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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So if you were a GS leader, how would you handle this situation?  I'm a Scout leader of 5th grade girls and I can already see this dynamic happening.   We have some girls who just gravitate towards each other, but can end up excluding other girls.  I don't know why they are excluding certain girls but I presume it has to do with their perceived coolness or whatever.   When they were in second or third grade they would respond to "Remember we are sisters to every Girl Scout" but they are older now and more socially savvy.   If I have to step in and remind them to be kind to Mary, that is singling Mary out as someone who is in need of help.

Of course we try to mix the girls up unobtrusively as much as possible, but it doesn't seem to be building friendships.   If Sophie and Meghan are best friends and don't really get along with Mary, making them work with her isn't necessarily going to make them get along better.

I'm not exactly trained in all this social dynamic stuff.   I'm a volunteer, my troop has 16 girls, and we only meet for about 3 hours a month!  I hate to think girls will drop out because I was unable to manage the cliques, but if all we do is talk about girls feelings and not being left out, we'll never get anything done.   And anyway I'm to convinced that talking about things will change anything.

Any ideas?  You moms who pulled girls out of Scouts due to cliques... what would you have done differently had you been the volunteer leader?   How much time would it have taken?[/quote]

Can you meet more frequently or do more activities together as a troop?  It's tough to form a good group dynamic if you are not together as a group very often.  [/quote]

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