You need to be an adult to do so! Two adults, in fact.

Roles/responsibilities for daisies and first year brownies

Hi all,

I'm a new (as of December) daisy leader and I've been managing a lot of the troop goings on myself. But as we move into next year I plan to hand over responsibilities to parents and, ideally, girls too.

I wanted to ask what age-appropriate responsibilities would be. We'll have 6 daisies and 3 brownies next year (everyone is renewing).

Right now whoever brings snack is responsible for getting it set out, and everyone helps with clean-up. I'm thinking maybe next year a brownie will be responsible to making a snack schedule and reminding folks when it's their week to bring snack. Perhaps another brownie (and her parent) can be responsible for arranging a field trip. And the final brownie can help keep track of who was there for each badge and hand out the physical badges. I'm not sure what to ask daisies to help with.

Thanks!

Why? That's a reasonable amount of canoeing for a day!

I tried looking up Zooatrope and no luck. Do you have a link? 

Thanks for TimeGuessr! That's a cool game :) 

Paddle recommendations

I'm looking for paddle recommendations. I've always rented my canoes and ended up with whatever they handed me. Looking for two paddles (they don't need to match).

I'm 33F, 5'10 and not particularly strong, I usually paddle on flat water for overnight trips of 3-4 days. My partner is 41M, 6'1 and decently strong. He'd likely sit in the back of the canoe with me upfront. The dog does not need a paddle, as she's an endless freeloader.

Any recommendations? We're located in Massachusetts/Ontario.

I would recommend not doing cookies until you have more help to run things. Are your girl's parents affluent enough to afford $5/meeting dues? That can go a long way.

I don't know if this will be a popular opinion, but I'm sharing it with the genuine intent of trying to be helpful.

I think your question is asking for bandaid solutions to a particular instance of a greater problem - "I really care about what other people think" is the problem, and "how do I handle/manage this with respect to girl scouts" is the particular question being posed here. 

I think a good long term solution is to figure out why you care about what other people think, within and outside of Girl Scouts and try to address that. I think that if you work on understanding why you care, thinking about "you can't control what other people think", you'll eventually (within a year or two) get to a healthy place where you don't care! I think (optimistically guess) that most people get there anyway by their 30s or 40s, but life is more enjoyable if you can get there sooner.

If you wanted to undertake this, you know yourself best to assess whether you can do it alone, need an accountability buddy, or prefer the help of a therapist. What I want to share is that I think it can be done and might help you in other facets of life too. 

All the best!! 

  • A childless, goldless, GS volunteer

I'm confident this is the best photo of a fox I've ever seen. It might be the best photo of a fox ever to be taken. 

Thank you for sharing.

I love this idea! I have a troop of daisies, and while we haven't had to buddy up for anything yet, I'll be using this when we do!

In North America, you need to hire without discriminating for gender, race, etc. I've heard that the ideal process would strip the name, photos, and any pronouns from the applications as to make each resume 'faceless', such that people can be invited to interview based on merit and not anything else.

Okay, then you know best! I have friends in central Europe that apply for NA remote jobs, if you find yourself in that boat, you know what to do!

You've gotten some great technical feedback from others which I echo. Here's some general resume feedback 

Remove the commas at the end of lines, that's just not done. Either use periods or nothing.

Use action verbs (past tense for past experiences, present tense for your current role). Google "action verbs resume" to get better examples.

Multimeter, not multimeter. Use a spell checker.

Top paragraph about you shouldn't be a life story, it should be telling me (the employer) what you can do for me. Revise that entire section. 

All the best!

Seriously, HR in North America hates seeing photos on resumes. It's a red flag.

Can you recommend any resources for better managing heap and stack for #2?

Have you shared all this with your parents? I think you should! Gives them an extra kick in the butt to plan their lives when the reasoning behind it isn't an arbitrary deadline. 

Sorry for overexplaining if you've already done this. 

Thanks! This comment prompted my partner, dog, and I to visit the Arboretum for the first time today. It was delightful, and so big!

Such a cutie! Unbelievable shots and such great memories, I'm sure.

If she's got the temperament for it, consider training her as a therapy dog.

I got my puppers less than a year ago and we just got certified :)

Same here - the daisy badge requirements were written by someone who's never met a kindergartner. They just can't sit still for that long. We make our own, realistic curriculum and follow it instead. 

Replace "liberal arts" in your statement with any other field of study and your argument is just as valid (which, in my opinion, is not very - everything can be studied from a book, but the quality of education you get will reflect that).