We have had 4 Guides leave since we finished for Christmas. We always get this our unit goes in peaks and troughs. Sometimes we can have nearly 30 and at one time we were down to 9! It always worries me because I think we are doing something wrong, but it just seems that when some girls reach 12 Guides is not 'cool' any more.
Guiding has meant so much to me since I was 7, I suppose I feel a little aggrieved that it is not the same for everyone. We have 20 Guides now and they a fun group, we are going shopping, doing a bring a friend night and working on a Mary Poppins and Fair Trade Challenge and that is all before half term! Busy Busy Busy!
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You can't take it personally - I know quite a few 12 year olds have just left my daughter's Guides too, but she's keen to carry on, as are many others and they will be able to start thinking about Baden Powell Award soon.
We had 2 Brownies quit between Christmas and now - one came from out of the area, didn't go to school here either and I was always surprised she stuck it out the two years she did! We tried our best but she never quite clicked.
The other quit because her 12 year old sister had quit Guides. Despite loving Brownies. Her two best friends had left Brownies at Christmas to go to Guides, she had two terms left, and she quit. That one I took more to heart even though I know it was external influences. Still, a chance to pull a few girls off the lengthy waiting list!
We often lose girls around year 4. Never quite found out why but it seems to happen over and over, I guess year 7 is just the next phase of that. Girls will come and go, what is important is that they have the opportunity to experience it and then they can choose. Not everyone will get the same thing from it and many will leave to be dancers or sports woman or swots and some will expand their graffiti and street corner hanging skills but we are there to give them the opportunity, in the end they have to grasp it.
swings and roundabouts love, its them that will miss out
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