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Family members and adult friends of registered girls. Leaders are VOLUNTEERS - parents, grandparents, guardians, aunts, uncles, etc., who give unselfishly of their time. Don't forget college students who need a community service project. Leaders do not have to have their own children.

Can one person run a troop?

NO, NO, NO!! Even with just a few girls, there must be a minimum of two adults present, one of which must be female.

1. Each leader must have a support team of Assistant Leaders and INVOLVED Family Members.
2. When enough people pitch in to help at meetings, the pressure is taken off the leader, and your child receives a better program.

A team is a group of people who are sharing together, being unafraid to state honestly what they feel and think, what their problems are and who have discovered a way to communicate all this. They have worked together long enough to include individual differences in their plan. They accept each other. They begin to be a living system that is tuned in to one another. When one hurts, everybody hurts; when one succeeds, all succeed. Everyone is participating in an effort to achieve a common goal so that, finally, others beyond the original group can think and do with them.

1. As you enter the meeting, YOU need to ask what needs to be done: for younger girls -- set-up projects, set up snacks, collect dues, take attendance, hand out materials, collect materials, and for the older girls, guide them in these tasks.
2. YOU need to take the initiative to help guide the girls from activity to activity to avoid chaos
3. YOU need to take the initiative to help collect and put away materials after a project is completed and to help clean up the activity and snack tables, or, with older girls, to help guide THE GIRLS to put away and cleanup.

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