At the beginning of each year or term the Brownies leader sends out an email asking parents which interest badges their DD would like to do that term. I assume it also feeds into planning as I guess if so many girls are doing badges from 1 theme they’ll try and plan to do that theme.
So I might say “We’ll do Baking, Archelogy and Charities in that order” but then look at what we have to do and find actually we’re better off doing Collecting then Dancing then Baking due to things we have going on and those badges fitting in better with life.
It’s never seemed to be a problem, DDs always been awarded the badge within a few weeks of completing it, most of the time it’s the next meeting after doing the badge but occasionally Brown Owl will say “I don’t have any of those badges in right now but it’s been added to the order so she’ll get it at soon as it comes in”.
Am I secretly annoying the leaders not following the order I said we’d do them in? Or is it just a case of those emails go out for planning and to make sure they have enough of the badges to give out?
DD absolutely loves going to Brownies and has loads of badges, we sometimes go a few weeks without doing an interest badge then do 2 or 3 in a short space of time just due to life, but I don’t want to annoy the leaders so will find a way to better plan which badges we do if it’s annoying them.
This has come up as I've realised we did one that I didn't say we'd do, and DDs going to be getting it at the next meeting.