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(Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies Photo credit: Wikipedia)
‘Tis the season…. and I managed to convince my husband to stop at three boxes this year. And that whole conversation reminded me of a favorite post called Samoas, Trefoils and ThinMints – Oh, My!
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Confession: I was more than a little surprised the other day when my assistant asked me about the “nature of my issue with Girl Scout cookies.” I didn’t think I had one. So she reminded me that in the past week or so I had:
- been quick to add a comment to parent coach Keyuri Joshi’s blog post on the topic
- sparked a minor controversy in my VolunteerSpot post on effective fundraising
- and perhaps may have even forwarded said posts to some of the direct selling friends and clients in my life who just may have gotten just a hair carried away “helping” their daughters and granddaughters sell cookies.
Hmm. Yep – I did all of that. But my “issue” is not with Samoas, Trefoils or Thin Mints… or girls in scouting. If my primary job as a parent is to prepare my child for adult life then I need to resist the temptation to make a habit of doing FOR them the things they need to do for themselves. (I didn’t build my son’s Pinewood Derby car either – does that make me a Tiger Mom?)
(Here’s the rest of my original post.)
