Leslie, My daughter is just starting to get involved in activities that need parent volunteers. This year I was a volunteer mom at her kindergarten. One thing they did that I as a volunteer found especially helpful was they scheduled us! They sent home a calendar with our names on specific dates, and those were the days we would go to the school to help out. If we could go in more often, that was great too, but we were responsible for those days we were scheduled for first, and anything else was just gravy.
I think that although I have the best of intentions when it comes to volunteering, my schedule (like everyone else's) just sometimes gets so crazy that I have to prioritize what I do, and sometimes things that aren't specifically scheduled (like an open request to help out, or to get more exercise <g>) seem to fall by the wayside first, unfortunately. You said you had resigned as a leader, so maybe this won't be of much use to you now, but I guess what I've learned about volunteering from the kindergarten staff is to take a fuzzy, general offer to "help out", and make it a firm committment. Say something like, "That's great you want to help out. Why don't you plan the craft activity for the meeting next month", or something along those lines. I've only got my experience as a volunteer mom to go on, though, so maybe I'm just too idealistic. :-) Pam, who fondly remembers her mom being a Girl Scout leader, and how much it meant to me that she was willing to do so much work! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Journey from clutter List Website http://journeyfromclutter.com Members Only Page http://journeyfromclutter.com/MembersOnly/MembersArea.htm Unsubscribe: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in the 'Subject:' field to be removed from the main list. To Unsubscribe from the Digest version of the list send the unsubscribe message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
