Were you in the Scouts, 4-H club, Blue Birds, etc? Maybe you were a leader?

Question

I did 4-H for a very short time. I had no lambs or horses so it wasn't that much fun. I made an apron though!

I was a browine and proud to wear my uniform to school on meeting days. My mom was an assistant leader. When I got into junior high, the entire Girl Scout troop refused to wear the uniform to school. Eventually, the scouts disolved for me.

I was a Cub Scout leader for two years for my son. They wore their uniforms to school. I never see Scouts anymore unless they are selling cookies. Where did the pride go?

Answer 1

I wanted to be a Girl Scout in the worst way, but the elementary school that I attended had a very clique-ish group of girls and they wouldn't let me in the troop. My Dad bought me a scout handbook anyway and in it I found that I could write to the Girl Scout headquarters and ask for a pen pal. I had several pen pals in Australia that were a lot of fun to write to. I did that for several years until I got into my teens.

Answer 2

I was a brownie as well, with the little brown uniform and beanie, the whole 9 yards. Got several patches on my banner. I believe I had homemaking, sewing & skating, etc., and even partipated in a huge jamboree of some kind where tons of us got together from all over the state in special outfits, but by the age of 10-11 I'd outgrown all that. Once I hit puberty, life changed overnight into much wider aspects of life.

These days, the young girls are so advanced in their knowledge of the world and at such younger ages too. The schools and churches offer all manner of sporting and social arenas and society itself with its cellphones & computers has literally outmoded social groups like the brownies and girlscouts and bluebirds. It's a whole different day now.

To be noted is the fact that Boy Scouts was rudely awakened to the incidence of Predators among them and I think that's had a lot to do with why parents and kids have just dropped it altogether as a healthy arena for their boys.

In days gone by, it was a lot of fun for us though wasn't it.

Answer 3

I was a Bluebird, and a Camp Fire Girl, and then a Horizon
Girl in highschool. The best experience I had, didn't occur til
my Senior year summer, and a girlfriend and I went to the
horse ranch at the Camp Fire compound. We had a week of
riding horses, and even learning to leap onto a horses rear
and hop into the saddle from there. Scarey, but I mastered it.
Then when our daughter was in third grade, I was a Camp
Fire leader in S. Calif. for about a year. I had to quit when
three part time jobs were overwhelming me. There was too
much pressure, and not enough time. So my assistant took
over for the last few weeks and they had an awards ceremony.
We had a Campfire Mint candy sale. I saw they were twice
as thin as when I had sold them while still in highschool.

Answer 4

I was a boy scout in the school years ago. There were no other voluntary organisations In India at the time.There was also a stigma attached to scoutson account of its foreign origin and the solemn oath we had to take for enforlment of being loyal to government as by law established.India was under British rule at the time and the origin of the movemet in Britain(Lord Baden Powel)was contraindication.Our leader assuaged our hurt feelings by telling us that the oath was meant for being true to your motherland.which,however, did not convince us much. We,however, did enjoy the association since the uniform,the discipline,the responsibilities entrusted to us were all a novelty at the time. Party organisations like RSS,RSD were still far ahead in the womb of time.We enjoyed the discipline, the drills,the duties during fairs and the need to do some good deed daily.,the jamborees with their military discipline.However, it was rather galling to find that the society in which we lived at the time did not much approve our association with Scouts. This made our association rather short-lived.However, the value of discipline and duty inculcated us during our association remained with us throughout life.

Answer 5

I was a Brownie, Girl Scout, and in 4-H..I also was a Cub Scout Den Mother..I am still in contact with 8 of my fellow
4-Hers 55 years later.

Answer 6

I don't know either. Both institutions used to be fine places for young people to learn new experiences and develop friendships that lasted decades. Maybe it is the time, or maybe it is just the way 'we' were. You already know what kind of a Boy Scout I was. I didn't quite make Eagle Scout. Got into it with the scoutmaster and beat him up. He always favored his son over everyone else and his son was so stupid he couldn't tie his own tie, without Daddy's help, yet Daddy awarded him a merit badge for being able to tie all of the knots in the Boy Scout Manual. Last straw for me. They kicked me out for that.

Answer 7

I was a Brownie & a Girl Scout in northeastern Ohio. We went on a lot of picnics along Lake Erie, attended Girl Scout camp, marched in the parades down Main Ave, in our city of 2500 or so, sold cookies, went Christmas caroling, etc. What great memories.

Answer 8

I wanted so badly to be a girl scout when I was in elementary school. My mommy could not afford to pay the dues or buy the uniform and accessories, so I missed out. When my son wanted to join the cub scouts you know I made sure that he was in it.

Answer 9

Yep, two years in the Cubs and three years in the Boy Scouts, ended up as Patrol Leader of the Buffalo patrol. Great times! Whatever happened to "bob-a-job" week?

Answer 10

I was a Girl Scout for 6-7 years. I loved it, we went camping a lot and I learned so many things. I was in 4-H just a short time, but I did get a blue ribbon for demonstrating how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. lol