If your daughter is in Girl Scouts

[AHappierHour]

What time are your meetings?

DD1 is a brownie and over the summer they started a new troop. The troop meeting were EO Tuesday at 5:30. Now that school has started they changed the start time to 6pm. This seems so late to me. My kids go to bed at 7pm. Now she won't be getting home till 7:15 and then we have to do our nightly routine. If this was a Friday meeting I wouldn't mind but in a Tuesday this seems too late to me.

[themysteriouswife]

4pm the 1st and 3rd Wed. I would rather it be later to accommodate working families.

What I have learned as a GS leader is you cannot please everyone. You have to do what works for you and the other leader.

[MDmomof2]

Our meetings are 3:30 to 5:00 every other Thursday. They meet right after school in a classroom and will take the girls down to after care if they go there. It's very convenient for me!

[eb777888]

This is so weird! We're putting David in Cub Scouts and the first meeting is next Monday at 7pm. That is LATE! We put David down at 8pm, lol.

[Patsy Stone]

Last year the meetings were at 6:30. My kids don't go to sleep until around 8:30 though.

[AHappierHour]

Sept 6, 2016 10:15:20 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

This is so weird! We're putting David in Cub Scouts and the first meeting is next Monday at 7pm. That is LATE! We put David down at 8pm, lol.

I'm worried that my DD will be hyped up and it will take her forever to bed and then be a hot mess the next day.

[eb777888]

Sept 6, 2016 10:16:49 GMT -5 AHappierHour said:

Sept 6, 2016 10:15:20 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

This is so weird! We're putting David in Cub Scouts and the first meeting is next Monday at 7pm. That is LATE! We put David down at 8pm, lol.

I'm worried that my DD will be hyped up and it will take her forever to bed and then be a hot mess the next day.

Exactly! I mean, we'll survive but I bet we don't get him to bed until 9, then he'll be wound up and probably won't go to sleep until 10. David is a kid who needs almost 12 hours of sleep a night. We'll see how it plays out. 

[eb777888]

Sept 6, 2016 10:17:18 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

If it was earlier it would be really tough for working parents.

I do not know anyone IRL who puts their kids down before 8pm so I am always shocked by any earlier bedtimes.
7 seems so early, especially for school age. Most of the elementary schools start no earlier than 8am around here. I think maybe even 8:30 or 9.

Yeah, we stayed up way later when we were kids (me and my sisters) but David is SO TIRED when he doesn't get at least 10 hours of sleep. It used to be later but we moved it up as we could just tell he was tired and red-eyed. It used to be 9, then 8:30, now 8. At some points last year we put him down at 7:30. It does seem crazy early to me, I know.

[AHappierHour]

Sept 6, 2016 10:17:18 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

If it was earlier it would be really tough for working parents.

I do not know anyone IRL who puts their kids down before 8pm so I am always shocked by any earlier bedtimes.
7 seems so early, especially for school age. Most of the elementary schools start no earlier than 8am around here. I think maybe even 8:30 or 9.

Our school last bell is 7:55am, we leave at 7:30 and they are at school at 7:45.

ETA- she is also my child that is the worst in the morning. Slow getting up, cranky, gets distracted easily. It's even worse on days she doesn't get enough sleep.

[tigress]

Its hard for us to get our kids anywhere before 6:00pm. If we don't get off of work until 5 then we need to pick up kids from 2 different places. I prefer at least 6pm if possible.

[dale]

I'm a Cub Scout leader and I was encouraged to hold meetings at 7 pm so that working parents would be accommodated, which totally makes sense as 3 of my other leaders don't even get home from work until after 6.

[spindle92]

Sept 6, 2016 10:14:33 GMT -5 MDmomof2 said:

Our meetings are 3:30 to 5:00 every other Thursday. They meet right after school in a classroom and will take the girls down to after care if they go there. It's very convenient for me!

I help my bff with her meetings as her co-leader is a flake and this is exactly what we do to. It works really well.

[eb777888]

Sept 6, 2016 10:27:33 GMT -5 dale said:

I'm a Cub Scout leader and I was encouraged to hold meetings at 7 pm so that working parents would be accommodated, which totally makes sense as 3 of my other leaders don't even get home from work until after 6.

Yes, this makes total sense! It's just seems late I guess because his soccer and baseball practices were 5 or 6pm.

