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[quote=Anonymous]I am female.  I had a terrible experience with Girl Scouts as a child because my troop was populated by the girls who bullied me at school for years.  (My troop also never did any real activities, and the only badge I ever earned was Child Care!)  In the meantime, my Eagle Scout father was busy leading my brothers' Boy Scouting experiences, which were so different from my own that it might as well have been another planet.  I didn't resent them at all (it all seemed very active and muddy!), but I was really proud of them for what they did.

Fast forward to now, and my whole family is currently deeply involved in Scouts BSA - but DD now wants to drop Cub Scouting and join her friends' Girl Scout troop instead.  I absolutely want DD to become her own person and am trying to put aside my own bad memories - and my personal interest in and commitment to the Scouts BSA program.

This isn't DD's problem, it's mine.  And I want to deal with it myself, on adult terms, without her getting any of the baggage.

So talk me into Girl Scouting, people.  But without ripping Scouts BSA, please, because DS is happy there, and so was I.[/quote]

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