Been a bit of rearrangement of Monday since before the summer, SB still doing ballet (3.40 – 4.25), but this is now followed by Brownies, which she started this term. Rather annoyingly there is a 30 minute gap between the two (the venues are right next to each other) which is short enough to mean it isn’t worth going home, but seems long enough when you have to go back out to the ballet class to pick her up to wait for Brownies to start. OK at the mo when we can go in playground, but in winter will need to ask ballet teacher if we can waitin the hall I guess. So it leaves me feeling a bit like a yo-yo, and SB hungry by the time we get dinner 
The added spice is that the Punto now has no MOT so only one car on the road at the mo, and the HE sports sessions started up again today. Luckily Helen is working just down the road from there on Mondays, so 7.45 (eeek!!) saw us all in the car. Dropping Helen at work we popped in to the supermarket to buy some stuff for breakfast/lunch. Said they could have doughnuts for breakkie 8-), but then in the car the decided to eat the Wotsits and Quavers they had bought to ahev with lunch – so a nutritious energy packed breakfast before doing sports then
BB tried out the sports session today (guide age is 4-7 for the younger group) stayed in there almost to the end, though she had SB with her, showing her what to do and helping her. Don’t think she’d have been up to doing it all by herself though yet. But seemed keen to do it again, she was so pleased to be doing the same thing as Stringbean. SB was going to try out the older group as well, but decided not to after all, I think she decided she’d rather run around and play instead So there was some rather noisy and raucous playing, with some grown up HE talk then headed off to the park for a bit. Helen’s text to say she was finsihing work came at the same time as the Deependers were departing, so that was good timing.
Home via Tesco’s just in time to start the above Ballet/Brownies yo-yo. BB fell asleep in car, watched something or oher and did some Fimo-ing with Helen. While waiting for Brownies to start, had a bit of a conversation about what the Scouts etc. are, the Guides, relationship between the two, why maybe the guides etc. have stayed girl only whilst the Scouts etc. accept girls as well now. She did say that she liked the idea of doing wild things with boys ! AS an aside, it’s be interesting to see how the Cubs activities compare to the Brownies.
Children all in bed at appropriate times tonight, so getting things back to normal, I was going to go to bed at sensible time, but haven’t managed it. Have blogged though And have discussed possible science activities with Helen for the Wednesday group
Sounds chaotic! I often think S would much prefer to Beavers to Rainbows or Cubs to Brownies although the ages don’t quite corrolate so she’d have to start one and then move to the other (although they don’t happen on the same day so maybe she could do both) but for now it seems to be her little window of girliness in an otherwise mud packed week.
aparently the reason that Guiding stayed “girls only” is that there was a feeling that girls *need* a “girls only space” and that if they want to do boy stuff they can do that elsewhere. I suspect that means that Guides tends to attract “girlie girls” whereas Scouting attracts “roughy toughy girls” I’m still undecided if any sort of discrimination even the volentary kind, is 100% okay but I do like my little gang of giggly girls and they all say that they like to not have the “horrid boys” around!
I’m obviously against the whole guiding movement. Think we well may join the scouts in protest.
Obviously? I think there’s a place for single sex and mixed groups. Is there no Baden-Powell-inspired group that is strictly boys only now then?
Alsion – she wasn’t wanted by the Brownie leader of the group she wanted to join with her fellow rainbow girls were going to. I understand it’s because she doesn’t go to the same school. And then to compound the problem, she doesn’t attend school at all. I only know this much as my friend runs the Rainbows group she used to attend.
Don’t think so Alison. I’vr got no problem with them being single sex, and I assumed it was for the ‘girls own space’ idea that Guides remained.
But I do have a sense in which the activities at Rainbows (can’t comment on the Brownies yet, and i’m going just on our group) do tend towards ‘safe’ girly type things. I don’t necessarily think that preferring to be in an all female group and necessarily wanting to do girly stuff have to go together
daddybean, you could perhaps offer to be a brownie helper…
I’ve already put my name down to help out in a couple of weeks time