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OldBaldy1701E

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11. My Scout leaders in both the Cubs and the Webelos were female.

Reply to buzzycrumbhunger (Reply #7)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 08:04 AM

Yesterday

They were 'den mothers'. But they were our Scout Leaders. We never saw this as an issue.

(We won't go into the whole 'scared of any male who says they want to help kids' thing, we just had females as our Scout leaders and we did not care one way or the other. Besides, they had the perfect thing to get us to hurry up in certain situations. If we were at the pool, or somewhere that required us to change clothes, all she had to do was yell into the changing room, "Alright, I am coming in there if you are all not out here in thirty seconds!" You have never seen so many boys rush to get dressed after goofing around for twenty minutes in the changing room.)

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