[Apologies for break in tone of thread, you are all brilliant & have made me laugh, thank you...]
I've to be running Brownies 1800-1930 tomorrow & I actually haven't been able to plan what to do with my awesome small people (no planning meeting as Asst Leader been in work!hell since start term so not even been able to come to Unit meetings & LiT's been doing mocks so ditto) because I'm half-expecting the actual world to have ended & it is all so awful. (Well & I'm a bit more broken than usual atm, but mostly the UKexit [because sadly NI don't get to stay behind, so Brexit doesn't actually cover things but does conveniently ignore that great big massive can of snakes it's far worse than worms let's face it AND ST PATRICK IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE TO FIX THE MESS] & Trump situations grinding me down.)
Would it be bad to get the Brownies to play "If I were Prime Minister..." purely to cheer me up? They like playing it & it encourages them to be more confident about speaking in front of everyone & articulating their ideas. So not ENTIRELY selfish. And if I can't rule the world I'd like them to: though I have some reservations about the combination of free ice-cream (vegan options etc as required) & rollercoaster in every home, I'm fully on board with ending racism/bullying/sexism/homelessness/war, paying teachers & nurses more, giving the NHS more money, improving public transport, unicorns for everyone - & Brownies every day, although it might kill me dead, but apparently they'll also make more grown-ups be Leaders, so...
As a whole the Unit is bright & aware & engaged & while some of them only know Trump is Not Nice/Shouty/Mean/Scary/Sounds Silly, lots of them have a pretty good handle on Just How Bad This Is. Ech Their ideas on how to run a country are just so much better than Trump's. And frankly, seem more realistic. Right down to the unicorns, yes. (It is possible that I tell my Brownies that scientists are constantly discovering new species so maybe unicorns are real & just very VERY shy. Or able to turn invisible. Because I think when you're 7 [or indeed 10/11] you should get to believe in magical things...). Of course, apparently Trump speaks at a similar level to that expected of the older girls: arxiv.org/pdf/1603.05739v1.pdf (I am amazed he managed to score so highly to be honest. Worrying indictment of US education system? Or do they for some reason disregard his bimbling on & only analyse the main substance [if you can call it that] of his speech? Dubya was not exactly a great orator but how in the name of all that is good & holy is his score lower than the orange swamp monster's?!)
We will just have to have a great Brownie meeting. A very great one. The best. They are good people, my Brownies. The best people. We will win at Brownies. Then I will win bigly at tweeting about Brownies. Empowering!