Originally posted by CrewChief:
Riverdancer - your community is fortunate to have you. Keep trying to build diversity within your team so everyone benefits!

I agree (and I'm not PC- never have, never will) just meant to inject a third or fouth party (working and stay at home dads to the stay at home and working moms) with an attempt at a little humor

Ideally, the Parent Group ratios would match the communities demographics but that never seems to be the case. Every single person has so much to offer, be it time, money, professional expertise or talent.

A successful board finds ways to tap into the variety of resources within their community. I'm always sad to hear about any group that purposely limits themselves.

Riverdancer - your community is fortunate to have you. Keep trying to build diversity within your team so everyone benefits!

who siad the M stands for Mom?
SAHM also stands for Stay At Home Men...we need more of them in the parent groups, partricipating, and leading , thats for sure....where are they....the men that work outside the home or work at home,,,they need to be a larger part of parent groups, they are half the parent group, yet represent a fraction of the active members...very unfortunate

maybe the generic 'Stay At Home Member' would be PC.

Thats why you need Dads'

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On a completely different note...Many of our working moms are our fundraising champions. They may not have time to come and volunteer but many of them take fundraising catalogs to work and hawk the merchandise to raise funds for our groups. Every year no matter what we are selling it is always the working moms we never see who sell tons of stuff at work for our school. As a SAHM I can volunteer my time but I can't sell that much stuff. Maybe someone needs to remind this boob that involved working moms play a different role then the involved SAHM's but that both are necessary to get the job done.

River-
There are multitudes of ideas and suggestions here for you to look at. First of all, all parents need to be welcomed to make your group successful. I've been on both ends of the work or not to work situation and been able to handle what I volunteer for. Secondly, you need to make sure that your group is open to all parents. If only a minority of your meetings are during the evening, you may need to change this. Our group quit holding the very late (7pm meetings) in an effort to catch parents while they were still fresh, starting between 4 and 5 works very well here, it also allows for teachers and the principal to come since they are no longer on duty and their input is definately useful and we can still get home in time for dinner. Finally, do a search and review some earlier posts to see what others have suggested. Keep in mind, working parents hate to be told they can't help because they work and a lot of stay at home parents can (in)advertantly make other parents feel bad for not making the sacrifice to stay home. Neither of them is doing their child(ren) any good unless they are working together to make your school awesome because no one can do it alone.