Girl Scout Hell
Wow being a Girl Scout leader sure is hard. The kids are adorable, cute and great. The parents (moms) and their personalities - guh!
Ok. I said I had to form a coup on the Girl Scout thing. Here is the deal. I signed my daughter up for girl scouts at the beginning of the school year. We did not hear anything until late October about a troop. The leader called for a parent meeting on the night I had to coach a soccer game for my older daughter and a pizza party after. My good friend was the co-leader and she said don't worry about going to the meeting she would get all the forms for me.
At the meeting they voted on the days/times for the meetings. They decided on Thurs. and my daughter can't do Thursdays. Thursday after school is literally the only time we can not do it. I called the leader and asked her to reconsider. It turns out she was only willing to consider 3 hours a week. She home schools her kids and works full time. Guh! If you are that busy you should not be leading the Girl Scout troop. So anyway I formed a coup and invited 2 girls from that troop and 4 more girls to join.
My friend agreed to move her daughter over and be the leader if I would be the co-leader. All the girls decided to do it. Then one of the moms calls me and asks if we are capping the troop or if others will be added. She said she did not want any girls added or she was not going to do it. I told her that the leader and I did not want any more girls and we would consult with everyone in the troop before adding.
So, the week after our first meeting (this week) one of my sort of friends and neighbor calls me and wants her girl added. She had found out about the troop and wanted in. It turns out she is best friends with mom who wants the troop capped. I think, "that's weird she is intentionally leaving out her best friend." So I talk to the mom who wants the troop capped and she says she does not want this child in the troop because none of the other girls play with her. She says that her best friend has been complaining to her and all her other friends that their daughter does not play with hers and they are leaving her out. She says that there is nothing wrong with the child but that she is different from the other girls and they don't want to play with her. She does not want to force her daughter to play with her.
So I talked to my friend, the troop leader and tell her about it. We decide we better tell this person she cannot add on the grounds that we are new leaders and we don't want any more kids. Nothing personal.
Well, then the best friend gets guilty for leaving her out. She does not even have the guts to call me. She calls another mom and tells her she is riddled with guilt and can she call me and tell me that it is up to myself and the leader they don't mind if we add. So now it is on us! Great. So I talked to this lady for a while and she ends up telling me that this new girl and one of the girls already in the troop had a throw down on the playground at school. New mom accused a girl in our troop of shoving her daughter to the ground on the playground. Ok, I have met the accused. She is totally shy, quiet and shy. There is no way I believe that.
Now my friend and I have to decide if we add a child with a mom that may yell at us all year or leave a child out of girl scouts. What would you do???
Uuugghhh!
Ok. I said I had to form a coup on the Girl Scout thing. Here is the deal. I signed my daughter up for girl scouts at the beginning of the school year. We did not hear anything until late October about a troop. The leader called for a parent meeting on the night I had to coach a soccer game for my older daughter and a pizza party after. My good friend was the co-leader and she said don't worry about going to the meeting she would get all the forms for me.
At the meeting they voted on the days/times for the meetings. They decided on Thurs. and my daughter can't do Thursdays. Thursday after school is literally the only time we can not do it. I called the leader and asked her to reconsider. It turns out she was only willing to consider 3 hours a week. She home schools her kids and works full time. Guh! If you are that busy you should not be leading the Girl Scout troop. So anyway I formed a coup and invited 2 girls from that troop and 4 more girls to join.
My friend agreed to move her daughter over and be the leader if I would be the co-leader. All the girls decided to do it. Then one of the moms calls me and asks if we are capping the troop or if others will be added. She said she did not want any girls added or she was not going to do it. I told her that the leader and I did not want any more girls and we would consult with everyone in the troop before adding.
So, the week after our first meeting (this week) one of my sort of friends and neighbor calls me and wants her girl added. She had found out about the troop and wanted in. It turns out she is best friends with mom who wants the troop capped. I think, "that's weird she is intentionally leaving out her best friend." So I talk to the mom who wants the troop capped and she says she does not want this child in the troop because none of the other girls play with her. She says that her best friend has been complaining to her and all her other friends that their daughter does not play with hers and they are leaving her out. She says that there is nothing wrong with the child but that she is different from the other girls and they don't want to play with her. She does not want to force her daughter to play with her.
So I talked to my friend, the troop leader and tell her about it. We decide we better tell this person she cannot add on the grounds that we are new leaders and we don't want any more kids. Nothing personal.
Well, then the best friend gets guilty for leaving her out. She does not even have the guts to call me. She calls another mom and tells her she is riddled with guilt and can she call me and tell me that it is up to myself and the leader they don't mind if we add. So now it is on us! Great. So I talked to this lady for a while and she ends up telling me that this new girl and one of the girls already in the troop had a throw down on the playground at school. New mom accused a girl in our troop of shoving her daughter to the ground on the playground. Ok, I have met the accused. She is totally shy, quiet and shy. There is no way I believe that.
Now my friend and I have to decide if we add a child with a mom that may yell at us all year or leave a child out of girl scouts. What would you do???
Uuugghhh!
posted by Trisha at 6:14 AM
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