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.
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.
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.
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.
The whole damn thing is a scam. The box should read, “This cookie company doesn’t want to spend on marketing or distribution so we will use child labor and guilt rather than spend any money.”
Exactly. The parents are behind the cash box and the kids go whimpering up to people going into stores asking them to buy their cookies. The kids don’t take the money, make change, etc.
I miss girl scout cookies. I refuse to support them after their stance on Gay nonsense and they went liberal. Maybe someday America will be great again and I can buy girl scout cookies again.
I took my 6 year old son to his first Cub Scout popcorn sale 13 years ago. He was very shy and I thought it would be a total bust. An older boy literally put his arm around him and said “I’ll teach you how to sell popcorn.”
And off he went.
Long story short, he became an Eagle Scout and just after that, our entire troop left BSA and switched to Trail Life USA.
TLUSA has a national fundraiser of excellent, incredible delicious chocolate bars.
Last year, two brothers were on duty at a gun show candy bar sale. Their dad texted and asked how to get his boys motivated.
I called and asked to speak with his older son. I repeated the story about my son and charged him with teaching his younger brother how to reach out and sell candy bars.
An hour later they made 25 sales.
I can’t stand what GSA and BSA have become and the article is dead on. Fundraiser sales make some money and done properly yield life lessons.
Just write the individual troop a check and be done with it. And not a dime goes to the cookie company.