Girl Scouts has taught my daughter

to be a good person
to work hard
to work with a team to accomplish a goal
that hard work= great reward
to be always helpful and kind
to never put others down
to stand up for other people
to stand up for herself
… to help those less fortunate
to always give of her time

that there are people other than her family that love her, support her and are always happy to see her
that she has a voice
that she has worth
that she can make a difference
that her contribution is important
that she can do anything she wants to do, if she is willing to work hard enough for it

She has learned how to camp, she has learned survival skills, she has learned how to plan and run a meeting, she has learned how to participate in and contribute to meetings that others have planned, she has learned how to compromise for the greater good. She has learned so much more than I could ever list on paper.

Because of Girl Scouts, my daughter believes in herself, believes in being a productive member of society, and believes that she can and will do anything she puts her mind to. She has learned skills that she will take with her wherever she goes, and that give her an edge.

My daughter is a beautiful, amazing, incredible young woman with strong beliefs and morals. Girl Scouts contributed greatly to her formation, and for that I will forever be their champion.

Parts of your post cound have been written by me when I was in my 20s — so I fully understand and empathize with the life experiences that have led you to that viewpoint. However, I’ve come to realize that functional families take care of one another — through cooking, sewing, or anything else that needs to be done. It’s not so much doing it for a (gasp!) MAN — it’s working with your spouse to nurture and strengthen the family unit. Or doing it for your kids if there’s no spouse.

I respectfully offer that your strong reaction to learning basic skills has more to do with your mindset than the actual events. Boy Scouts learn similar skills and I doubt they are on a rampage about being expected to be perfect men taking care of WOMEN.

Maybe you should have stayed in a little longer — the point was that you should learn to cook and sew so that you would be self-sufficient and be responsible for you OWN happiness.

As for being a lemming — there’s not much individual thinking in man-hating feminism.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q03SeASYTlI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnZ02QwnI0s

http://www.girlscouts.org/convention/doc/Proposal_1.pdf

It sounds as if they are trying to set the stage for more control at the board level and less at the local level …

http://janechastain.com/2008/07/17/the-girl-scouts-journey-to-the-new-age/

It should be added that as this year’s annual series of channelling sessions, when the spirit entity the Brahma Kumaris believed to be the God Father of all religions and the “angelic form” of their deceased founder Lekhraj Kripalani entered into their psychic medium at their Indian headquarters, they (BapDada) specifically encouraged the Brahma Kumari adherents to target children and schools.

This is being done through “values education” or relaxation programs aimed at children and stress or management programs for involved adults. Individuals are introduced into hypnotic or auto-hypnotic states in which various cathexes or connections are created to their spirit guide, often sub-consciously. These lay the foundations for greater mental surrender in the future from which the leadership profits.

With relationship to Christianity; uniquely, but in accordance with other new age groups, the Brahma Kumaris teach that like their founder Kripalani, Jesus was “possessed” by another spirit called Christ and that after death both continued to take numerous reincarnations degrading and becoming spiritually impure until this day when at some point they will return to a Brahma Kumari center in order to relearn their religion for the next 5,000 year Cycle of Time.

Its not necessary to understand Hindi language, but there are numerous visual introductions produced by the organization on Youtube and elsewhere that evidence such beliefs, the reality of “Destruction” and the godliness of their founder, who they also consider to be the Father of Humanity.

One should not over look the organization’s political ambitions. The leadership predicts that the government of India will hand over power them before Destruction and they are particularly active within the United Nations. An involvement used, or arguably exaggerated, to impress newcomers and give credibility to their belief and practices.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ktWXmfQF8DU&feature=related
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uNxNTO_sbxI&feature=related