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Help me make a non-dorky brownie leader shirt for myselfSo I have a nice little light blue tee shirt. I want to have a shirt to wear when my dd's wearing her vest. Anything clever you can think up for me?
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You're a Brownie leader?
You're a Brownie leader? YOU ARE SO AWESOME!
I've kinda been on a Girl Scout kick lately. My girls are in an awesome troop & I just really couldn't be more pleased.
My mom was my troop leader too.
What do you think about the shifts they've been making in their program?
"Do not forget. Remember and warn."
-- Plaque fixed to the hollow shell of Sarajevo's National Library
"Do not forget. Remember and warn."
-- Plaque fixed to the hollow shell of Sarajevo's National Library
I love corny camp songs
When I was a counselor in high school, all of the other counselors used to try to get on the other bus because I would always sing with the kids the whole way on the field trips. We are talking half an hour trips, it was a day camp. Not 1,000 bottles of beer on the wall or anything...
I loved it. First of all, it was tons of fun. Second, the kids loved it and behaved better. If you ignore them, they will act up the whole way there because they're bored and cooped up.
I bet you are an awesome co leader.
Sunflower the unflower
Mom's Tinfoil Hat
Foodie loves Picky
Sunflower the unflower
Mom's Tinfoil Hat
Foodie loves Picky
I was a scout FOREVER
My mom and her good friend were the leaders and they kept us girls interested long beyond when it was cool by doing things like taking us skiing and to Florida on a train and camping outside Disney (and going to the park of course), etc. etc.
I never brought scouts up to my kids b/c I didn't want my son to be in boy scouts but they brought it up over the summer...we explained to ds what it was we didn't like about the BS organization so he agreed to join adventure guides at the Y w/Daddy instead. I signed dd up for GS, checked off that I would "help" and figured I'd end up a co-leader. Yup, here I am!
I'm matched up with the PERFECT other co-leader for me. She doesn't know beans about scouting so she wants to do all the stuff I don't want to do: paperwork, registration, forms, phone calls, etc, etc. She feels bad because I pretty much run the meetings but I keep telling her that is what I love to do: crafts, songs, etc, etc.
So I don't know about all the shifts, I don't think...but what I do know about is actually working out well for us. My troop is a brand new troop of all 1st time brownies, all in 2nd grade and since the shift made 2nd grade officially the 1st year of Brownies anyway, these girls would have technically been starting late but now they are right on track.
It's a small group of girls and they are so enthusiastic, it's contagious. They love my corny camp songs and I love that they love them!
Whoohoo! Yeah, my brother
Whoohoo! Yeah, my brother did the adventure guides thing too when he was younger after not really getting into the BS thing.
My mom was the leader & I think she'd have been happy to keep going, but when we hit middle school, all the girls in our troop were going to different schools, and I was getting really busy with ballet & yeah, there was the whole "cool" issue. In retrospect, I kinda wish I'd kept at it, but... you know... teenagers...
Aren't the girls sweet? They're all super enthusiastic about everything at our troop too. Our troop is a mix, there's one Daisy (M2), a whole bunch of Brownies, and three or so Juniors (including M1). There's three troop leaders, so they do a bunch of stuff together at the beginning and at the end, and then they break off into their groups to do the age specific stuff.
The program has shifted -- they've done a bunch of research, talked to girls to find out what girls were wanting from the program & how it would fit into their lives better as well as research into how we can raise healthier girls, girls who are willing and capable to take on leadership positions, etc, etc. It's really awesome. If you're interested in reading the research, they've got a whole section of their site dedicated to the research they do -- http://www.girlscouts.org/research/. Of course, I'm a hyuge geek & love reading research study results. Heh. The more I read about the girl scouts, the more impressed I am with the organization. I love the new books they've got too. Pretty awesome.
Is your troop using the journey books & stuff too?
I've been trying to think of an angle to write about Girl Scouts for hipmama, but I'm not quite sure what approach to take...
"Do not forget. Remember and warn."
-- Plaque fixed to the hollow shell of Sarajevo's National Library
"Do not forget. Remember and warn."
-- Plaque fixed to the hollow shell of Sarajevo's National Library
I'm definitely going to follow that link when I find a minute..
Oh man you should totally find a way to write about Girl Scouts! There's so much more progressive than BS. Even the GS law on their website says "...On my honor I will try to serve god*.." Yes, with an asterisk and then tells you at the bottom you can substitute whatever you want in there. You can be sure that's how I've taught my troop, too.
And for an example of sweet enthusiastic girls, we're working on the "Earth is our Home" try-it and we had to make natural cleansers. We made a vegetable oil/lemon juice wood polish and I had no idea that they would be SO SO into it, they were all dying to get home to polish wood. So funny.
I bet there were some happy
I bet there were some happy mommies getting all their stuff dusted & polished, if your troop's anything like my girls!
I SO love the asterisk. Juliette Gordon Low was one fascinating, bold woman too. She had an airplane badge for Girl Scouts something like five years before women got to vote. She lost most of her hearing as an adult & it seems like nothing that happened in her life slowed her down. She was just totally awesome & fearless!
Ok. I'll try to get something put together on Girl Scouts... No promises on timing (December is totally crazy), but I do really want to do something.
"Do not forget. Remember and warn."
-- Plaque fixed to the hollow shell of Sarajevo's National Library
"Do not forget. Remember and warn."
-- Plaque fixed to the hollow shell of Sarajevo's National Library
How about?
A tent and then underneath it sew"Camping; it's in tents" (Get it?)
that's cute!
I like it! Kind of exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for, somewhat corny so the girls like it but not too too corny that I'm embarrassed to wear it!
can you embroider fake badges on it?
With funny themes, like "Getting lost" or "Marshmallow supplier" or something?
Sunflower the unflower
Mom's Tinfoil Hat
Foodie loves Picky
Sunflower the unflower
Mom's Tinfoil Hat
Foodie loves Picky
you almost made me spit my milk
with marshamallow supplier!
Funny!!!