Why Parents Who Sell Girl Scout Cookies Are Shortchanging Their Kids

yahoo.com ^ | January 12, 2016 | Melissa Walker

[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."

[grundle]

To be clear, the writer is not talking about parents who accompany their children for safety reasons while the children to sell cookies. Instead, the writer is talking about parents who sell the cookies without the children being involved. I agree with the writer.

[dfwgator]

[GraceG]

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.

[stocksthatgoup]

Skip the cookies and give your local troop $20

[Opinionated Blowhard]

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.

[PGR88]

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.

[Secret Agent Man]

5. Embracing of lesbianism as totally acceptable and healthy.

[Vigilanteman]

Back in the day, we had a route to deliver hoagie sandwiches as a fund raiser for our daughters in high school marching band. One area which had several auto service shops in the neighborhood was particularly good.

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.

[FoxInSocks]

For example, the e-mail requests for orders that circulate at work?

[siberianheat]

As the dad of a girl scout I can say how horrible they are. Beyond politics they reinforce the worst stereotypes of women as helpless little special snowflakes. But most gs moms are ok with it—men are encouraged to stay away—because of the labyrinthine rules they operate under. The cookies always get smaller and almost none of it actually goes to the girls. It is worth pointing out that almost everything a school age kid does involves fundraising. My kids are fundraising for a new playground for their own public school. I wonder where all the money goes... /sarc

[Mrs. Don-o]

Actually, people shouldn't buy GS cookies under any circumstances. Some of that money goes to National, and the National GSA is totally in bed with Planned Parenthood and various corrupt international feminist organizations, and they gave in to the Lesbian/Transgender thing years before the BSA gave in to the gays.

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.

[Michael.SF.]

[PAR35]

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.

[discostu]

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.

[knarf]

My dad had a pretty full woodworking shop in the cellar and when it came time to build my birdhouse for cub scouts, I cut the pieces out, but he edged them to look really neat

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.

[BlackElk]

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.

[NormsRevenge]

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.

[BlackVeil]

LOL!

[mykroar]

I think every (or damn near) kid of my co-workers is on ADHD (or more serious) meds. Everything is life or death.