I go out of my way to do business with kids operating a lemonade stand in the summertime, but I’ve always hated buying Girl Scout cookies. Maybe it has something to do with the formality of it, and the fact that every Girl Scout mother I knew was a leftist.
All this stuff was ubiquitous in my 1960s youth
Brownies and Girl Scouts
Cub scouts and Boy Scouts
I was an RA ....a Baptist thing...maybe other denominations too...we camped and stuff
There were other groups too....Campfire girls
Boys Club and YMCA had stuff too
Boy those ships have sailed...all corrupted and spoiled ....putrid
Don’t even know if they have RAs anymore
We moved to American Heritage Girls when Girl Scouts came out against traditional values. They said that stay at home mothers are bad role models, we want working moms as leaders.
Fast forward ten years, and the girls who want to camp were clamoring to join Boy Scouts doing the fun stuff because working mom’s badge choices were stress relief with spa days and, if adventurous, swimming in the pool for that badge.