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[quote=Anonymous]We have a large mixed age troop. I act as the leader of the troop and then we have three assistant leaders. I'm mostly responsible for the overall organization of the troop -- scheduling, registration, volunteers, etc. I also plan meetings for the age group that my daughter is in -- which is the oldest group. The assistant leaders plan activities for the younger groups. Because we've been at it a while, we recycle a lot of activities and field trip ideas from year to year.

We have meetings all together every other week. We get together in a circle and say the Pledge of Allegiance, and the GS promise, and sing a song. We quickly talk about what the different levels are going to do or the girls share about a trip GS activity they did with each other. It's actually very sweet to have all the different ages together.  We then break up and each level does their own thing. In addition to a leader, we also have a parent volunteer for each group to help.

We do some activities, like Cookie Booth sales and World Thinking Day, all together. It's great to see the older girls help the little ones. Our troop didn't intend to be a mixed age troop, but because a number of the girls had younger sisters who wanted to be Girl Scouts, for ease of scheduling for families, we just added them to our roster and went from there. [/quote]

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