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I'm the Cookie Mom for Lauren's troop - I've been Cookie Mom for one or another or sometimes 2 girls' troops for the last 18yrs.
I'm on my last year - I just can't stand this troop's parents anymore!! As a group of school parents, they are great, but as parents of Girl Scouts they are not!!
When the sales season started, I asked 3 things - one being DO NOT turn in the order form to ANYONE!! E-MAIL ME the order. (I've learned that if I don't do that, they tend to give me the order un-totaled, and then I have to add the totals for 20 girls times 9 types of cookies!!) Well, I have one girl who turned her order in to the leader. SHE lost it. NOW the mother wants to know why I don't have it, and denies being told not to turn it in (I put it in bold on a paper I remember handing to her husband).
AND - while there are 13 girls in the troop, I only have orders for 6 of them. And that's after begging for 3 of them!! So, if you don't count my DD, that's 2 kids' orders that got turned in. I set the dates I needed everything done by, and haven't gotten that at all - I DONE!!
If I could and not feel bad - I'd quit NOW! I just can't take this much longer.
And it doesn't help that Lauren doesn't like scouts anymore. The troop only meets once a month, and only does crafty things. They play no games, go to no camps, have no field trips, and only seem to do what the leader's DD wants to do.
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Tons and tons of and a for you, Cookie Mom is not a job I would like to have either
I ordered Popcorn from the litte boy next door, he is in cub scouts, last October and you knw I never recieved the popcorn, I wonder if he too lost his order form......
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I find assigning snarky names to people in my brain helps. For example - if someone is a whiner, I'll think to myself, "Oh great. Here comes whining Wendy." It gives me a sense of superiority and makes me feel better immediately.
But, you may still need some of these
BTW, Thanks again for your recommendation about GS Cookies, Teresa. I just got my order yesterday, and I was ecstatic! I really appreciate your help!
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that you get through this year. If it was me,
I would turn in what you received and leave it at that. It doesn't sound as if they care to do any GS activities
so they might not care about selling cookies.
As a co-leader for DD's troop, I COMPLETELY hear you on the "want to smack around the parents" thing.
We have 10 girls . . . 4 of them belong to the 3 co-leaders . . . of the other 6, only ONE set of parents has been willing to help with ANYTHING. We've asked all of the parents to help out with cookie booths so that we can earn more money for the troop and therefore the girls can do more "stuff" . . . only ONE mother said she'd be willing to help. All of the others gave some excuse (and what's worse, I have run into a couple of them out and about shopping at times when there is a cookie booth going on for our troop.)
What I have come to find out is that some people don't appreciate the hard work that other people put into things like the cookie sales and such.
Also, as far as Lauren not liking it anymore . . . you might get hold of your service unit or the local council and see about putting her in a different troop. That's how we got a couple of our girls . . . they were in troops that didn't meet often enough and didn't do much when they did, so they moved them over to us. We meet once a week and work on at least one badge and a "fun" patch per month.
Hope you can make it through the next handful of weeks without losing your sanity or pulling all of your hair out!
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