Ever have one of "those" children ...

Well let me preface by saying there is this girl in my daughter's Girl Scout troop that is well ... satan incarnate! Sadly, she's also the troop leader's daughter so there's not much we can do about her actions. She's the kid that's the bully, loudmouth, interrupter, pushes, shoves, yells, cries when she doesn't get her way... etc well, you get the idea.

I knew after the first meeting for the troop she was going to drive me nuts so I figured I'll drink a margarita before I go ... and sure it made her antics not quite so annoying the next time but sadly didn't deliver when she started screaming through the loud speaker .... *sigh*.

Well they had an outing to the zoo last weekend and she was so bad my husband has sworn he will never go on an outing with the troop again because of her. Sadly, that may keep my daughter from going on a few of them as I'm not always able to attend the outings. Apparently, many parents feel that "outing" is some code word for ... "troop leader and other sucker parents babysit our kids day". Subsequently, that's what the other parents did... they dropped off their kids one by one and it ended up being the troop leader and my husband in charge of 10 or so 8 year old girls. That right there is enough to give anyone a acid reflux :P Then you add in the "satan child" and you have a real mess on your hands.

I've always been one to be honest about issues especially the big white elephant in the room such as this problem. Meaning, I would normally come right out to "satan child's mom" and tell her that her child is so disrupting, disrespectful and unruly during meetings and outings that I cannot subject my daughter to her presence anymore. However, I'm torn... if I do that my daughter will possibly miss out on many fun activities not to mention some of her best friends are in that troop. So for the sake of my daughter I've not said anything.

The double whammy is that "satan child's mom" is also pregnant. I don't want to put any more stress on her than she already has daily. I thought I'd vent a bit .. :P Feel free to chime in your thoughts.

~S~