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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does she participate in school year Girl Scouts if you don't have time to volunteer?[/quote]

She could help at weekend camping trips once they start taking those. Or, whatever trips they do on the weekends - hikes, museum trips, etc.
[b]Though Girl Scouts often ends up being lame and just sitting in a room doing crafts after school instead, so I don’t have high hopes.[/b] Nowadays your girl can possibly join the Boy Scouts and do weekend trips or just be on the lookout for better GS troops that do activities on the weekends.

The Boy Scouts manage to include working dads, the Girl Scouts should start adapting more, but that’s totally up to whoever is running the troop. The Girl Scout troops are sometimes run by women who don’t particularly want to include working moms (& want them to feel bad about it). [/quote]

The bold is unfortunately true for some troops but not all, and if your child's troop is like that and your child isn't into it -- please find her another troop! Parents often think their girl "has to" be in whatever troop meets at her school, after school, but that is not accurate. Any troop, at school or not, that still has room can take any girl. Some troops camp a lot; some craft a lot; some do both; some do a lot of badges which can be very cool if the girls and leader choose cool ones. So don't stay stuck in a troop if your DD doesn't like it. Your GS Service Unit can help you find other troops.

If a troop is "lame" have you tried to help out? Looked up less lame badges and said you'll lead the work on one badge? (I know one troop had parents take turns shepherding badge work.) Helped the leader look into field trips? Said you'd go camping with the troop so the leader has enough adults to meet GS safety ratios?

Girls who stick with GS into MS and HS get to do amazing stuff if they want. That's the key-- they have to know what's out there. Parents as well as leaders are able to go to the Council site and see all the activities for girls of all ages and some activities are open to individual girls, not just whole troops. If "crafts after school" is not what you want for your younger kid from GS, you can seek out other troops, and if your DD stays in GS - or even if she leaves and comes back later, because girls can join at any age or grade -- she will find the coolest stuff is out there. But you need to be engaged too. 
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