVE ALONG FOLKS, NOTHING TO SEE HERE

So glad you went to the effort of joining MN today, Dave2014, your bon mots are totally to be admired and respected

What a load of old twaddle Dave2014

One of the above statements is true

And yy zombie thread

I think as others have said boys need time to be with just boys!

Think a way to solve it would to be beavers/scouts groups which are mixed so if both girls and boys wanted to go and single sex groups and this to be the same for rainbow/brownies.

I was/ am fairly Tom boyie and probably would have referred scouts to brownies but think boy needs are just as important as girl need to be in same peer group.

Sorry didn't look at the date of the thread!

I think they should allow Zombies in.

Gladvent

Apparently girls gain more benefit than boys from being in a single sex environment - presumably that has something to do with it.

I know it's a zombie thread but the reason that the Scouting movement let girl in was because there were not enough lads who wanted to join the Scouts.

The Guiding movement didn't let boys in because they didn't need to and decided they didn't want to.

To give an example - in the town I grew up in at the point that e rules changed there was 13 brownie packs (all with waiting lists) and 2 cub packs. However, the two cub packs were both too small really so there was talk of merging them. However, in a reasonable sized town with basically no public transport that had huge implications for boys whose parents did not have a car.

Now there are 3 cub packs and 8 brownie packs.

Basically the choice is Scouting with Girls or No Scouting.

What Seeker said

The Brownies sounds like it would be ace. Magic toadstools, elves, pixies and sprites and all that carry on. Did they get Syd Barrett to write the membership handbook whilst off his noggin on acid?

If they are ever short of numbers, the Brownies could boost it with ageing LSD users.

trifle the 1950s called and they'd like their mentality back..

It pisses me off that I was able to send my boisterous, tomboy DD to Scouts, but am not allowed to send my quiet, arts and crafts loving (not rough and tumble type at all) DS2 to Brownies or Guides. The badges and activities at Brownies and Guides would suit him far more than those at Scouts. In the same way, my DD went to Brownies once and then joinedScouts, because SHE is my tree-climbing, rough and tumble loving, boisterous DC.

It should be fair and equal BOTH ways. It's not fair that my DD can go to Scouts when my DS2 can't go to brownies.

My ds has asked the same. In our area one Beaver group was boy only and we put ds in that group for that reason. Now even they accept girls.
Although having said that my dd loves cubs but I do think it is nice that one grup is boy only.