INSPIRATIONAL THANK YOU'S

DID YOU KNOW.....
"IT'S BEING A GIRL SCOUT LEADER"

DID YOU KNOW.....

THAT FOR EVERY 100 GIRLS WHO JOIN GIRL SCOUTING....

Only rarely will one be brought before juvenile court.
Four will earn the Girl Scout Gold Award.
Twelve will have their first contact with a church.
Five will earn their church religious award.
One will enter the clergy.
Eighteen will develop hobbies used during their adult life.
Eight will enter a vocation that was learned through a badge or patch program.
Seventeen will be future Girl Scout Volunteers.
One will use her Girl Scouting skills to save a life.
One will use her Girl Scouting skills to save her own live.

THAT IS A PRETTY GOOD RETURN ON AN INVESTMENT IN GIRL SCOUTING!

"IT'S BEING A GIRL SCOUT LEADER"

Please save this and read it on the "tiredest" day you can imagine.

It's the first parent's meeting, hoping you say the right things.

It's helping one of your girls with problems at home find some acceptance.

It's having a girl, the victim of prejudice, ask for advice because she is too embarrassed to ask her mother.

It's seeing the girls jump and scream in excitement when you tell them you are going to camp for the first time in the Spring.

It's the week that has been terribly hectic and you call your co-leader and she says - don't worry - I've got everything under control.

Or the week you both show up at the meeting with nothing to do and the girls take over and come up with their own ideas.

It's understanding your own daughter better by understanding the other girls.

It's staying up I ate gluing their crafts back together after the girls have gone home so that they won't know they did it wrong.

It's planning a big campfire and having all the girls fall asleep - too tired from the day's excitement to participate.

It's soothing a bruised ego or bandaging a cut knee, drying away tears or simply giving a hug for encouragement.

It's giving and sharing, loving and caring.

It's knowing that without people like you and me, Girl Scouting just cannot be.

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