No Disappointments Here
Our Service Unit is located in a rural section of Northern California. As of October 1st we are no longer Konocti Council. We are now GS of N. California. Which makes us even more rural from the rest of the Council? Fifteen years ago I was a GS Leader for my older daughters’ troop. We had approx. 25 troops at that time. The SU meetings always consisted of 15+/- leaders. Now I am a leader again and it is so sad. We have approx. 7 troops now. The Girl Scouts in this area are dying off.
Last April one leader suggested that we put together a party for Spring Registrations. Myself and another leader said we are interesting in helping. We meet every Tuesday for a month planning. On our last meeting prior to the event we decided that this was a really good idea and proclaimed ourselves the “Events Committee.”
We whipped out a calendar and choose dates and named events for the up coming year. We are planning one event for September through June.
Our intention is to keep Girl Scouts alive in Ukiah. One additional reason for these events is because our Council sets a min. number required for events to take place. Many events are cancelled through out the year. One of them was a bridging ceremony from Jr. to Cadettes. Word has it that they were short less then 10 girls. It starts to become very disappointing when events are planned and then cancelled. How are the girls to remain inspired if they are constantly being disappointed?
So our events will never be cancelled. No matter how many scouts show up.
Last April one leader suggested that we put together a party for Spring Registrations. Myself and another leader said we are interesting in helping. We meet every Tuesday for a month planning. On our last meeting prior to the event we decided that this was a really good idea and proclaimed ourselves the “Events Committee.”
We whipped out a calendar and choose dates and named events for the up coming year. We are planning one event for September through June.
Our intention is to keep Girl Scouts alive in Ukiah. One additional reason for these events is because our Council sets a min. number required for events to take place. Many events are cancelled through out the year. One of them was a bridging ceremony from Jr. to Cadettes. Word has it that they were short less then 10 girls. It starts to become very disappointing when events are planned and then cancelled. How are the girls to remain inspired if they are constantly being disappointed?
So our events will never be cancelled. No matter how many scouts show up.
2 a snitching:
This is very true. Right now in Ukiah Girl Scouts are on an upswing. We have several ladies (including your very own Sandi) who are excited and enthusiastic about Girl Scouts and growing in the Ukiah area. Jacque is doing an awesome job for us. And we just hope that all of our events will be well received, because frankly, it is not about us, but about our girls! We are teaching them to be good citizens and good friends, and there is nothing they will ever learn that is more important than that.
Think about it this way. Take a length of toilet paper 100 squares long, this is your daughter's life. You will die before her, rip of 25 squares (leaves 75 squares/years) she is now 10 (or however old) rip of that many squares (now down to 65) she in uder your roof until she is 18 rip off 57 squares) leaving you with 8 years, with your daughter, un doubtedly she will stop thinking that you are her world when she is 16, you are now left with 6 years (of that 100 squares we started with) THESE are the most precious years you have right now, to be there for her and teach her to be a good citizen, and be helpful. Don't squander these years they will be gone soon enough, enjoy them and enjoy your daughter, help whenever you can in her activities. Don't lose what you have left!
We seem to have lots of interest at the start of the school year, but no one wants to lead, then the times chosen don't fit into their schedule, and if it does, they want to just sit back and do nothing because they view the troop leaders only as babysitters. The grades that only have 1 or 2 interested can't find a troop willing to take them in, and we had between a quarter and a third of the troops in our service unit not come back this year.
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