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This year marks the 100th year anniversary for the Girl Scouts of America and, in an attempt to focus national attention on girls and the issues they face, they have declared 2012 to be The Year of the Girl.
According to an announcement made by the Girl Scouts Alumnae Association, this campaign is “a celebration of girls, recognition of their leadership potential, and a commitment to creating a coalition of like-minded organizations and individuals in support of balanced leadership in the workplace and in communities across the country.” Continue reading »
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It’s that time of year again. No, I’m not talking about the Super Bowl or that long stretch of winter that makes you feel like it will never end. It’s time for Girl Scout cookies, or as we say in my house, “Suburban Kryptonite.” Those most delicious treats that are almost always timed to arrive in your house just before a snowstorm, so that you find yourself eating an entire sleeve of Thin Mints and then pretending you have no idea what happened to them.
I’m on both sides of this thing. I’m both a dealer and a user. My daughter, a Brownie scout, and I have been successfully moving product for four years. The selling process is supposed to instill young girls with the entrepreneurial spirit and teach them about business, sales, and supply and demand. What it really does is prime them for future disappointment because there is no other legal product that sells itself the way that Girl Scout cookies do. If you sell these things outside a Walmart, people will literally throw their money at you. Continue reading »
Is this a trend? On the heels of a group of Girl Scouts in Ohio boycotting cookie sales to protest the closing of some historical Girl Scout camps, another cookie boycott has surfaced in California.
A group called Honest Girl Scouts released a video on YouTube of a fourteen-year-old girl, identified only as Taylor from Ventura County, California, advocating a boycott of Girl Scout cookies. Taylor’s reason? Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. (GSUSA) allows transgendered children to participate in Girl Scouting.
By late Thursday afternoon, the video had been made “private” on both YouTube and the Honest Girl Scouts website, and was no longer accessible.
In the video, Taylor, who says she has been a Girl Scout for eight years, says that “Girl Scouts describes itself as an all-girl experience. With that label, families trust that the girls will be in an environment that is not only nurturing and sensitive to girls’ needs, but also safe for girls.”
In Hazelwood, Missouri, just like in the rest of the country, Girl Scouts sell cookies to eager customers for just a few weeks out of the year.
One family got creative about their cookie sales. Instead of going door-to-door to elicit sales from their neighbors, they let the customers come to them by setting up a “cookie stand” in their front yard. For six years, the girls did a booming business in girl scout cookies.
Then a neighbor complained about the traffic their cookie enterprise brought to the block. The city shut down their operation for violating zoning laws. Now the girls are suing for the right to sell their cookies.
Girl Scout Cookies!
Forget Klondike bars. The most irresistible dessert in America – at least during this time of year – is the Girl Scout cookie. Everyone has their favorite flavor: mine is Tagalongs, aka Peanut Butter Patties. My friend Lane Moore loves Samoas, also called Caramel DeLites. She wrote about her unending desire for the gooey treats in a post on Jezebel called “The Emotional Cost of Girl Scout Cookies,” in which she revealed something I was shocked to hear.
A 31-year-old woman in Florida was jailed recently for hitting her roommate in the face, chasing her with scissors, striking her with a board, biting her in the breast (hello?!) and hitting her with a sign. What exactly made this grown woman lose it? Her roommate ate her Thin Mints. (As Charlie Sheen would say, “Winning. Duh.”) Continue reading »
Girls Scouts are cutting back on cookie offerings
In response to a rough economic environment, the Girl Scouts are trimming the fat in their cookie catalog, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Little girls will still be hawking cookies at your office and on your doorstep. But you’ll have fewer flavors to choose from, and get fewer cookies per box. Some flavors will now arrive in cheaper plastic packaging, instead of the classic boxes.
It’s hard to imagine the economy intersecting with something as traditional as Girl Scout Cookies, but of course the cookie sales aren’t just a tradition. They’re big business. And since the economy crashed, the scouts have been looking for ways to make their business more efficient.
Fine for them, you say, but what about my cookies? Will I still be able to get my Samoas?
1. Omaha school shooting ends in tragedy
Yet another tragic school shooting hasleft the suspected gunman — a 17-year-old student — and the vice principal dead. It leaves everyone wondering how a kid gets a gun (although in this case the suspected gunman’s father was a police officer, and the gun was allegedly his), and what prompts a kid to do something this frighteningly awful.
2. Elizabeth Edwards omits John Edwards from her will
Just under a month after she passed away from cancer, the details of Elizabeth Edwards’ will were revealed. Most notably, she left instructions for who should care for her minor children in the event that they’re left with no living parents, and she left nothing for her estranged husband, John Edwards. Would the headlines have been less salacious, and could she have spared her kids some additional heartache if she had divorced her lying and cheating husband? Or was she displaying an act of outrageous strength and commitment by dying as she was still married to the man who humiliated her in her final few years of life?
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