‘Girls Take Action Summit’ coming up
Growing up, I was an active Girl Scout. I started as a Pixie Scout in kindergarten,(Pixies later became Daisies) moved up to Brownies in elementary school and graduated to the Girl Scout green after that. I loved my days as a Girl Scout. I have such fond memories of Girl Scout camps, selling cookies, weekly meetings when we would do arts and crafts, learn self defense, tour interesting places and meet inspiring people.
When my daughter was old enough, I enrolled her in Girl Scouts. I was even a group co-leader for a year. I think Girl Scouts is a wonderful organization and that all girls should at least have a chance to try scouting out for themselves.
This year’s “Girls Take Action Summit” is from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Nov. 23 at the Douglas High School Auditorium.
Here’s an e-mail I received in response to my column from October 26 about the unrealistic body image Barbie presents to young girls. The e-mail is from Deborah Gooding, director of marketing and communications for Girls Scouts- Western Oklahoma, Inc.
“I just wanted to let you know how important your column on “image of women” is to girls today. At Girl Scouts, we are working through a program called “Uniquely Me!” to address the very issues you raised in your article. I encourage you to learn more about what we are doing locally to address this issue through Girl Scouts.You can view some of our materials here: http://www.gswestok.org/uniquelyme/ also encourage you to scroll down to the bottom of the page and watch the video called “Onslaught” – it is graphic but the point is very clear.
We are hosting a special event in OKC on Nov. 23 where Uniquely Me will be among the featured topics (along with Forever Green projects, robotics and more). It will be at Douglas High School. You can view the details here: http://www.swiftpage3.com/CampResource/2V0KIOM6DX7GM72Y/3/text.pdf”
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