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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would they want to? Girl Scouts seems to exist to just get girls to sell cookies. Its a MLM org for girls.[/quote]

Thin Mints, ftw!  Never affiliated with Girl Scouts.  I would gladly pay for those MLM cookies.  To me it's a seasonal treat and an opportunity to be friendly to co-workers.  No worse than Paul Newman's or Whole Foods cookie prices.

Fundraising skills are relevant to adulthood...communicating objectives, asking for support, being part of a community, etc.

The girls that are in it seem to be having fun and learning something.

I do think it was a bit of a market share grab by the Boy Scouts but I can appreciate that some people want to affiliate with a single organization for their entire set of kids.[/quote]

The cookies aren't my favorite part of Girl Scouts*, but my daughter definitely gets something out the sale in terms of learning to communicate to adults, handle rejection, set goals, etc. Girl Scouts is also very variable by troop, but I've never seen a troop that was either just about selling cookies or about "everything feminine." Our troop is about outdoor skills and STEM stuff mostly because that's what the troop enjoys.

I've got a lot of criticisms of the Girl Scout program, but "it's all cookies" or "it's too feminine" are both pretty far off the mark in my experience.

*I'm the cookie manager, but that's because it's a role I can fill as a father without issue[/quote]

I've been in 3 diff GS troops. At 2 different schools. 3 troops because the leadership kept fizzling and a new mom tried to spin off and start a new troop instead just picking up where the last one left off. All were very poorly run. I get that it's a lot of effort and I think GS doesn't make it easy, but we had just a few meetings, did very little, then suddenly for 3 months it was nothing but cookies and maybe a small party at the end with our earnings. For 4 years all I remember doing was selling cookies and my daughter got very little out of the program. [/quote]

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