23 January 2009
Door-To-Door Charity Work
Posted by admin under: cookies .
Grace in New York has a plantive plea to the Girl Scouts in her (big) town. Help!
I wrote about my beloved tagalongs a few weeks ago and my friends and I were just pondering this over email. There don’t seem to be any girl scouts out this year! Where are they? I want my tagalongs (and samoas too… they’re almost as good!)
And so my friends, Please Help! If you have a girl scout in your life, send her my way!!!!
Cookie sales in Los Angeles begin tomorrow with the pre-order form for cookies that will be delivered in March (technically on February 28th, but don’t hold your breath). In one of our recent meetings we talked to the girls very seriously about selling their hearts out this year because we’re travelling to Washington D.C. on a troop trip this summer. It costs a lot of money so we told the girls they need to sell like the wind – or something that sells a lot.
At the Cadette age, girls feel awkward. They’re in middle school or junior high depending on what your school district calls it and many of them are starting puberty, seriously partaking in popularity politics, and associate the cookie selling with their younger, less-cool selves. Many girls like my daughter mostly win this battle, but all of them feel much more self-conscious than they did when they were small. They’ll go for the guaranteed sale: grandpa, family friend, and close acquaintences, but balk at going door to door. We tried to set them straight.
Grace is out there. She’s been waiting all year long for a young, female entrepreneur to cheerfully and hopefully pitch her on what she’s been dying to buy anyway. Sure, there are some Nurse Ratched’s, but parents should be accompanying their daughters and can defuse that situation and explain that some people haven’t learned the part of the Girl Scout law to be “considerate and caring”. In just a few hours in our neighborhood last year my daughter added over 40 boxes to her sales total. The Graces are waiting and hoping and the Girl Scouts are really doing a good deed by coming to them and offering the best cookies money can buy. In the process, they’re also learning how to cope with “No” and taking responsibility for paying for their own activities.
So, get your daughter out there. Do the good work only Girl Scouts can do. Grace is waiting.
P.S.: If you click the Girl Scout Cookies web site here they’ll let you know if cookies are being sold in your area.
Update: Paige Agnew agrees with me.
- GSUSA Leadership Focus Panics Cookie Buyers
- Missouri Gets Jump on Cookie Season
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- Markita Inspires a Generation Later
- Only 11,000 Boxes Is Easy Says Girl Scout
