Girl Scouts of America

I was a girl scout. Have to say, I loved the experience and they turned me on to a lifelong hobby...camping. I don't hear much about them anymore. I think that not as many parents encourage their children to join such groups these days. It's possible it's just that way in my town. People around here aren't all that interested in scouting and badges. What a shame. It's a good org.

For the mint cookies alone!

I'm a Boy Scout and there are some things about the Girl Scouts that I get a bit miffed at. I have noticed that at any campout where the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are together the girls get treated better. But other than that it is a great organization, mmmm... cookies.

The organization is wonderful. Like the Boy Scouts, it provides them with lifelong skills and teaches leadership.

Love their cookies and their cause!

Girl Scout Honor. I was a girl scout in third grade and i will never forget the amazing experience. It changed my life and helped me to find my inner girl scout. Girl scout cookies reflect the inner cookie in us all.

Think they should move away from the United way and keep the money they raise for the troops instead of providing big salaries for a few fat cats.

same as the BSA. Good old-fashioned Christian principles.

I was in the Girl Scouts for a couple of years and don't have much bad to say about them. While I was offended by all the religion that was included, I had fun and learned a lot. What pleases me most is that they don't discriminate against gays as the BSA does. I won a couple of badges, sold a few boxes of cookies, and did some other fun stuff. But as CastleBee pointed out, the "Girl Scout moms" were so terribly annoying. Their daughters were always the ditsy, bratty, spoiled ones who cried when I could shoot a bow-and-arrow better than they could. And they were always the ones who won't work, wear too much makeup, and squealed when they talked. So I had to take off a point or two for this. Take care, everyone!

How could you not love those cookies?

I was a member of this organization for about 2 years as a child. For the most part, the whole experience pretty much bored me the color of the little uniforms we wore. I won’t say it was a total loss – I earned a few badges, sold some cookies and got a certain sense of accomplishment – albeit very slight - from that. The most interesting thing I took part in was not at a troop meeting or function – but at our Children’s Museum when I studied for the “Indian Lore” badge. This turned out to be more of a life lesson than the GSA had intended because it was when I began to learn just how much of a shaft Native Americans received in the 19th century and before. It was the mid 1960’s when people were just starting to pull their heads out of old westerns and realize there were two sides to that story. The man who taught this class presented the other point of view not in a radical or hateful way, but one appropriate to 4th grade children, which in at least in one case, made a very deep... Read more

It's a nice group for girls to meet and have fun and learn stuff. I wish we could have done more camping and outdoor stuff like the boy scouts did. We had to do so many crafts. Ugh! Maybe things have changed from 15 years ago.