Join Girl Scouts!

On Monday I was driving the kids home from CASA and Reed noticed the signs around the school that said "Join Girl Scouts – 7 p.m. tonight!". He said "Amy, you should join Girl Scouts."

What?

I said "Amy's been a Girl Scout since kindergarten! What did you think the Daisy and Brownie meetings were all about?"Apparently he thought it was all related to tae kwon do somehow.

As the kids would say, SMH (shaking my head).

Then I thought about it a little more and realized that we never really call it Girl Scouts - it's always been "Brownie workshop" or "Daisy meeting", never a "Girl Scout meeting". Plus the way Girl Scouts work is so different from the way Cub Scouts has worked – there really aren't any family events that our troop has participated in. Amy's gone to many Cub Scout outings, campouts, and Pack meetings. Reed hasn't gone to a single Girl Scout event.

So I guess it isn't all that outlandish after all that Reed didn't know Amy was a Girl Scout!

P.S. It seems to me that Cub Scouts is organized in a much more family-friendly way than Girl Scouts is. [Well, other than their anti-gay stances, which I am strongly against.] It feels like Cub Scouts is an activity that frequently involves our whole family, not just our Scout or not just our Scout and one parent. I really like that. So far our Girl Scouting experience has been entirely about either just our Scout or our Scout and a parent - as a result, our involvement in Girl Scouting feels so much more limited.