We are in scouts, and she thrives! We were down since March with everything going on, but in-person things are finally starting again Saturday. We are meeting at a local state park for some lunch and badge activities.
I don't lead but I volunteer and help when I can. I have an unpredictable (or couple) health issues that make attending priority planned things an issue if I am the adult being counted on.
Most of the girls in the group are super helpful, but some not so much. Some, I can kinda see where maybe it is learned from the parents, others, definitely the kid is just like that. Same for reverse scenario.
And as for busy, child loves her scooter! And trampoline! But also destroying my living room...
I had to take over a Troop and run it without any Troop committee, or any Assistant Scoutmasters. My predecessor had terminal cancer. It was me, or it was nothing. I was young married, with a five y/o Daughter. The troop was small, very mixed race, and about 60% single parent families. I had been a Scout/Cub myself for five years and an Explorer for another three, a Drafteee Marine for two, and I fell back on my training.
Scouting is(was) about leadership training and vocational training. That was in the 1950's and 1960's and I have no idea what it's about today. I wish it well, but I wouldn't go back today for the Papacy. I left in 2006 when my Wife's health got serious, and Scouting was listing heavily toward the liberal side. I just didn't belong there anymore. None of us did, we finished the Eagle training for the last two Scouts and folded the Venture Crew.
Sometime in the first few years (1972) as a Scoutmaster, I got drafted into be District Adult Leadership Training Chairman. Back then, the basic Scoutmaster course was called Cornerstone. I trained everyone I could entrap into it. But I was neglecting my Troop and still didn't have any adult help....; so...., I gave the senior boys the Scoutmaster training.
Things took off fast after that. We adopted the Troop Junior Leader's Council structure, and each leader had a specific portion of the overall program that was theirs as a personal responsibility. The national calendar endowed each issue of Scouting (for adults) and Boys Life (for the youth) with a coordinated program and schedule from top (National Jamboree), to bottom (troop campouts) with the things in between (District Camporees, Klondike Derbies,etc.) us to the individual District councils). It was all done by the book and all the books were coordinated ten ways to Sunday.
As a Scoutmaster, I no longer had to do all the planning, organizing, scheduling,. and followup. Each Boy leader had a special responsibility, and they all cooperated to make sure each one's goals got met. I was freed up to plot the year ahead, organize parent participation, and help introduce individual scout skills to those with the interests to learn them. The next time one would ask me to teach him that skill, I'd point out the boy I'd trained and tell him, hey, he knows how to do that, go get him to show you. And so on, and so on.
In the midst of this, we avoided the Scout store. Big money for mediocre gear. We built our own gear from my own library of Scout Handbooks and Scout Field Books going back to the 1940's. Think in terms of the archaic. Scout Staff, Scout Sheet (a strong cord), Scout Tarp, Blanket Rolls, Ely Packframe, Diamond Hitch, some surplus like Canteen, Compass, etc.; and we sometimes camped sub-zero.
Our Meetings were Thursday nights. We did this so packs for Monthly Troop Campout could be inspected before departure the next night, Friday. The other Thursdays, we emphasized skills trading. Any Patrol could go on a Patrol Campout IF 1) they had a parent along, and IF 2) I approved their menu. They had to have a written program for the weekend, and the adult was there to check things off and keep things to schedule.
You could never do that today with their paranoid, adults watching adults watching kids watching other kids arguing requirements.
Back then it was find a job, do it, own it, and pass it on. Your first personal responsibility was to train your replacement, so you could move up. Your group responsibility was to each other, to get everyone across that finish line, all in one piece. I don't even now if you could do that today.
My kids are Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers, Drug Interdiction Boarding Agents, Marines ,and Rangers. And Moms, and Nurses, and Special Ed Teachers, and Police Patrol Officers.
Life changes, and life goes on.
If you think inside the lines, the world is small. If you step outside, it becomes infinite.
Greg
. He knows the answer. 
