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Originally Posted by Monochron
One of the interesting challenges we have now is that a lot of our parents feel like they can be a part of the decision making process while not actually helping out with the team. For instance, we weren't able to have student dues this year because the parents got all up in arms at our parents meeting.
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Our team had similar problems in the distant past. Our solution was to tell the parents(read: prospective mentors) at our parent night meeting that a requirement for being a mentor is that they have to keep a consistent level of involvement throughout the build season. This can be at whatever level they're comfortable with, all the way down to one night a week. This ensures that we don't have parents come in for the first time at week six and make suggestions or design changes that we already tried in week two.