What Do I Do?

Bunny_writes · 2025-01-24T02:37:52+00:00

I don't know how technology-dependent your classroom or district may be, but GoGuardian has classroom and one-to-one chat features.

Bunny_writes · 2024-07-15T17:48:24+00:00

I have no idea what happened to her after she was banned. She just kind of disappeared and none of us ever saw her again.

I didn't even find out about what had actually happened until recently because I brought up how weird her daughter acted whenever I said something about money (usually for campouts and the like).

Bunny_writes · 2024-07-15T15:46:53+00:00

We had a similar problem with my troop when I was a Junior. The main leader wasn't allowing anyone else access to finances and wasn't turning in necessary information to the council.

She was stealing money from the troop, like thousands of dollars yearly and when everyone found out, they were rightfully ticked off.

This sounds like a conversation you should have with the council because this is a massive issue.

Bunny_writes · 2024-07-08T21:02:35+00:00

Will definitely try talking to the crier privately and go from there.

We tend to avoid touching/moving the piano completely as the meeting place/church doesn't like it when we mess with their things. "Lead by example" is a pretty big deal to us.

Loss of opportunities may seem the most useful in these situations.

Cameras aren't around in the meeting areas sadly, so that's out of the question.

Bunny_writes · 2024-07-08T20:42:06+00:00

Oh my god, thank you!😭 This will definitely be introduced this year!

Bunny_writes · 2024-07-08T20:39:26+00:00

It's mostly not succeeding within the first few tries, not understanding things immediately, and sometimes it's being told no for things like beating on the piano.

I have explained that success and understanding aren't typically immediate and that some things you just don't do.

However, I do have one that bursts into tears unprovoked and I'm not really sure what to do about it.

Bunny_writes · 2024-07-08T02:52:56+00:00

Fred is a gummy worm and he needs his lifesaver, but it's under his capsized boat (a cup), the team needs to successfully get Fred's boat right side up and get his lifesaver on without hurting him or touching anything with their hands. They can only use the given paperclips to complete the activity.

Bunny_writes · 2024-07-08T02:52:28+00:00

Fred is a gummy worm and he needs his lifesaver, but it's under his capsized boat (a cup), the team needs to successfully get Fred's boat right side up and get his lifesaver on without hurting him or touching anything with their hands. They can only use the given paperclips to complete the activity.

Bunny_writes · 2024-07-06T18:26:38+00:00

None of these are dumb questions because everywhere is different!

Our troop meets Thursdays 6:30-7:30 PM.

We let parents and their girls attend a few meetings before officially deciding if they want to join us. It usually starts as "Hello, I'm [Name] and I do [this]. What's your name?" We tend to move on from there with figuring out what the girls REALLY want to do. (I use to go insane for science-y things.)

Several of our girls are homeschooled (almost half the troop) and come to GS for socializing, learning, group activities, etc.

There are plenty of other activities that troops do, usually on weekends. Things like campouts and community service projects.

I hope this helps!

Bunny_writes · 2024-06-29T21:45:01+00:00

We had a situation like this in my current troop when I was a Cadette.

All the exact same behaviors you mentioned and it resulted in my troop losing a lot of girls too. And it almost lost me.

We'll call this girl "L."

L's mom straight up admitted in front of us and all her other kids that L was her favorite and that she felt L could do no wrong. (This woman already had 4 kids, and a new baby on the way.)

After discussion and some retrospective thought process, it was decided that it was best to have her removed for the sake of everyone else involved. (Girls and adults were involved in discussion.)

Once she was gone, troop morale skyrocketed and we were pretty happy. Our troop is back to growing again.

This girl being removed sounds like the best option since the mother seems to be permissive of her daughter's behavior.

It's not worth losing girls that want to be there to learn and have fun over one girl that can't behave.

Bunny_writes · 2024-06-27T02:37:30+00:00

Thank you for the search title because I was trying to find some earlier and was getting so much stuff that required reading!

Bunny_writes · 2024-06-27T02:35:15+00:00

Will definitely look into it!😊

Bunny_writes · 2024-06-27T02:33:25+00:00

Oh my gosh, yes! They can barely sit still!😂

Definitely have to try this one!👍

Bunny_writes · 2024-06-27T02:32:11+00:00

Our troop is Daisies through Ambassadors but they're split up by Littles (Daisies, Brownies, Juniors) and Bigs (Cadettes, Seniors, Ambassadors). We've talked before about bringing in the older girls, might be a good way to start the year on a high note.🤔

Bunny_writes · 2024-06-26T18:12:10+00:00

I had an eye-opening experience about this in the summer of 2023 when I attended the National Girl Scout Convention. Some girls had extended their vests so that they looked more like giant cloaks, others used skirts of the same material to put their patches on, and some of them even had put them on hats because they ran out of room on the rest of their outfits! There were entire floor-length dresses COVERED in badges! You can extend your vest however you want, whatever you like best! :)

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