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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really think its a myth that 'stay at home mommies' do all the work and 'working parents' are the problem.   If I think about the certified officials on our team (e.g. stroke and turn/ starter/ ref)  they are all working parents.  Most of them are lawyers :)  Lots of them are dads.  I do think that there is a cultural shift and people are less willing to volunteer.  I also think that many people are burned out by the pandemic and feel unable to do anything.  In a weird way, I think electronic communications have decreased volunteering.  It's so easy to 'sign up' volunteers with sign up genius, etc.  However its not as personal.  Its easy to ignore a sign up genius.  Its harder to say no to someone personally asking you to volunteer/ calling you etc.[/quote]

+1.  I'm our pool's volunteer coordinator and every single one of our certified officials are working parents.[/quote]

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In most of my kids activities over the years, working parents were more involved.

Unpopular opinion - I prefer working parents over those who have been stay at home parents for a while. The stay at home parents just seem to get more easily overwhelmed with planning, technology, and so on.  Working parents are doing this day in and day out so event planning, basic technology, and so on doesn't stymie them. I found it just takes longer and more effort for the stay at home parents to get things up and running. and yes, this is true for even those who run things every year.  It usually because they aren't familiar enough with technology that would make things easier and then when they find it, they don't use it enough to get familiar.  
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