‘(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?)
