Reply to Are Girl Scouts the mean girls?

Forum Index » General Parenting Discussion

Reply to "Are Girl Scouts the mean girls?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Feel free to form your own troop or thank the other moms for doing the work for you. [/quote]

This.
For those who are upset that the pta moms are the ones whose kids are involved, it’s because most troops either need a leader (who do you think that’s gonna be?) or need to operate as a co-op (requires all the moms to pitch in).
If you’re not a “joiner” or “into volunteering” but you still want your kid to participate, then you are a freeloader.
And that’s fine. But just recognize that this means you can either tolerate that your kid will be around mine and daughters of other moms who also happen to donate time to volunteering. In fact, it’s probably at one of these events where we all met and became “cliquey” to begin with! It’s not that we set out to exclude you. You excluded yourself because you self-proclaimed that you aren’t “into” volunteering.[/quote]

I don't know how to do the ***clapping*** emoji here, but I wish I did.  Seriously. I don't even know what a "PTA Mom" really is.  Is there crossover between parents leading our school's PTA and moms leading our schools' various GS troops? Yes. And you know why? Because they are the few, brave souls who come home from a full-time job and still volunteer to help everyone else's kids. If you're not going to join them, can you at least let them seem "cliquey" once in a while if they want to go get a drink together on a weekend or something? This post is so odd.  So sick of parents freeloading and then complaining about everything.  And, no, Girl Scouts are FAR from the "mean girls" at our elementary school. [/quote]

So I posted above that I am a troop leader and don't volunteer all that much otherwise.  I dabble in it when it's meaningful to me.

A PTA mom is someone who makes it their identity to be involved in all the things.  They are the class mom AND the troop leader AND active in the PTA AND planning the school fair AND sign up to chaperone every field trip before anyone else even sees the sign up AND plans the cookie carry.  And so on.

I genuinely believe if some of these women would step back on occasion other people would step in and it would be good for kids and building community.  And if no one filled the gap left, well I guess it wasn't that important after all to very many people.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics