We moved to Oklahoma and my daughter joined a girl scout troop in our area. Shes enjoyed being in the troop until this year. I paid for my membership to be adult member/assistant troop leader and have done everything the leader has asked me to do. This year, was daughters first cookie sale and she sold 600 boxes. The leader kept making comment of how exhausting this year is since we did over 15 cookie booths which my daughter and I were at all but one booth as was her daughter. She said how one of her parents "took over" as cookie coordinator last year and did everything and all she had to do was show up. I signed up as her cookie coordinator this year and told her since I was new to the whole cookie thing, that I would not take over the entire operation but would do the booth scheduling, set up, take down, box pick up etc. She would handle the money, paperwork, etc. And that next year, I will know what to expect and I can "Take over it all" meaning the cookie sales. She blew up at me and yelled at me in front of girls and a couple teachers and parents who were witness to accuse me of saying I was plotting to take over her troop when I was talking about cookie season. My children are home schooled and we meet at the local public school and because my husband works, my son comes to the weekly meetings. He sits quietly in the back of the room and plays on my kindle as to not be a distraction to her meeting. We,including my son, went outside to work on a "get active" badge and exercise. When we finsihed as we were headed back to the building, my son said he needed to use the restroom and so I stood at the door and watched him go to the restroom location. The leader then made me out to be this neglectful parent stating that he is unsupervised and made comment in front of the entire troop that a responsible person supervises kids and when I told her that I know exactly where my son is, that he got my permission to use the restroom and I watched him go to the restroom and I can see him come out of the restroom, she replies "well I didn't see that" and acts snobby and did not even apologize then at the conclusion of the meeting tells me that my son plays on the kindle and throws it in her daughter and her face that we have electronics and they don't. First of all, my son doesn't utter a peep during the meeting and he stays out of the way and the kindle is on silent. I explained that I did not appreciate being made out to be an irresponsible parent in front of the girls and did not deserve that while this was going on, her daughter went over to my son and wrote on the kindle "X BF" and circled it and told my daughter that she was her EX Best Friend which hurt my daughter's feelings as the girls have been friends off and on as girls do but then the leader tells my daughter who is crying by this point "what is your problem and what do you want me to do to make it all better" and my daughter sees that her leader is angry says "Nothing" and her leader says well "Nothing is what I'm going to do" and if your mother wants to stay home and not come to the next booth and do nothing" that's fine too" she is screaming by this point. WHAT THE HELL?! Where is this crap coming from? Why is she attacking me and my kids when I have personally done nothing but try to help her out all year? My daughter and her daughter were having a spat as they've done in the past and worked it out but now her mom is attacking my daughter for being upset and attacking my son for bringing a kindle to keep busy which is something he's done for months and now its a problem?! And then accusing me of trying to take over her troop? So I politely and very calmly told her (even though I wanted to scream back) that if she has a problem with me or my children and feels that it is necessary to attack us for no reason that I would finish out the year and be done once the year concludes. We get outside to my vehicle and she walks to my truck and points her finger at my daughter who is now sobbing into my side and I am trying to comfort her. Tells my daughter "Yeah your mommy is going to mommy coddle you and this whole mess is all your fault and if I lose my friend and helper, I hope your happy." what kind of person treats a child like that? What kind of leader and example is this? Seriously? We had the Powder Puff Derby for the troops this past weekend and we had a chili cook off which was judged by local firemen. One of the fire men's wives attended with their children and while we hadn't said it was time to eat, she and her children ate. My daughters leader makes the comment to this wife "Well don't we think we've got special privileges today?" OMG I was so embarrassed. But its comments like this we deal with all he time
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