Families

Families can help girls by practicing their sales talk, accompanying girls door-to-door, taking them to work, volunteering for booth sales and monitoring emails sent to family and friends.

Dear Girl Scout Family,
Setting high team goals, building business and communication skills, serving the community — these are some of the powerful themes of action-packed Girl Scout teams. By helping your Girl Scout participate in Cookie Activities, you are encouraging her to discover her unique talents and skills. Girls taking part in Girl Scout Cookie Activities discover the power of girls and adults working together for fun, friendship and purpose. And she will learn life skills that will last a lifetime. Through the Cookie Activity Girl Scouts today are preparing for tomorrow!

Help your Girl Scout set goals for this year’s Cookie Activities. Discuss together her personal and team goals.

Help her set personal goals that will increase her life skills. What would she like to learn? Planning? Decision-making? Public speaking? Entrepreneurship? The goals she chooses should be separate from how many packages of cookies she hopes to sell. Ask her how you can help her reach these personal goals.

Find out her Girl Scout team goals and what plans they have made to use the money earned from their Cookie Activities. Teams that take the time to brainstorm together, and set goals together, typically sell at least 30 more packages per girl. Check with her periodically to see how the team is progressing.

Congratulate her when she is successful. When there are setbacks, help transform her disappointment into a “positive” by asking her what she thinks she may to do differently the next time.

Thank you for encouraging and supporting your Girl Scout in all of her Girl Scout and Cookie Activities.

Your friends at Girl Scouts of Central Maryland and Little Brownie Bakers.