part of the solution, not part of the problem
The woman who leads Rainbows is finishing at the end of this term as her daughter goes up to Brownies. She has been asking for someone to take it over both amongst the RAinbow mums and at the church that the group is attatched to for over a year now adn no one has come forward. My mum has bitched regularly about how people are only interested in taking and not giving and this is just another example of it and how if people do take things on it’s only until it no longer serves their imediate family at which point they dump it. Which is true, I suppose, although I think the problem is that women who are of an age to be able to help out are in the workplace not in the home so much leaving them precious little time for their own family let alone anyone else’s child.
So against this backdrop would you think she would
a) support me for saying that as no one else was going to take it on then I would offer to take on Rainbows or
b) rant at me for over half an hour about how when Aprilia leaves in 6 months or so I’ll be in the same position as Julia because I’ll not want to do it once Aprilia goes up to Brownies will I?
Well, I know she doesn’t believe me because, well, I’ve *never* stuck at anything have I? but actually I didn’t intend to dump the girls once it was no longer solely for my family’s benefit for me to run it. She’s happy to rant over how "people today" won’t take anything on but in the same tyrade she’s telling me not to take anything on! Now I know I’m not the brightest bulb in the box (because she keeps telling everyone so it must be true) but even I can’t see how being part of the solution instead of part of the problem can possibly be wrong???
Sigh, thank goodness I’ve moved on from believing everything grown ups tell me!
You’re a hero T-bird! M’s Rainbow leader is leaving too, in fact next week is the last one, and M is very sad about it but I just couldn’t manage to take it on, despite a few pangs of guilt.
Comment by Jan — June 12, 2007 @ 10:24 pm
but the difference is Jan that I only have 1 child who is (just!) beyond the highly dmeanding toddler phase adn I don’t have a part time job (or play bass for church or do any of hte other million things you already do!) Poor M though
At least she does have other activities she does adn I guess Brownies is only a few years off!
Comment by Administrator — June 12, 2007 @ 10:52 pm