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[quote=Anonymous]I’m a GS leader.  You need to talk to the parents in troop because each troop has a different vibe.  I think I’m well known as a relaxed accommodating leader that doesn’t impose a lot of requirements on parents.  I pool my parents and my girls annually to see what they want to do differently or the same.  My girls mostly do have a lot of commitments and busy parents (including me) so we make it work with lots of carpooling and flexible scheduling of activities.  It would sort of irritate me if a girl joined and then never did anything with the troop though—especially if I had a waitlist (many troops do).  Our troop generally did one meeting per month which was scheduled at a time when most kids didn’t do activities.  Most girls attended most meetings but everyone skipped one or two due to conflicts.  We also generally did one extra fun activity per month and I’d say we averaged abiut 75% participation at those (if attendance was less than 50%, I’d cancel it). I would say that if your daughter only wants to join because her friends do it, that’s not worth joining.  If she wants to join because her friend tells about fun stuff that she’d like to do also, that is worth joining. [/quote]

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