50 Reasons for Being a Girl Scout Leader

As a Girl Scout Leader you will……

1. Stay young by serving the young.
2. Share fun times with your daughter.
3. Meet other great leaders.
4. Make and eat s’mores.
5. Expand your own skills and talents.
6. Create memories.
7. Promote positive values in youth.
8. March in parades.
9. Get to know your daughter’s friends.
10. Encourage girls to “Be Their Best.”
11. Get lots of help.
12. Make a difference in others.
13. Dabble in a wide variety of subjects.
14. Sleep in museums.
15. Develop positive self esteem in girls and women.
16. Extend the sisterhood of Girl Scouting to all girls.
17. Grow by trying new things.
18. Make new friends.
19. Go horseback riding.
20. Help girls become well-rounded individuals.
21. Model leadership and initiative.
22. Get to know your daughter’s friends’ parents.
23. Make a contribution to your community.
24. Improve your resume.
25. Go beyond your own limitations.
26. Build wonderful memories.
27. Learn about other cultures.
28. Offer girls a haven away from the stress’ and demands of every day life.
29. Try new things and go new places at a discount.
30. Network with other adults with similar interests.
31. Guide girls into adulthood in a positive manner.
32. Learn new skills.
33. Live life to the fullest.
34. Become known in your school as an active parent.
35. Experience the joy of a child’s admiration.
36. Let your daughter see you in a new light.
37. Brush up on your organizational skills.
38. Teach girls life skills such as goal setting and budgeting.
39. Never miss out on girl scout cookies.
40. Enjoy the adventure of seeing a girl try something new.
41. Get to know your daughter’s better.
42. Teach girls good values that will stay with them the rest of their lives.
43. Contribute to the well being of the girls in your neighborhood.
44. Sing around a campfire.
45. Give back to scouting what was given to you as a girl/boy scout.
46. Offer opportunities to the girls that they might not otherwise have.
47. Help girls become self sufficient.
48. Explore and encourage diversity in your community.
49. Make an impact on other’s lives.
50. HAVE FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Smile in One Girl’s Eyes

Sometimes I get discouraged,
My time is not my own.
If I’m not going somewhere.
I’m always on the phone.
Reminding someone’s mother,
Of a stray permission slip.
Whose loss would cause disaster,
To our upcoming field trip.
I’m dashing out to get supplies,
(I think I’m going daft!)
Whose idea was this ?
Can we really do this craft?
And then there are the cookies-
On the chairs and on the floor.
My home has twice as many,
As the local grocery store.
Even when I’m sitting still,
my brain is overheating.
Searching for a game or song,
to liven up the meeting.
Just when I am exhausted,
Too tired to move again.
A small eruption at the door-
The girls are coming in!
I draw a breath on wonder,
and ask myself “oh why?”
Then I’m almost toppled,
by a bear hug, just knee high.
The room is full of laughter,
and suddenly I see.
That I really cannot think,
of a better place to be.
Yes, I’m a Girl Scout Leader,
and I guess that’s no surprise.
And everything I do is worth,
the smile in one girl’s eyes.

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A Creed for the Volunteer Leader

To foster creativity rather than conformity
to guide rather than goad
to clarify rather than confuse
to support rather than supplant
to respect rather than judge
to motivate rather than captivate
to listen rather than tell
to encourage rather than discourage
to link rather than divide
to innovate rather than imitate
to free rather than limit
to make independent rather than dependent.
–Dr. Eva Schindler-Rainman

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Everything I need to know, I learned from being a Girl Scout Leader

1. Green is always an appropriate fashion statement.
2. There is no such thing as trash, only future craft supplies.
3. Sleeping under the stars is invigorating to the soul.
4. You can survive in the wilderness with a flashlight and a pocketknife.
5. Girl Scout cookies have no fat and no calories.
6. Walk softly and carry a copy of Safetywise.
7. Always travel with a buddy.
8. Don’t cry over spilled paint and don’t sweat the small stuff.
9. Girls like to be seen and heard.
10. No song is too silly to sing and nobody sings off key.
11. Working on a team is much easier than working alone.
12. Plans gone awry can lead to the very best times.
13. That responsibility, opportunity, hard work and success are all related.
14. Girls really can rub two sticks together to make a fire.
15. You can learn something from the tiniest Girl Scout.
16. Good friends are like silver and gold.
17. There is no substitute for advance preparation.
18. There is no such thing as failure, only a change in plans.
19. You are never too old to try new things.
20. Leadership is a two way street.
21. Sharing knowledge is truly a path to immortality.
22. Never let petty politics keep you from your mission.
23. Patience really is a virtue.
24. If a Girl Scout Leader can’t do it, nobody can.
25. A girl’s smile is worth a thousand words.
26. If they are leading or succeeding, they probably were a Girl Scout.

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