And of course he can "survive" on ten hours of sleep, lol!!

[eb777888]

Ohhh, I read it as your meetings starting at 7pm. I also think 6pm is fine.

[lilafowler]

Generally every other or every third Friday from 430-530 (Daisy troop-the leader holds the meetings for her cadettes right after from 530-630).

[sweetchix]

Our troop meets from 6-7:30. They are juniors (4th grade) now, but it was the same time when they were brownies the past 2 years. But my DDs don't go to bed until 8:30ish so it worked for us.

ETA: Also, we meet on Fridays.

[papie]

That's why I hate weeknight activities if they aren't at school. Too early is impossible to get to, too late messes with bedtime. 6pm seems terrible because it's dinner time.

[eb777888]

Sept 6, 2016 10:42:12 GMT -5 papie said:

That's why I hate weeknight activities if they aren't at school. Too early is impossible to get to, too late messes with bedtime. 6pm seems terrible because it's dinner time.

Drive thru night for David on those days.

[Dezi]

DD is in brownies and the meetings are 6:30-8:00. It has a lot to do with the fact that her troop leaders all work full time and can't be there any earlier.

[lilafowler]

Sept 6, 2016 10:43:49 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

Sept 6, 2016 10:42:12 GMT -5 papie said:

That's why I hate weeknight activities if they aren't at school. Too early is impossible to get to, too late messes with bedtime. 6pm seems terrible because it's dinner time.

Drive thru night for David on those days.

Yes. GS nights are Wendy's or pizza night.

[papie]

Sept 6, 2016 10:43:49 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

Sept 6, 2016 10:42:12 GMT -5 papie said:

That's why I hate weeknight activities if they aren't at school. Too early is impossible to get to, too late messes with bedtime. 6pm seems terrible because it's dinner time.

Drive thru night for David on those days.

See I have three, I didn't even think of that.  No brownies for them.  lol

I tried piano at 5pm one year.  Leave work super early.  Pick up kids.  Run to piano.  Run to the store during piano lesson to grab dinner (same building).  Pick up toddler screaming on the floor while trying to carry the dinner.  Pick up older kid from piano.  Run home at 6.  Make dinner while cursing everyone. 


Nope. 

[eb777888]

Sept 6, 2016 10:47:21 GMT -5 papie said:

Sept 6, 2016 10:43:49 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

Drive thru night for David on those days.

See I have three, I didn't even think of that.  No brownies for them.  lol

I tried piano at 5pm one year.  Leave work super early.  Pick up kids.  Run to piano.  Run to the store during piano lesson to grab dinner (same building).  Pick up toddler screaming on the floor while trying to carry the dinner.  Pick up older kid from piano.  Run home at 6.  Make dinner while cursing everyone. 


Nope. 

Yeah, that sounds like a PITA.

Honestly, I hate, HATE after school activities for David. I dread taking him.

[formerlyak]

I am a Cub Scout leader and I have to leave work early to make out full Pack meetings which start at 6pm. When I do our Den meetings that I lead (so just the boys in our grade level), we start at 6:30 to accommodate working parents and many times food is involved.

[wannabe]

this is exactly why we chose fridays for our meetings. no (or less) homework, less strict bedtime, easy for everyone. we meet at 6:30 and go till 7:45. a weekday meeting was never even a consideration for us.

[Deleted]

Ours start 15 minutes after school gets out and are held in a classroom. It's awesome because it all happens before I even pick her up.

But if we had to get her somewhere, I'd have to have a meeting that started at 6 or later.

[melissa]

EO Thursday from 6:30-8:00 p.m. We have new school hours so she will be coming home and going straight to bed.

[pegasuskat]

I was a leader for many, many years and ours were always from 6-7:30.  Almost all the parents worked so we had to do that.  But, I am still involved in Awana on Wed. nights at church and that's our time too, its pretty common for everyone I guess, we really don't get complaints.

[badgergrl]

Ours is right after school 3:30-5 - it's great- one less day to pay for after school care.

[pacificrules]

We just moved and haven't found a new group for DD1 yet. She was a Daisy last year (in K). Meetings were Mondays 6:15-7:15. It was definitely hard with bedtime since she was in bed more than an hour late on those nights.

[themysteriouswife]

The "oh little Sussie and Johnny do not need to go to bed at 7" is driving me insane. Not all kids are the same. Not all schools start after 8. Some parents work.