Girl Scout

[Anonymous]

My daughter is 6. She didn’t go sell cookies. I was able to sell 30. However the troop sold a lot. Are they going to announce how many each girl sold. My daughter is not interested anymore, I told her to finish this school year and we will withdraw.

[Anonymous]

Uhm ok.

[Anonymous]

Did you mean to send this to your troop leader?

[Anonymous]

Your daughter isn’t interested because she can’t sell cookies?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 6. She didn’t go sell cookies. I was able to sell 30. However the troop sold a lot. Are they going to announce how many each girl sold. My daughter is not interested anymore, I told her to finish this school year and we will withdraw.

As you know, parents are not supposed to sell cookies for their girl scouts. The kids need to do it. -- GS Troop Leader

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you mean to send this to your troop leader?

+1. I haven’t found Girl Scouts to be so micro-managing that direction for this is provided from on high so that each and every troop nationwide handles this consistently.
—Troop leader

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter is 6. She didn’t go sell cookies. I was able to sell 30. However the troop sold a lot. Are they going to announce how many each girl sold. My daughter is not interested anymore, I told her to finish this school year and we will withdraw.

Thanks for sharing.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know about your troop OP, but I’ve never been part of a troop that announced cookie sales by kid. I’ve been the cookie person a few times and the range in sales is huge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know about your troop OP, but I’ve never been part of a troop that announced cookie sales by kid. I’ve been the cookie person a few times and the range in sales is huge.

I do find that weird. We usually have a couple scouts who sell nothing or just a couple boxes to their moms. It's not something that's pointed out.

Although of OP is in the DC area, the sale isn't close to done yet so I find the framing here odd too.

[Anonymous]

No girl in my troop was pressured to sell cookies or shamed for not selling. We did announce the top seller if they won a prize but didn’t announce the number of boxes each girl in the troop sold. I always had a few girls who sold only a few boxes. If you are really worried, why not reach out to the leader.

[Anonymous]

No one cares, although I sometimes will give a shout-out to the top sellers. We usually do something fun with the money, so it seems worth thanking them for their extra effort. I'm a troop leader and my kid is always one of the lowest sellers.

If you sell more than 12 you get the fun patch for the back of your vest, and then there are dumb prizes for higher sales, but those don't typically come in until June anyway when the girls have basically forgotten about them.

If you quit over this, that's silly. But if you're not interested, just quit now. It's super frustrating as a troop leader to spend your evenings after you get home from work planning a nice meeting for kids, and then have some girl that is rude about being there because her mother forced her to go. Often troops have wait lists of girls that really want to join.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one cares, although I sometimes will give a shout-out to the top sellers. We usually do something fun with the money, so it seems worth thanking them for their extra effort. I'm a troop leader and my kid is always one of the lowest sellers.

If you sell more than 12 you get the fun patch for the back of your vest, and then there are dumb prizes for higher sales, but those don't typically come in until June anyway when the girls have basically forgotten about them.

If you quit over this, that's silly. But if you're not interested, just quit now. It's super frustrating as a troop leader to spend your evenings after you get home from work planning a nice meeting for kids, and then have some girl that is rude about being there because her mother forced her to go. Often troops have wait lists of girls that really want to join.

Not the girls in my troop who earned the stuffed animals lol

[Anonymous]

Girls are not obligated to sell cookies. The only way anyone will know how many cookies someone sells is by the prizes they get at the end, but some troops choose to give those out discreetly (we just asked parents to pick them up because we had some girls who sold a ton and others who didn't sell anything and didn't want anyone to feel bad).

The more important question is why isn't your child interested in participating? Cookies are only a very small part of the Girl Scout experience.

[Anonymous]

Nobody wants to make your kid feel bad. Have her try one of the day camp through the GS program. They are very good.

[Anonymous]

I'm a troop leader. My DD is lucky to sell ten boxes. Nobody cares.