Tossin Cookies

So I havent really been writing all that much - I should since I am on the PC looking for a job like EVERY DAY! I am really trying to figure out if I should allow my daughter to join girl scouts again - this may seem like a question all you moms out there would say "why not" - "what's wrong with girl scouts" - those are good questions but you dont know my plight.

Picture it - late spring of this year....I actually decide to interact with my neighbors. I mean our kids did go to school together and they are cool people. My daughter has never had the opportunity to do "kid stuff" because I was single mother, full time student and full time employee for 6 years. So when I saw the chance for her to join girl scouts - I jumped at it.

I was all gung-ho ready to put what skills I had to use to further the advancement of girl scouts and to help our girls become what the GS model promotes" Courage, Confidence, Character. But when I joined this particular troop it was nothing but Chaos, Cravenness, and Chilly attitudes. Ok - so I had one of the chilly attitudes.....anyway there is something to be said about having to many hens in the chicken coop.

The parents of this troop could never agree on anything. There was always one parent objecting to the ideas of the troop as a whole. I always thought that girl scouting was about community and learning and growing. But we never did that......we spent more time having meetings to fret over the "feelings" of the parents than planning things for the girls. It was awful. I had created this Girl Scout site for our troop on Ning for all the parents to join up and keep in contact with us and post up pictures - it was a wonderful site.

But I just kept bumping heads with our troop leader..........it was weird. Answer me this - if I volunteer to keep a site updated with our information and I am also a troop leader, then what does it matter what content is posted as long as it advances our troop? But that was a problem - "please take down the parent packet - parents may not come to meeting if we post up all the info online", please change this part in the parent packet (that I put together mind you as well as edited) because parents dont really think this way and blah blah blah blah. WHEN WAS IT EVER GOING TO BE ABOUT THE KIDS?

For me I just got tired of all the bickering and angry emails among moms and quit the troop cold turkey and even deleted the website I created on ning. Ok - that was mean and looking back in retrospect I should not have deleted the account but how else was I going to cut ties to them - I mean the account was in MY name for crying out loud - ok, ok - it was wrong - go chuck a cookie.

So I would like to just start all over again with the Girl Scouts and start a troop at my church.....at least then people wont curse at me.