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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ugh, I'd love to have moms that are willing to help!

I've never met a GS leader that was a mean mom.  If anything, they tend towards the nerdy, slightly socially awkward types.  But always very friendy.

There is a challenge in the junior/Cadette years.  When they are young, they all just play together and it's fine.  As they get older, they develop different personalities and interests and get different friend groups.  That's all fine.  But there are some girls that only want to do stuff with their besties--that's not what GS is about. As a troop leader, I find it hard to tell those girls--no, that's not what we do in GS--this is not a space for you and your 2 BFFs to go off and do your thing and exclude other girls.  We act as a troop.  I think those girls might think I'm being mean, and a lot of them drop GS at that age.  The girls that enjoy GS going forward are the ones that realize that you can have a good time doing stuff with other girls even if they aren't your BFF and even if they are very different from you in a lot of ways.  But it's a hard transition for troop leaders to navigate--you need to balance letting the girls have some agency over their troop and how it is run, with making sure that they aren't just recreating the cliques and social divisions that they have at school.[/quote]

This.  It's not about making girls be friends.  It's about teaching them how to get along with others, work as a team, and have a good time even with people who aren't your best friends.  And I think that it matters whether there is a real focus on doing activities and developing skills, because when you're busy setting up a tent or learning how to start a fire or write code, or engaged in a volunteer activity, that eases the social interactions.  [/quote]

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