Posted on 01/13/2016 1:46:47 PM PST by grundle
The Girl Scouts website reads, "Every time you buy a box, you help girls learn five essential skills -- goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics -- all while helping them better themselves and their communities."
So if parents are pushing the cookies, where does that leave kids? "Parents who do this aren't doing their children any favors, aside from raising profit levels," Jacqueline Whitmore, founder of the Protocol School of Palm Beach, tells Yahoo Parenting. "The whole goal is to teach children a lesson in how to be approachable and friendly and gracious. You don't want to take away that opportunity by selling the cookies yourself."
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Reasons I Despise the Girl Scouts:
1. Their Tacit approval of Planned Parenthood
2. Their indoctrination into the whole NGO model of our children.
3. The Liberalism in general
4. Their cookies are too expensive.
Skip the cookies and give your local troop $20
This is part of a wider trend — parents who do everything for their kids. It goes hand in hand with over-protection. Its a really bad trend.
15 years ago, my daughter was in Girl Scouts for one year. Everything seem centered around the damn cookie sales and then the girls spent any money they earned at the “Build a Bear” in the mall.
I didn’t see the Planned Parenthood connection locally and the local leader was a nice enough woman, but nonetheless, my wife and I felt it had become an empty shell of an organization. No purpose, no ethos, no philosophy except cheap “girl power” slogans.
So pulled our oldest daughter from it and put her and other daughters in some sports they liked, and other church/community groups that were much better.
5. Embracing of lesbianism as totally acceptable and healthy.
It also included a car wash which employed a lot of guys. We learned to make my daughters do that delivery because if the parents did it, we'd sell two or three. If the girls did it, they'd sell nine or ten.
We went to the smaller shops who would buy one to three regardless of who made the sale. Being a gorgeous high school girl doesn't hurt in selling in certain places.
For example, the e-mail requests for orders that circulate at work?
If the local troop isn't contaminated by that crap, and is really worthwhile, give them some cash ---- forget the cookies --- and tell them the money is to be spent LOCALLY ONLY and is not to be reported to National.
If you get a chance, tell them why.
No, the parents that sell for their children are teaching important lessons in modern business.
* Claim credit for the work of others
* Who you know is more important than actually doing the work
* Call in favors when you need to
* Get to a position where you have leverage over others - and use it.
Well then maybe GSA shouldn’t be pushing the parents to sell the cookies. It’s the parents who get stuck making the pre-order and then have the choice of either having a garage full of cookies or getting them sold. The revenue stream is apparently far too important to be left up to children.
I nailed it all together and I lost to Arty Graham ... who's birdhouse looked like shit ... but he had built it completely by hand
I missed out on an official Boy Scout knife
Life Long Lesson Learned
I was 8 or 9 or 10 years old.
People who put their daughters in Girl Scouts at all aren’t doing them any favors either given the warm relationship between many Girl Scout organizations/leaders and lesbianism and abortion. Boy Scouts are no longer excluding “gay” leaders either. There are wholesome and Godly alternatives to both groups.
Its an annual thing here, eventually little scouts grow older and move on.. We’ve gone thru a few ‘dealers’ over the years. ;-)
Hoedowns and PB samwich cookies do it for me.. I buy them regardless who’s selling.
LOL!
I think every (or damn near) kid of my co-workers is on ADHD (or more serious) meds. Everything is life or death.
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