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."
(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...
When I come out of my local grocery store sometimes the GS have a cookie table and I buy a couple boxes of shortbread cookies. They are high dollar anymore.
This appears to be the primary sales method used by the local group so I do buy some even though I really have no business having them around. I also object to the uses by National but I know my daughter had fun camp experiences in GS.
My Brother entered the soap box derby in Panama City around 1953. He got the Bay Line Railroad to sponsor him.
Now I remember him going to their shop every day for a while but when I saw his racer, it looked like something Ferrari would have turned out.
No way did Joe build that by himself. He won his first two races but lost the third. He got to keep the car.
I also give the VFW and American Legion money when the are set up at the same grocery store.
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.”
“Can you imagine these little bastards when they’re in their 20s?”
Sure. Watch coverage of collage protests.
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.
That is just wonderful. My sister in law had texted me last weekend, asking if we wanted to purchase any cookies from our darling niece. Needless to say I just forwarded your post to her. WE’LL TAKE A DOZEN WHATEVERS!
You are right. The organization changed its focus from its original intent and became this horrible monster. Juliette Gordon Lowe must be turning over in her grave to see what it has become in the last 15+ years. It’s just awful.
A coworker has her baby in counseling...something about it not being a happy baby or crying too much. She was discussing it with somebody else, and I thought I was watching a comedy sketch.
Gotta love family and neighbors.
No one will remember how few you buy, but they sure won’t forget you didn’t buy any.
That reminds me of Sam Kinison’s skit on dog psychology.
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.
What do you mean, "stereotypes"?
Are there other kinds of liberal Democrat parents and young people than these somewhere?
If so...
... where?
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.
This about tells it all. . . .read through the pdf.
http://www.gsccc.org/media/112103/girl-scout-sunday-sabbath-service-ideas.pdf
Just write the individual troop a check and be done with it. And not a dime goes to the cookie company.
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