<p>Does anybody have any experience with this mother-daughter organization?</p>
<p>A friend of mine was asked to join, but knows nothing about it. Are the activities something that would be favorabley viewd ECs, or is this more of a sorority kind of thing? Any insights appreciated.</p>
<p>My D and I belong to NCL. If you join because you want it to look good for colleges, don’t bother. If, on the other hand, you want to do some meaningful community service and spend quality time with you daughter, then I would investigate further. Each chapter is a little different, and you need to know what service opportunities are available and if it is something you are interested in and have time for.</p>
<p>It’s a combination of service and social activities - sort of like a mother/daughter Junior League in training. I’ve heard good and bad experiences with it - it depends on the people in it. You will get a broad range of service activities, opportunities for leadership, but if you are interested in a specific charity or type of charity, you would do better, application-wise, to work with that charity directly.</p>
<p>My D and I also belong, and I belonged to it as a teen with my mom. I second what curiousmother wrote. PM me if you have specific questions that I can answer.</p>
<p>In my area it is really about the EC thing. My daughter and I were invited to join. I told DD that when they invited the hispanic girl down the street we would reconsider. That said, I think different chapters have different ways of doing things. Investigate your individual chapter for yourself.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. I am going to meet my friend tomorrow and give her a summary of your responses. If she has any more specific questions, I will past them. I appreciate everyone’s input!</p>
<p>ebeeeee,</p>
<p>Your post made me laugh! I am the Hispanic girl down the street! (not your street, obviously, but you get my drift.)</p>
Could you tell me if this organization will cost a lot of money? I am a working mom on a tight budget; but my daughter has a friend in NCL and may want to get involved.
My D and I belonged to NCL. Many positives: Mothers and Daughters working together! We volunteered and D found her passion. Girls also learned many leadership aspects: running meetings, planning events, public speaking, etc. Our chapter also dealt with etiquette (yearly formal tea, written replies, thank you’s, etc.). At the time, there was grumbling about never needing this knowledge…but GosD was very glad later. At college Dean’s tea, she knew how to handle the receiving line, the food table, the RSVP, etc.
NCL requires the Mom’s commitment as well. Our chapter required that most of the volunteer hours were done together with Mother & Daughter. This required us to be together, work together during some of those “challenging” teen years. We live in a “charmed” area…and some of the volunteer projects really opened some of our Princess’s eyes to the reality of poverty, abuse, those with different abilities, etc. It was very gratifying to see the girls on the giving, rather than receiving end.
Each chapter is different (yes, some are Junior League-ish, exclusive, used only as EC). Our chapter was very low key, decidedly non-JL-ish. A lot depends on the leadership and motivation and commitment from Moms. Check out your chapter, ask about: Required meetings, events, dates, times–for both Mother and Daughter. Required hours of community service. The present Board of Directors. Organizations your chapter serves. Fees involved.
NCL is not for every Mother-Daughter. It had a huge impact on GosD and me!
This thread is from 2008…