My troop is Brownies and Junior and for reasons of no interest to any of you, we have one fifth grade Junior, eight fourth grade Juniors and six second grade Brownies. If you review this blog you'll see that for the last two years I've run joint meetings for Daisies and Brownies, relating Daisy petals to what the Brownies were doing. It worked well, but resulted in a very leader-directed group. While I polled the girls about the badges they wanted to do, in order to make things work for both groups, I was the one making most of the decisions.
I wanted to change that this year, however, I didn't want to commit myself to running two troops The compromise I reached, in part due to my desire to meet outside due to Covid, was to continue to have one joint meeting per month on the same night when we have always met, and one meeting per month on Saturday morning when I split the troop and meet with the Brownies at 10 and the Juniors at 11:15. My goal is to make the Saturday mornings much more girl-led.
