AnneinMpls

PB&J? How unenlightened... Make mine a big bowl of Manhattan clam chowder, especially on Fridays Peace out, Anne in Mpls Newbie Catholic (raised Baptist/UU/Methodist/Hindu...it was the 60's. ok?)

Many apologies folks...I didn't know that my back button would resubmit the posting. Peace out, Anne in Mpls (Don't encourage her! She'll just say it again!) ("Looking for a sampling"? No, first you determine your sampling method, and then you obtain your samples. Ethically. Either with full disclosure or with a firmly defended and approved research proposal requiring non-disclosure. Hence my asking whether you've put anything before your IRB)

Hi Gary, not sure what your background is in terms of becoming a Family Life Merit Badge Counselor. Do you think Genograms or an introduction to Family Systems theory would help in getting them to think about their place in their family? Family Roles can be a good one to get started with - this theoretical model of the family grew out of research on military flight crews and how their success was dependent upon having someone who was technically talented, and one who provided a nurturing role to the crew - cf Family Theories by Klein & White. Mayhaps too technical...I did a presentatio

For any joint activity to work and be worthwhile, it needs to meet the goals and needs of all the groups involved. I can see the needs of Brownies and Juniors being met by learning outdoor skills. I can see the Cadette and Senior needs being met through leadership experience in planning the program and providing instruction. I guess you'll need to determine (the PLC rather) whether the program meets *their* goals and needs, and if it doesn't, see if there is some way to offer input toward making the joint venture more profitable to both (although I do have to kinda laugh at the turnabout- G

There's also one in the Junior Leader Handbook (mine might be a slightly out of date edition...havn't seen the newest ones since I'm not currently a Boy Scouter...)

Sctmom, I'm not sure I could ask him to come do the fire safety talk for our girls with a straight face Ozemu's got a good idea there - one I'd already considered. Unfortunately, by the time he gets back from his turn on the fire crew, it will be hunting season for the woodies, so we can't be trapping and banding them then. (Can you tell I've been learning way too much about ducks lately? I am sooooo all about the ducks now!) He did however give our troop a large display area to work on and was almost specific about not wanting us to get it put up too soon Big blank space in the visito

Hmmm, you don't sound like any academically trained researcher I've encountered before. Has your research proposal been shown to your institution's IRB? What is your research methodology? Where is the informed consent? *Who* or What is your institutional affiliation? What has your review of published literature told you so far? What's your sampling method? How bout your hypotheses? You havn't even given us a barebones understandable description of the purpose of your research, thus you're not even close to obtaining informed consent. Go away. Come back when you grow up and have a clu

Hmmm, you don't sound like any academically trained researcher I've encountered before. Has your research proposal been shown to your institution's IRB? What is your research methodology? Where is the informed consent? *Who* or What is your institutional affiliation? What has your review of published literature told you so far? What's your sampling method? How bout your hypotheses? You havn't even given us a barebones understandable description of the purpose of your research, thus you're not even close to obtaining informed consent. Go away. Come back when you grow up and have a clu

Hmmm, you don't sound like any academically trained researcher I've encountered before. Has your research proposal been shown to your institution's IRB? What is your research methodology? Where is the informed consent? *Who* or What is your institutional affiliation? What has your review of published literature told you so far? What's your sampling method? How bout your hypotheses? You havn't even given us a barebones understandable description of the purpose of your research, thus you're not even close to obtaining informed consent. Go away. Come back when you grow up and have a clu

Just to clarify, there have always been lone Girl Scouts, by reason of no troops close by, girls living in isolated areas, etc. It's only been in the last couple years that they have had a special "Juliettes" patch to wear. But, it sure seems to me, that if your town doesn't have even *one* Girl Scout troop, you should have no trouble recruiting to fill one! Keep in mind, you are not limited to one age level either - in our Council multi--program level troops are called "group troops" - you can have any range of girls meet together from Daisies on up to Seniors - you simply need to follow t

The Religious Awards available to Girl Scouts are detailed in each of the Leader Handbooks, which is a really stupid place to put the information, because Leaders are proscribed from having direct involvement with the Religious Award programs in their Leader capacity. They really ought to put the information in the *Girls'* Handbooks, so it is accessible to the girls and their families.

Hops_Scout, do you think this is as it should be in your unit?

