Oakwood Service Unit
For Parents
What is Girl Scouting?
Girl Scouts provides, as it always has, the best opportunities for girls to get the experiences and tools they need to be successful leaders now and throughout their lives. The Girl Scout Leadership Experience engages girls in:
- Discovering themselves
- Connecting with others, and
- Taking action to make the world a better place.
These discoveries happen through the Girl Scout program, which is intentionally designed to be:
- Girl Driven – by the girls, for the girls.
- Experiential – learning by doing.
- Cooperative – working in small groups and teams.
- Non-Formal – intentional learning activities with girls directing the outcome.
With their Girl Scout leaders, girls team with one another to implement their own troop activities, based on their interests. In addition to helping girls take ownership of their experience, Girl Scout leaders ensure all activities are grade-appropriate and based on the Girl Scout Leadership Experience, as well as on the Girl Scout Promise and Law. They encourage each girl to express her feelings and ideas in this all-girl, girl-driven environment and to build leadership skills through the girl/adult planning approach.
Parent's Guide
A Parent's Guide to Girl Scouting is published each year by our council and has lots of very helpful information for parents. The guides are distributed to leaders through the service unit. If you do not receive a guide, ask your leader for one.
Get Involved in Your Daughter's Girl Scout Experience!
You can make a great impact in your daughter's Girl Scout experience by volunteering with her troop for as little as one hour per month by:
- Providing transportation for troop trips
- Making telephone calls
- Keeping troop records
- Creating a troop newsletter
- Assisting with badge activities
You can also take on an even more exciting role as:
- Troop leader
- Co-leader
- Troop treasurer
- Troop Cookie Manager
- Troop Fall Product Sale Manager
Insignia
Click on the following links to find out where to put all those Daisy petals, Brownie Try-Its, Junior badges, and Cadette/Senior/Ambassador Interest Project Patches!
Family Partnership Campaign
Cookie Sale
Fall Product Sale
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Oakwood Service
Unit 422
Last updated: 08/23/2010