Thread: Girl Scouts?!

Oh, I keep meaning to see about GS for Mia. I think she'd love it. Have fun!

Yay! Get ready to be a taxi....

Jennah won't be able to be in girl scouts for a couple years. I don't think they start until K around here. But damn, she will be the cutest little girl scout cookie seller ever...

I am so stoked!!! Hopefully this will be a big boost to her self esteem. I had just looked up information this weekend about it, but then found the basketball sign-ups. Now we can do both I've been looking forward to this for months.

That's great!

That's awesome! I was in girl scouts for a year (until we had no parent volunteers) and I loved it!!! We're waiting on a call, we signed up at the open house, but haven't heard anything about it yet. I should ask though, b/c that was back in September.

I'm thinking of signing Brianna up next year in K Apparently for Boy Scouts they have to be in 1st grade but for Girl Scouts they can be in K.

Abby is in her second year of girl scouts and we both love it!

Anna keeps chatting about it and is really excited. I was in GS from her age until 8th grade, when we moved and there wasn't a troop in our area. We did so much awesome stuff, trips, sleep overs, camping, hiking, museums... Yeah. Good times. I hope this troop is as good as mine were. If not, well, I can always MAKE them better

She will love it!! And she will make lots of friends, too. I never did girl scouts, but I was really too involved in baseball and softball from the time I was 6. I know Simon's sister was a girl scout and really liked it and he would probably want to put in girl scouts at least until she figured out what she really wanted to do (be it girl scouts, basketball, softball, soccer, etc.). I am a firm believer in kids being very involved in all kinds of extra curricular activities. They learn team work, make friends, and stay too busy to get into trouble.

OH SHE WILL LOVE EVERY SECOND OF IT ! this is leonas first year as a daisy scout and she absolutely LOVES every second of it.. she is already selling magazines and peants and stuff and has filled the entire page already.. her next meeting is this thursday she cannot wait.. i love it to and so does hubby.. we are looking forward to all the things that are to come ..

It's going to be pretty hard for us to sell things unless Justin takes the order sheets to work. We don't have any neighbors!!! I'm sure we could take it to the dump truck place next door since our landlords own it and the guys would feel kind of obligated...

We didn't sell until 1st grade. I don;t know if that is universal, but our council won't let the kindergarteners sell.

But but but... Where will I get my cookies???

I think it was new last year that Daisies could sell, at least I thought that's what I heard last year.

Our troop chooses not to sell the fall product, figure things are just getting going and there is always a school fundraiser then too. No need to push something else. It's cookies everyone wants anyways!

Our school is always pushing something. The high school boosters send home all sorts of crap. Sorry, I paid my ridiculous registration fee, I don't feel the need to buy shirts for your sports teams that don't win anything, ever.

Maybe now that daisies is 2 years. It used gto be that Daisies didn't sell product.

Originally Posted by *Robyn*

It's going to be pretty hard for us to sell things unless Justin takes the order sheets to work. We don't have any neighbors!!! I'm sure we could take it to the dump truck place next door since our landlords own it and the guys would feel kind of obligated...

jeremy took leona's to his work and he filled the entire page up for her and wants another page for more.. plus my family buys as well from her and at school today where we live at we dont have but 3 neighbors, one is elderly couple, the other is a not so friendly couple that we never see and the other is a quiet couple that we talk to every couple of days so it just works out better if hubby takes it to work with him and all his work friends LOVE girl scout stuff too which made it better, lol, we turn in her girl scouts stuff this thursday at the meeting ..

I know my mom will buy stuff, MIL too because she has that sense of obligation. Maybe I can finagle a few peeps on FB to buy some too

let hubby take to work too the cutiest part about it all is watching there faces light up when they see all the people that bought something from her because she knows she gets patches that way.. LOL

I LOVED girl scouts. I had a goal to sell the most cookies in my troop. My dad bought like 10 boxes of each lol. Then he'd guilt trip people into buying cookies. If they bought one box, he'd call them cheap lol.. In the end I did win. I won a freaking pillow case! lol. I still have that pillow case though. We had gs cookies for so long!! lol. Good thing they freeze well.

leona doesnt start selling her girl scouts cookies till january or february they said.. she is selling magazines right now and peanuts and stuff for now, she filled the entire page up for the peanuts and stuff and me and hubby bought 3 magazines for her and we filled out the thing that they send to family to buy magazines from her, jeremy looked to see how many patches she will get with all the people that bought from her at his work she is going to get a good bit she will be so excited to put them on her tunic

Color me crazy but shouldn't the kids at least do some of the selling themselves? Why the sense of accomplishment for the child if their parents are really the ones who sold it all?

