GRrrrrr Scout Moms

I am not sure I truly understand the whole Mom dynamic. I am trying. But Mama Drama is rampant. Everywhere. I am girl scout troop leader something I am simultaneously proud of and freaked out by. It sort of sums up my whole recent life change. High heels do not go well with girl scout troop leader vests. They are polyester. I run after kindergartners and sing songs. Badly and loudly. And horrifying people murmur Oh she was born to do this. Really? This is my life's calling? I thought it was curing cancer, but you know things change and goals change and you have to re imagine your future. Anyhoo. the Moms. They fight. they bicker. they bitch. Ok um I do too. I have found myself toe to toe with a Mom over random shit I think of as "bullying" and bullying is a catastrophe. I mean it can be when it become harassment but one kid being a bitch to my kid? Yeah not so much. I shouldn't equate it to the daily horrors that some children endure. It shouldn't have the same word. But yes I yelled. I don't yell much in my life outside of polyester. I didn't yell in meetings or raise my voice to make my point. But when my kid/cub is involved I am no longer "me" I am more just shy of feral. Holding it together with claw like nails. & that's what is see in other Moms too. Well coiffed in their versions of after school casual but I am still hot gear shifting and jockeying for control. And their cubs are in the room and you are between them and their cub or their cub's needs. Otherwise reasonable people send shitty e-mails and nasty looks over ribbons and crayons. Tribes form and outsiders are shunned left to starve. I am have spent hours this week trying to calm the feral beast moms in my troop. I was so sure I had reached an uneasy truce when I get more flare ups. An e-mail lobbied with crap sent reply all, a nasty comment whispered when I am trying to read a story to 17 cub beasts. I keep trying to get the Moms to recall their inner human and I continue to try. I wonder if their is a fun patch for keeping Moms from blood letting?