The Boy Scouts have started their fall popcorn sales. The Girl Scouts have started their fall nut and magazine sales, and will be selling cookies in the winter. And many of the candy bar, pizza dough and other product fundraiser sales and events also have begun for non-profit organizations, schools and other youth programs.
How do [...]

Do you want a reason to help your older Girl Scout stay motivated to continue in scouts and earn the Gold Award?
As part of the updated guidelines and procedures for the Girl Scout Gold / Silver / Bronze Awards, Girl Scouts has updated and reposted a scholarship opportunity list for girls who have earned the [...]

One of the things families on a budget can appreciate about school uniform attire is that it can be handed down from one student to the next – and nobody need know there was a hand-me-down because all the students are dressed the same.
Although my daughter didn’t wear uniforms to school, she was in Girl [...]

Tonight at the University of Michigan, nine young women from Southeast Michigan will receive their Girl Scout Gold Award.
This award is equivalent to the Boy Scout Eagle with a lengthy list of requirements and a community service / leadership project that the Scout takes on with approval of her council.
Two years ago, it was my [...]

USA Today has this report: Girl Scout cookie sales crumbling.
A snippet:
National numbers are not yet in, but regional Girl Scout councils nationwide are seeing the impact of the down economy, as well as bad winter weather, in declines as large as 19% in pre-order sales, which took place January through early February.
Pre-order sales— mostly door-to-door [...]

My husband and I watched the CBS Evening News last night and saw this report A New Generation of Eco-Warriers.”
It was an interesting report of how today’s youth, who are increasingly interested in eco-friendly and ecology issues, are influencing their parents to become more aware and more involved in “green” lifestyles.
There’s also been a TV [...]

Shortly after my daughter graduated from Monroe High School in 2007, I posted about all the photo opportunities that come up during a high school senior year.
I knew ahead of time that we had to be very picky about the multiple photo occasions that come up during senior year. But there were some photo opportunities [...]

When my daughter finished ninth grade at Monroe High School, I told her to start a file in the computer called “Big Resume.”
Everything that she did in school, or out of school, went into that resume with dates of participation and notes about accomplishments or efforts. This list was so detailed I think we even [...]

The Huron Valley Girl Scout Council, which is based in Ann Arbor and includes most of Monroe County, has an article in its spring newsletter by Barbara Tucker, a financial planner in Ann Arbor who teaches money management workshops to Girl Scouts.
If you are a leader, volunteer or mom of a daughter involved in Girl [...]

Now about those uniforms … when my daughter joined Girl Scouts in sixth grade, my husband and I made sure she dressed the part.
I knew that a Girl Scout only needs to wear a membership pin to be “official,” that local girls usually wear their Scout vests over T-shirts and jeans to troop meetings, and [...]