@chrisapallas hit most of the high points. :^)
No. Only a connected parent/guardian account can do that online.
This typically only happens when the parent/guardian has more than one SA Member ID (which you might as a registered scouter and parent). The SUAC folks may be able to identify that as well.
Hopefully not? It’s more common either for folks who are both registered scouters and parents or have moved between councils. In both cases, an individual can end up with more than one SA Member ID, which is like being a totally different person, as far as the database is concerned.
The only way that parents get the email notice/see the scout in my.scouting is if they are connected in the AKELA membership database (not the same thing as Scoutbook/SB+).
The only way to add a connection in my.scouting for the renewal is to have the council registrar make it. Generally, there is one connection between the scout and whichever parent was on the Youth Application (however far back in time that happened), but that email address may have no relationship to whatever email address the parent is currently using. There is hardly ever a connection in AKELA between the parent/guardian not on the Youth Application and the scout without the relevant parent/guardian asking the registrar to make it manually.
Generally, if you post SA ID Numbers (not names, please!), the SUAC folks can at least find out if a parent is connected and which one it is.
ETA:
I’m not sure, because my scout aged out this year, so I didn’t get to experience the whole renewal experience. One of the SUAC might know, but generally the directive from national is that all registration/renewal questions should be routed to the council professionals for support, since they can make contact with the national support teams on this (even if via a relatively slow process of submitting a MemberCare ticket).
ETA2: Here’s the other thread that I think is being referenced:
https://discussions.scouting.org/t/renewal-cub-not-linked/465799/6
