how to buy Girl Scout cookies

[wanton_heat_jet]

Selling Girl Scout cookies is not just a money-maker. It's also a way for girls to learn to set goals and work toward them. That's all part of GS's scheme to turn little girls into the leaders of tomorrow. So before you buy cookies, ask the seller what her goal is, how close she is to her goal, and that sort of thing. Reinforce the lesson that the

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[keterys]

For many of them, it also teaches valuable delegation skills (parents, do the work!) which will clearly aid them later in life. Right? ;)

delegation

[wanton_heat_jet]

In my experience, both in Girl Scouts and in Destination Imagination, by the time kids are this age the parents are already distressingly well trained to do the work that their kids could be doing. And any work the kids _can_ do, they _should_ do. But short-sighted parents would rather do something themselves quickly and get it over with than watch their kids do the same thing themselves, just more slowly.