cabanafrau
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 10, 2006
It appears that troop leader and daughter are exactly alike!
In any activity where money is involved, there should never be one family handling it. To protect all interested parties, you should introduce the concept of equal selling time and asking every family to sign up for a selling slot. If you are wanting to handle this without direct confrontation, contact your local council and ask for assistance in your situation. There are many experienced leaders who can attend troop meetings and help steer the leadership back to full participation. Remember, the troop belongs to everyone, not just the leader's family.
Ideally the girls would have voted ahead of time about how cookie proceeds will be spent, how booth participation will be assigned & credit given -- and whether the troop wanted to participate in the rewards or decline them and receive a slightly higher troop profit margin.
When I was a leader for my oldest & just a parent volunteer for my youngest it was hard for our troops to get enough cookie booth location times to allow every girl to have a shot at even participating in booth sales. As girls got older & therefore eligible to participate in a wider range of sports and other activities it became harder for girls to mesh their schedules with available cookie booth times so it wasn't uncommon for a few girls to do the lions' share of booth sales, which was understood going in. The girls resolved it themselves by making the decision of how to assign credit. Once the ridiculous prize rewards weren't a part of the equation they really didn't care much about sales credit anyway.