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Not a leader, but a parent.  At our school in APS, the organizational meeting to identify families who might be interested was in September. Once two parents agreed to be co-troop leaders, it opened for registration, and the troop was formed by late October. The first official meeting was in November.

Definitely leverage other parents! Our troop leaders are amazing, but each family signs up to volunteer at one of the meetings during the course of the year to help lead an activity or help corral the girls since 15 6yr olds can be a lot to handle!  We didn't do cookies our first year. The second year the goal for each girl was one case, which is 12 boxes. That's the bare minimum you need to sell to earn your GS cookie patch.  We did decide to do one 2 or 3hr booth, and the girls loved it as one more chance to hang out together on the weekend.  Again, families signed up for a 1hr shift at the booth but many hung out for most of the time.

It really is what you and the parents make of it. What are your interests, and what do you want out of it for your own daughter? [/quote]

What I want out of it for my daughter is the character-building nature of the program combined with the opportunity to make friends and learn some things she otherwise might not from just our family and school activities. My interests tend toward the outdoorsy (hiking and camping), as well as crafty (sewing, knitting, paper crafts, etc.). I like the idea of helping the girls not only develop their own interests, but also encouraging the idea that you can use your passions to help others (e.g., outdoor activities can include things like cleaning up park areas and learning "leave no trace" principles to respect plants and wildlife; if you enjoy knitting or crochet you can use those skills to make warm winter hats to donate to the homeless or low-income school kids, etc.). I'm also really passionate about kids (girls especially, since socialization still doesn't encourage it as much) learning the life skills needed for independence and self-sufficiency. As much as I'm apprehensive about cookie sales, I don't imagine I wouldn't skip it because I like the idea of the girls really learning about money, planning, and budgeting. I'd want to do activities with them where they use actual tools to build something, so that when they're adults and need a shelf hung or need to a broken door fixed, these skills aren't completely foreign to them and they can have confidence in their abilities to help themselves. That kind of stuff.[/quote]

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