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That's the plan!! I have two boys in the pack and I really like both my boy's den leaders. I'll be much happier as a pack parent, life is too short and as much as I was looking to help, there's always the prospect of helping more in the future or moving on to another pack if the issues start affecting my kids.

I appreciate your response to my thread. Update for the interested: I took the approach of bringing the issue up with these persons directly. While the Committee Chair was receptive to the feedback, the Cubmaster has reacted so dismissively and aggressively that there has now been several communications where blatant disrespect has occurred, both in person and through text/email communication. In this evening's committee meeting the topic of respect came up and I vocalized how I felt disrespected, unappreciated, and unwelcome. The response was an eye roll and combativeness - the Cubmaster is not from the US and stated that in his country his behavior would not be considered disrespectful. I'm entirely floored. Both at this behavior and at the Committee for allowing this treatment towards me as both a volunteer and a parent. I've decided I should simply go back to being a pack parent - this is too stressful and the behavior so unacceptable that I cannot allow myself to continue. If this were a job, I would seek another job immediately. If this is Cub Scouts, I want no part of it.

Catching back up on this thread - thanks for the good advice and the insight!! I think I am going to start with the suggestion of addressing it with these two directly; if I were causing an issue I would hope folks would do the same for me, and at the end of the day you all are right: I can always go back to just being a scout parent and switch packs if the issues start affecting my kids.

Maybe....I hadn't thought about looking at that before, looking at it now it looks like there might be. Is that an option for me, to switch Cub Scout packs?

Within the last two months I enrolled my kids in Cub Scouts and found the Pack in our area very disorganized, lack of communication for events, and in general there seemed to be no real plan or program being followed. After attending a committee meeting I saw that there was a dire need for - at the least - proper documentation of committee meeting minutes. Well, my volunteering to do this turned into me becoming the pack secretary. A month later I have been doing the secretary role and then some, just trying to help with events and communicating out to the pack so everyone is in the loop, and I find myself in a very tough position: The Cubmaster and Committee Chair in this pack DO NOT get along. They do not like each other, and often times refuse to communicate with each other and talk negatively about each other. This is frustrating and stressful at face value, but each aforementioned party also looks to me and asks me for help - what they are actually doing is putting me between them instead of working together to plan pack meetings and other events. Both my kids like Scouts so I am trying to stick this out, but the conflicting leadership and their approach is really, really ruining the experience - for myself and for other parents and leaders as well. I'm so new to Scouts and took the committee training but feel I must have missed the part where they go over what to do in this scenario. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Does anyone have any advice? I appreciate any insight on how to navigate this scenario - this isn't like a normal job where you have management and HR. I just don't know what to do with these personalities that refuse to work well with each other and create frustration and confusion for myself and others in this pack!