QueenIsabella
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2016
I used to be a leader of a mixed troop, and we never, ever had these kinds of problems with cookie booths. There were other issues, to be sure, but not this one!
One thing we did was sign every willing mom up to be a co-leader (i.e., go through the background check, etc.). This assured that we had plenty of people to man cookie booths, drive to events, and so forth. The mothers would rotate cookie booth duty, and we all tried to keep things fair, in terms of who got to pick out the boxes. The moms would help the older kids make change and generally supervise, but let the kids work stuff out beyond that.
Your real problem here is that the mom is omnipresent, and clearly doesn't "see" her DD's behavior. Because this isn't a child problem, it's a parent problem--a leader should be helping all the girls develop skills. Have you talked with other parents? Have they witnessed this behavior? You might have the best luck with a parents meeting, to discuss cookie booths generally--I feel that, if you were to approach this one mom with specific concerns, she would just shoot you down.
FTR, we did have a brownie troop near us where there was a mom like this (totally into it just for her kid, etc.). They dwindled down to a "Troop of One". But that little girl did get recognized for earning every single Try-It patch, so I guess she was better at being a Brownie than my kid, ha ha.
One thing we did was sign every willing mom up to be a co-leader (i.e., go through the background check, etc.). This assured that we had plenty of people to man cookie booths, drive to events, and so forth. The mothers would rotate cookie booth duty, and we all tried to keep things fair, in terms of who got to pick out the boxes. The moms would help the older kids make change and generally supervise, but let the kids work stuff out beyond that.
Your real problem here is that the mom is omnipresent, and clearly doesn't "see" her DD's behavior. Because this isn't a child problem, it's a parent problem--a leader should be helping all the girls develop skills. Have you talked with other parents? Have they witnessed this behavior? You might have the best luck with a parents meeting, to discuss cookie booths generally--I feel that, if you were to approach this one mom with specific concerns, she would just shoot you down.
FTR, we did have a brownie troop near us where there was a mom like this (totally into it just for her kid, etc.). They dwindled down to a "Troop of One". But that little girl did get recognized for earning every single Try-It patch, so I guess she was better at being a Brownie than my kid, ha ha.