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[quote=Anonymous]I was a troop leader for my girls when they were in Daisies in kindergarten. It’s really hard because the lessons provided by GS are minimal, boring, and always feel like they’re for younger kids than the age you’re working with. The only money you have to work with before you do cookie sales the first time is what you’ve collected in membership fees. You try to keep membership fees down because you don’t want any girl’s financial situation to be a barrier to participation. There are extremely rigid rules for any activity that involves actually going anywhere because of liability issues. Did you know you have to have a designated first aid person accompany the troop? There’s extra paperwork that has to be submitted if the troop will cross state lines, even if the destination is only a 30 minute drive from everyone’s home elementary school. We tried to do a fun craft at every meeting. That only happened because I spent hours diligently searching the internet for crafts that could be completely quickly by little kids with minimal help and inexpensive supplies, which I paid for out of pocket.

To have a troop that does really awesome things, you will need to pay a higher membership fee until you’ve been through cookie sales a few times, you’ll need a couple cookie selling all stars, you’ll need to require parental involvement from all families, with various responsibilities delegated, and you’ll need the person/people in charge of outings to be willing to jump through hoops to make them happen. By our third year of scouting, we had some money and had figured out how to delegate: each family was responsible for leading at least one meeting, and each family had to take on one of the following responsibilities: procuring and distributing cookies during sales, managing the money during cookie sales, supervising booth sales, being the general money manager, attending the monthly informational meetings for area troop representatives, planning and executing outings. That was when we got more active.

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