Such incidents are perhaps less common in our part of the galaxy but do happen. I was helping out with my foster daughter's troop at a Service Unit Encampment many years ago, when the troop leader noticed a Brownie (2nd grader) had poured too much ketchup on her plate (I think we all understand about young people and occasional lapses in fine motor control, eh?). The troop leader handed the girl a spoon and made her eat all of it...My foster kiddo and I spent the rest of the weekend hunting for a new troop to join. I'm especially disappointed in myself though, because while I did say t

LOL! Alright, long as I got y'all reading, Call or not call? He insisted on giving me his cellphone number but that was before the fire crew thing came up...

rotflol!!!!!! Only a guy would take that as a compliment No, seriously, I meant that in the *nicest* way, really I did :)

Mel Brooks' To Be or Not To Be Bringing Up Baby (Baby is a lion cub...) The *new* Freaky Friday (normally I boycott Disney - Forgive me Father for I have sinned...I was given free tickets and it was ...really good) Only You (not sure how this one would play in this testosterone-smogged room )

Hehe, well, I sure havn't been expecting to meet a great single guy in Girl Scouting If I were being methodical about this, I'd get signed up again to help with a Boy Scout troop Speaking of Eagle Scouts, I woulda married one, except he was too nice to insist when I was a silly person way back when...couldn't handle the intensity of being in love with him, so went off and married someone who was a real jerk There's a summertime blockbuster film in there somewhere I'm sure! So, anyhoo...we git ourselves up at 6 this morning to do the birdbanding, even though we were getting a stand-in,

Hi Jamie - I had another thought about your Gold Award project... There already is a whole lot about general camping knowledge available in libraries and online, but what's *really hard to find* are guides to how to get into the outdoors in your own community. It took me a full year of researching to find a "cabin camping" situation that would be workable for our very large Brownie troop (we found an awesome youth hostel to stay at a state park) You could help families in your community by pointing the way to the really neat stuff in your area - and you could have different chapters on "f

Hi Jamie - I had another thought about your Gold Award project... There already is a whole lot about general camping knowledge available in libraries and online, but what's *really hard to find* are guides to how to get into the outdoors in your own community. It took me a full year of researching to find a "cabin camping" situation that would be workable for our very large Brownie troop (we found an awesome youth hostel to stay at a state park) You could help families in your community by pointing the way to the really neat stuff in your area - and you could have different chapters on "f

Hi Jamie, I'm wondering in your Council do they allow Gold Award projects to serve the Girl Scout community?

So tomorrow morning, my Brownie troop was going to get to do bird banding with this...sweet guy at the fish and wildlife service...he called me this morning to say someone else would be filling in because he was leaving today to go fight a wildfire in Montana. (Yha...I'm a single mom, he's a single dad, we got to talking at youth fishing day and he invited us to come do the birdbanding thing...he loves working with scouts.) Doesn't help my friend is pointing out that he's very nice looking, good with kids, and the type that drops everything to go do big strong manly things like fighting fore

Ok, this hardly compares to what's already been shared. I am in awe! But, ok, so, I had this favorite parka that I always wore on campouts and hikes and things, and it had this long burn mark right across the front of it across one side pocket. Now the truth is, I had left it over the back of one of the kitchen chairs, and my stepdad had pushed the chair up against the radiator overnight. But what I always told the girls was, that it was Struck by Lightning jacket. No one ever questioned it. Not sure quite what that says about me....

ARC Lifeguard Training has absolute *no* boating safety components to it at all. (I just recertified a couple weeks ago). I would expect it would cover topics in Safe Swim Defense, except...well, I think every organization needs to maintain responsibility for putting forth their own policies...Also, not every ARC Lifeguard course includes the Waterfront Module, so kinda useless unless you're at a swimming pool.

A couple concepts come to mind: Scaffolding - this is a term from the child development field to describe behaviors of parents training their children - young toddler wants to build a tower of blocks - parent steadies the tower as necessary so the kiddo can do the part he is capable of doing and most enjoys. As proficiency develops, parent provides less and less "support", perhaps moving physically away too, giving words of encouragment where once it was a physical support. progression - breaking tasks down into manageable portions and simpler tasks preceding more difficult ones. With

Does anyone have links to specific information on the agreement between the ARC and BSA? Thanks! Anne in Mpls