New in Girl Scouting
By shanarenea
@shanarenea (26)
United States
January 18, 2009 12:06pm CST
When I was growing up I was a Girl Scout. I started in Daisy's, which is what you are in Kindergarden, and went all the way up to getting my Gold Award, which is the highest acheviement in Girl Scouts. We did badge work, went camping, and volunteered alot of out time.
I want to know why the big changes. The girls today don't have to do half of the stuff I did. They don't always learn how to cook outdoors. They don't have to learn how to live outside.
There are so many changes that I don't feel it's the same program that I went through. They are taking away what it was based on. When they go camping they don't "rough it". When Juliette Lowe, the founder of Girl Scouts in the U.S.A., started this program i'm sure she didn't expect the girls to be able to take the easy way out. She didn't expect them not to learn, and be able to do those things on their own. I know that Scouting has done alot for alot of girls, but I wonder if the girls involved will learn as much as I did.
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@chasingsunlight (261)
• United States
18 Jan 09
I think it really depends on the troop. Some troop leaders do still encourage the traditional activities. At the same time, though, the Girl Scouts organization has made an effort to focus more on academic skills and encouraging girls to get interested in the traditionally male fields of science and technology. I think its a balancing act between these indoor activities and "roughing it." There is nothing wrong with expanding girls minds. After all, science is far more practical than knowing how to make pancakes on an open fire (which is what I learned to do when I was a girl scout..I was in it for 13 years).
@shanarenea (26)
• United States
18 Jan 09
I'm okay with new activities, i'm just afraid that as a whole the Girl Scouting program is changing and getting away from what it was based on.
I'm sorry that you didn't learn much, and i realize that my troop was more active than most, but most of the girls learnt the stuff at camp. The Girl Scout camps are catering to the girls more than i think they should.
