Anonymous wrote:Girl Scouts covers every single one of those topics
Yeah, this is true. My daughter is a HS senior this year, been a GS since Daisies, and she’s done badges on all of these over the years. Plus things like engineering and problem-solving, travel and cultural exploration, environmental topics, and mental and emotional wellbeing.
But yeah, most of these things are best taught by parents, a little at a time, over many years. The badge work mostly helped to either introduce something we could build on at home, or reinforce what we’d been teaching her. It often provided a useful backup—confirmation that her parents weren’t just being weird about this stuff, other people think it’s important, too.