I had to sell boxes and boxes of candy when I was little year after year. Both for the sports I played and to go to the YMCA camp every summer. My parents could not afford to send me, so instead, I literally sold chocolates all summer to pay for it. I went door to door, I stood in front of stores, I asked family and friends, but my parents NEVER took it to work to sell for me. I remember wanting them to, but really, my mom cleaned her friends houses and my dad worked in a furniture store. He could have sold a few to his co-workers I suppose, but he would have never sold them to customers.

Now, that said, I don't think it is WRONG for a parent to sell some at work should they have the opportunity. I just think the kid should be doing more of the selling than the parent in the end.

Anna will be doing her own footwork at the pharmacies on the weekend LOL. She's more charming than Justin anyway I'll make her call my mom and MIL too (if nothing else but so I don't have to talk to them thh!). Because other than that and going next door... She won't have anyone to sell to!

leona is only 5 years old she is to small, this is her first year she doesnt know much about what to do really.. and i dont see anything wrong really letting us bring them for her to sell i mean she knows and she asked her daddy if he could take it to work for her to sell i mean she cant go to his work and sell them because he is a federal tech in the military and children arent allowed where he works otherwise she would go so he took them for her and where we live we only have 3 neighbors, two of which we never see so there is no selling there and we arent going to stores walking in and asking people to buy something from her be diffrent with girl scouts cookies but these arent girl scouts cookies these are magazines and peanuts.. a lot diffrent !

We did the sign-ups last night. Her absolute BEST FRIEND EVER is also going to be there, along with, well, the rest of the kindergarten girls. I watched the "leaders" and have a distinct feeling I'm going to take over the troop after the baby's born if not before. They have NO IDEA what they're doing, they weren't girl scouts as girls (not that it matters but you KWIM), and it was absolute chaos in there. The parent meeting is next Thursday at 6 (Dude, why 6? REALLY? Most people out here don't even get home until 5:30!!!) so we'll see how THAT goes. Oh and they put the wrong address on the flier so I ended up at the wrong place first. They just assumed everyone knew where the Sunshine Center is. Sorry, I haven't lived here my entire life, you're going to have to work with me.

Oh and I'm really stoked too about everyone there also being in basketball because that means meeting will be scheduled around practices and we don't have to worry about juggling both!!!

Our most successful sellers alwasy went into their parent or grandparents workplace with them. I would not recomend going to door to door unless you know the people. But that is obvious!

Yay! I was not a girl scout, and think our troop runs pretty well. Daisies is kinda a no-brainer. But you should get involved, it is so rewarding!!!!

These chicks just seemed completely and totally overwhelmed by everything going on last night and there was ZERO organization. It threw off my chi LMAO.

sounds kinda like leona's troop, she had her girl scouts meeting last night.. she received her daisy tunic last night and some patches and her daisy necklace some of the things that we bought are put on back order, UGH i was so made cause she needs them now.. they are so behind on some things its so crazy really.. she earned a peddle last night to go on her tunic tho by finishing her girl scouts work that they did last night.. i love leona's troop leader, she is leona's bestfriend lillie's mom, but they are so un organized .. the girls were better than the last troop meeting tho they were more quiet this time and listened to there troop leader and done there work.. so if leona completes her work she earns a peddle to go on her tunic .. we are planning a camp out for next month so they are excited about that and so am i , possibly may be in our HUGE backyard me and hubby told them they could use our backyard if they want for the camp out since our yard is huge .. we also turned in leonas magazine and peanut orders, leona sold $290.00 worth of magazines and peanuts.. she earned about 4-5 patches plus some goodiess.. she was so excited and so proud and so were we .. the next thing to sell is cookies were looking forward to that..

I'm excited for her. I love gs as a kid. I can't wait for next year. Hopefully the leaders will get more organized.

I remember having a lot of patches on back-order as a kid. My mom liked it that way because it let her spread out the amount of sewing she had to do on my vests.

I have Julia's sash & all of her patches since January of last year sitting on the piano.

I have Julia's sash & all of her patches since January of last year sitting on the piano.

Abby's are on her bookshelf! Everyone asks me which color petals they have completed and I don't even remember and I am one of the frickin leaders! OOPS!