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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are modeling good boundaries. That’s good Girl Scouting, not bad.[/quote]

+1.
Nearly ever parent in our troop has a volunteer role and if they don't, the leaders ask them for help with specific things. GS does not work well with handsoff parents.

I am not the cookie parent but I've done that Saturday morning cookie pickup sometimes so she can be out of town. That's how a functional troop works.

Also, the girls are supposed to spend down their funds. Your money manager should have required that. Sounds like multiple people aren't engaged here, sorry to say. [/quote]

Agree that this is how it needs to work, and it's challenging with working parents who are used to paying for dropoff activities. My kid was in a troop where most parents (including me) stepped up to handle something, because you have to.

OP, step out of this with zero guilt.[/quote]

I already mentioned this but we don’t live in DMV anymore and do not have a spend down policy- our only requirement is that we complete financial reporting annually. Our money manager is our cookie mom and she follows policy.

I’m not the cookie mom, the cookie mom is the mom of some of the older girls in the troop, and I’m just one of the few people who steps up to help with cookie warehouse drop and sorting. When our younger girls joined the troop, it was agreed by all parents that it would be a co-op troop and responsibility for hosting meetings and doing cookie trainings would rotate, with each parent registering and getting background training and taking one meeting/month. Most parents never bothered with even registering despite repeated follow-ups and I ended up running meetings so the girls would at least be trained for cookie sales and camping. At that point I should have bailed, but my daughter and one of her troop mates were very dedicated and invested and I wanted to make it work for them.[/quote]

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