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[quote=Anonymous]Brownie troop leader here - we did one year of Daisies, didn't start till 1st grade.

Recommendations: get parents used to volunteering right away, or you'll get stuck doing everything and all your parents will drop off their kids and run away, leaving you to corral 18 kids between 3 parents.

Get a co-leader who has a slightly different skill set than you do.  I'm the math person who handles all the back-of-the-house business and administration - money, cookies, council obligations, etc.  My co-leader takes the lead on meeting planning.  I choose the meetings I want to take the lead on, she picks her favorites and we brainstorm the others.  She likes the artsy-craftsy stuff; I like the badges related to sports and STEM and money and music/dance.

You don't have to sell cookies, unless someone really wants to.  We didn't that first year.  It's a lot of work for whoever gets suckered into being cookie mom.

The nice thing about individual sales AND booth sales is that you can get an idea from individual sales what cookies to order for the booth sales.  The proportions people buy might be different than what the council says.  And girls do not *have* to sell anything - they don't have to do individual sales or man a booth.  But if they don't do either, they don't get any cookie rewards, and it can be hard to watch 15 girls getting prizes while 1 doesn't.

The daisy petals are pretty straightforward; there's a lot of info online with ideas of what to do for each.

When you get to Brownies, you don't *have* to do journeys if you don't want to.  You don't *have* to do certain badges you find boring.  You don't *have* to go camping.  The troop is what you decide it is; you can choose to focus on certain things.

If you think you might want to do GS sleepaway camps, definitely join scouts.  The discounts on the same camps YMCA uses are substantial.[/quote]

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