Parents who push Girl Scout Cookies

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW - we do most of our sales at booths. I post on social just once so that anyone far away can order if they want to. If you get an email, it's probably because GS is sending it - not the scout's parents. This is totally something you can just let go. But or don't buy.

This. I emailed once and the site spams folx. I make one post online and sometimes friend’s share them. Kid still goes door to door and attends booths. Many people prefer to order online though.

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Boop

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Samoa and tagalong. Yes byatch!!!

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I only buy from girls who sell in person. I never buy from parents. No guilt.

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Anonymous wrote:Personally I find door-to-door sales more “guilting” than an email or social media post that I can easily ignore.

I quit Girl Scouts mainly because of being forced to knock on strangers' doors to pester them to buy cookies. I can still feel the mortification.

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Anonymous wrote:GS guides kids to make their own online advertisement and yes, it gets sent to parent friends. Just don’t respond. The GS donate tons of boxes. Each troop picks a group to which they donate. The military, firefighters, hospital ERs, whichever.
The troop earns money from the sales to fund their activities, which include many cool things that girls could not otherwise afford. GS also have related badges concerning business and being an entrepreneur that relate to cookie sales, all of which is valuable to kids. Many kids sell cookies to earn money for summer camp.

If you don’t want them, just say no, and move on. It’s a good organization that provides leadership opportunities for girls and civic education.

There are so many other things to whine about.

How is mommy selling your cookies for you teaching them about leadership?

NP. You understand that cookie sales is a small part of scouting, and it is primarily meant to be a fundraiser, right? These are children. Some work independently, some work with friends, some also have the support of their parents. It's fine.

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Anonymous wrote:What does it teach your child if most of their boxes are sold through your own social media push? Guilting colleagues and friends into buying multiple highly processed cookies that last only 6 months. What happened to door-to-door sales? Kudos to the parents who encourage old school ways of selling the cookies and don't post links and sales on their Facebook pages. "Look how many boxes Larla sold!" but it was really just her mother selling them to her friends!

You sound jealous of 10 year olds and their moms, OP. That's really sad.

Anyway, I LOVE it when my neighbor emails the neighborhood with the link to buy cookies from her daughter. It's so easy and then they appear on my doorstep a few days later.

In fact, you have inspired me to reach out right now and ask her when they are starting sales!

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Find me one!!! I need some somoas

[Anonymous]

I almost started a thread on this. WHY are girls being told to push cookies this way?! This is our initial push. We take preliminary orders and then order those cookies. We're dual feds and selling at work is against ethics. They even send a yearly email about it.

Why can't they just give girls boxes of cookies and then they can have stands at stores/metro stations/neighborhood entrances? Parents shouldn't be doing the work for them.

I also think it's crazy that I need a background check to sit with my dd at a cookie booth.

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Anonymous wrote:I almost started a thread on this. WHY are girls being told to push cookies this way?! This is our initial push. We take preliminary orders and then order those cookies. We're dual feds and selling at work is against ethics. They even send a yearly email about it.

Why can't they just give girls boxes of cookies and then they can have stands at stores/metro stations/neighborhood entrances? Parents shouldn't be doing the work for them.

I also think it's crazy that I need a background check to sit with my dd at a cookie booth.

Which is it, there are no cookie booths or you think it's crazy to screen the adult volunteers at the cookie booths? Btw, you need a background check to sit with the other girls, not with your own.

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It's no different than when my dad took my order form to his office and mom took it to the neighbor's Tupperware party 30 years ago, OP. Get over it.

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Anonymous wrote:I almost started a thread on this. WHY are girls being told to push cookies this way?! This is our initial push. We take preliminary orders and then order those cookies. We're dual feds and selling at work is against ethics. They even send a yearly email about it.

Why can't they just give girls boxes of cookies and then they can have stands at stores/metro stations/neighborhood entrances? Parents shouldn't be doing the work for them.

I also think it's crazy that I need a background check to sit with my dd at a cookie booth.

As the mom of your DD's troop mate, I don't think it's crazy. I don't know you and what your background is and you want to spend 2 hours alone with my child? Hell no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I almost started a thread on this. WHY are girls being told to push cookies this way?! This is our initial push. We take preliminary orders and then order those cookies. We're dual feds and selling at work is against ethics. They even send a yearly email about it.

Why can't they just give girls boxes of cookies and then they can have stands at stores/metro stations/neighborhood entrances? Parents shouldn't be doing the work for them.

I also think it's crazy that I need a background check to sit with my dd at a cookie booth.

Sooooo do it the traditional way and take your kid around the neighborhood to sell to neighbors. I don't see what your problem is? You have choices.

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Anonymous wrote:If they’re selling Peanut Butter Patties and Caramel deLites then it’s highly offensive, and the parents should be censured.

If they’re selling Tagalongs and Samoas then the parents are performing a public service and deserve gratitude.

Preach. I live in a girl scout desert. I can only get the good boxes from social media.

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Anonymous wrote:Door to door sales don't work - nobody answers the door anymore (including me) and it's dark at 5 this time of year.
But, I'm also opting out of digital sales this year because the website bombards my email contacts with multiple messages that I have no control over. And the digital platform is not really something DD10 can manage herself anyway, as she doesn't have an email address.

So, just booth sales for us.

Yea, I frankly don't have the energy to set up digital sales this year, and you can't throw a cookie in our neighborhood without hitting a Girl Scout. Shipping costs are ridiculous, and I really don't want to drive an hour one way to drop some cookies off to well-meaning friends who want to support our daughter.

Also, this is just a crappy time of year to be starting this. We're all exhausted from the holidays, and it's too cold to be enthusiastic about

Pre-covid, when she was a Daisy, I took her into my office to directly make a sale to one person who asked to buy cookies. She had her uniform on, and a few other people approached us to buy cookies. That was cute when she was 5, not so much when she's 10. We were also in a different, smaller neighborhood and she and the other two Girl Scouts in the neighborhood went around to all the people without kids and did reasonably well with sales.

I'm going to talk to her about it, and if she wants to sell in addition to the booth, she'll have to go door to door, might have her post on social media, but only if she sets up everything.

Hopefully she's matured enough to not be competitive about it-- but there are 40-something troop moms who aren't mature enough to not be competitive...