At Brownies tonight, one of my co-leaders pitched a royal fit and left – 5 minutes into the hour-and-a-half long meeting. She was having “issues” I suppose, and felt like she didn’t need to be there to help us.
Odd thing is, the other senior Brownie leader was out of town tonight too, leaving me and a junior leader to deal with 15 seven and eight year olds — without any specific plans.
Oh, what a night.
We did well, and it was probably better that Her Royal Highness didn’t stay for the night — because it would have only made the situation worse.
I’m not very happy though, with her irresponsibility — especially considering I’ve only been in Guides leadership for less than 6 months.
And while I could leave more sortid deals about how much I’m not very pleased with this individual, I think I’ll leave it at that.
Grrr.
The sad thing is that there are leaders like that all over the world.
I remember one Brownie leader I had was content the let us girls spend a month on popcicle jewelry boxes instead of actively working on Try-Its. Another leader was too concern with her social status as an officer’s wife to spend too much time on a project! All I remember from that year are 4 events. Not very impressive compared to other years.
I hope you and the other leader were able to make the night fun.
You’ve Handled 20 rowdy students before. I’m sure that gave you the training you needed.
Thank goodness I’ve only got a snotty Mom to deal with this year! i got rid of bad leaders a couple of years ago…By transferring to a different unit. That’s why there are no sparks in College Park.