# You don't like it, you be the Brownie leader! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 12, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-like-it-you-be-the-brownie-leader/578148 "2011-04-12T21:53:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 121
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2011, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-like-it-you-be-the-brownie-leader/578148/121 "2011-04-14T15:07:34Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#): > > I’m sure that **boozilu** and the other Girl Scout leaders can back me up here. One of the problems that many scout troops – Boy and Girl Scouts alike – face is that too many “leadership” and “outdoors” and “civic engagement” activities get boring fast for a lot of the participants, so they drop out after a year or two. They can also be a PITA for the leader to plan, especially when they don’t get support from the other parents, so leaders sometimes don’t want to stick around. This is not good for any organization. > > If you don’t support the ways that Scout troops choose to spend their money, then don’t buy their products. It’s as simple as that. You have to keep the girls engaged in order to keep them Scouts. Most girls are not interested in an organization that only has them picking up trash in parks on Saturdays and visiting Senior Centers. BTW, Girl Scouts is its own charity. The idea is to develop “courage, confidence and character” in the girls. Part of the way they do that is through service to the community - but when you buy girl scout cookies, your money isn’t going to fight AIDS or feed the homeless. Its going to programs that Scouts feel build “courage, confidence and character” in girls and young women. I don’t think a spa day builds much courage - but I can make a good case that it develops confidence. And character is developed in working together as a troop to manage your money - and very shortly with these girls - to get together as a troop even when your “very best friends” are not in the troop and you have little in common with the girls in your troop other than they are in your troop. For middle school girls - that right there is a huge character builder. To take TIME to spend with, work with, and support a girl outside your own little clique. Where we don’t encourage that as adults, its something girls loose in late elementary school - and if they are lucky, rediscover as adults. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-dont-like-it-you-be-the-brownie-leader/578148)._