An acquaintance of mine recently contacted me and said that it was “cookie time”.. This meant that his daughter was selling Girl Scout cookies, or so I thought.. Suddenly I was being “pitched”.. I then said, “you don’t sound like your daughter, why isn’t she doing the selling? What will she learn if you do the selling for her?”
“I thought that the idea of the GIRL SCOUT selling the cookies was to allow them to interact, to gain confidence in both public speaking and in the accomplishment of making the sale..”
“Besides, since YOU are doing the ‘selling’, and as I don’t have a child ‘selling’ anything, how do you intend to reciprocate?” (In my home, I refused to “sell” for numerous Boy Scout trips to New Mexico and for hockey gear and teams.. HE “sold” and HE learned..)
I will gladly buy from his daughter.. I’m still waiting..
Family,
The latest from NLTZ:
http://noleftturnz.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/offered-nothing/
Thanks as always,
Larry
Larry,
Good call. Unfortunately too many so called parents don’t think the same way. Then they wonder why their kids aren’t progressing as as well as many of their peers.
Larry,
Extremely good call. This is why we have so many gangs and down right lawlessness in our youth. They have not had to experience life as it should be, because mommy and daddy protected them. I was just reading an article and it said to let your kids fail, they learn from what happens to them. After the failure, you can advise or suggest, but let THEM get back on track themselves.
I used to buy Girl Scout cookies only if the Girl Scout personally ask me to buy them, not their parents.
I learned recently that a small amount of their money goes to Planned Parenthood. I will nver purchase any more cookies. Most scouts and mom don’t know this.
Also, boys that think they maybe a girl can now join Girl Scouts and go on trips and over night camp out with the “real girls”. This is really ruining the once great organization that has helped many girls become strong women.
Failure forms character. And especially in Children.
But most parents will never let precious little janie or johnny take
a hit to their all important, ” self- esteem. ”
I’ve long said that a young boy can learn a hellofa lot more on
forth and goal at the one yard line on a muddy field then he could learn in a week of classroom study. Or telling the bully no and meaning it, in the bathroom.
Reminds me of when I was a “Blue Bird” (do they still have such things?) and then “flew up” to be a Camp Fire Girl – one of the joys of my childhood, which extended will into my late teens & college, when I “flew up” to be a camp counsellor for two seasons!!
Anyway, one of my classmates – also a good friend and neighbor – was also in this same group of Blue Birds, then Camp Fire Girls; but, unlike my working mother, hers was a housewife, but also a VERY stern and determined parent, who worked even harder than my friend sellilng CF mints far & wide! She ordered literally hundreds of boxes and drove my friend EVERYWHERE after school and on weekends to sell as many boxes of mints as possible.
Well, all that work paid off, ’cause she always earned a free week or two at camp because of her high volume of sales – which was due mainly, of course, to her mother who chauffered her hither & yon for the duration of the sale! The rest of us in our little group almost felt like failures by comparison (although, once the high numbers of her sales were known, we pretty much dismissed it – that is, ’til the NEXT season!).
Come to think of it, I haven’t seen a Girl Scout in years. Selling cookies that is. I only have one grandaughter and she is in college but the youngest two of my three grandsons are Boy Scouts. Thing is with that organization it’s popcorn, not cookies. And like you, Larry, I don’t get the courtesy of having my grandson’s calls or visits in selling me any of their wares. Instead I get an e-mail from my daughter telling me “it’s time.” This would not be so obtrusive to me if it were more of a request than it is an order and if I were even allowed to see my grandkids more often than I am, afterall we only live around 20 miles apart.
Be that as it may, the old “don’t be a bad grandpa” guilt trip usually sets in and I fork over the money for variations of popcorn that I swear a mad scientist must have dreamed up.
I do believe I’m going to try your approach this year. It makes a lot of sense to me although if you listen carefully, on a clear night, you may be able to hear my daughter’s response to it from here in Nebraska!
Was just wondering – why would cookie money go to Planned Parenthood, and to what other organizations are ‘innocent monies’ being funneled ?
If organizations such as Planned Parenthood are proud of what they do, why don’t they proudly advertise all of the sources of income ? Are they fearful of losing some funding, due to their questionable practices?
My answer would be – YES .
Just google the Girl Scouts and you will see who they donate to and other things too. I just don’t donate to any organization that would help to promote abortion and I do not support it. Most of the scouts as well as the leaders even know what their hard work selling cookies go to. They only keep a small amount of the money. I think they need to know what they are working for. I’ve always admired the scouts until I found this out.
Since this is a ‘food’ theme, just heard that a so-called “Black Leader ” thinks that it is a good thing for OWEbama to be called the Food Stamp President, for some of the following reasons.
Food stamps are good because they save people from starvation.
” ” ” ” provide jobs for workers.
” ” ” ” provide products to be sold by retailers.
” ” ” ” provide jobs for farmers.
” ” ” ” provide jobs along the distrbution chain.
And the list goes on. Of course he conveniently did not mention the costs involved , nor the problems inherent with the entitlement programs,