The teeny girls get to be Daisies?? Too cute.

Yep! Daisies are ages 5 and 6 or so. IIRC, the activities mostly consist of learning the Girl Scout pledge, eating cookies, and making craft projects. ("On my honor, I will try to serve G-d and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law." "I will do my best: to be honest, to be fair, to help where I am needed, to something or other, to be a sister to every Girl Scout." Hmm. I seem to have lost a bit of the Girl Scout Law somewhere along the way.)

One of many positives of finally officially coming out to my family is that they seem to have shifted politically to the left. They are Southern Catholic Republicans who now want same-sex marriage legalized and are happy as can be about their soon-to-be grandchild, gay parents or not. It's been quite a thing to behold.

The teeny girls get to be Daisies?? Too cute.

The new-ish breakdown is this:

K - 1st grade = Daisy Scout
2nd - 3rd grades = Brownie
4th - 5th grades = Junior Scout
6th - 8th grades = Cadette Scout
9th - 10th grades = Senior Scouts
11th - 12th grades = Ambassador scouts.

Back when I was a scout (cue tumbleweed), there were no Daisies.

Huh. Looks like the Girl Scout Law has changed a bunch of times over the years. [link] The 1972 version is the one I remember learning.

happy as can be about their soon-to-be grandchild

Grandchildren uber alles?

Ambassador Scouts is new. When I was in high school, all the high school grades were Senior Scouts. And Cadette for us started in seventh grade, not sixth.

Last time I was there, I had to sleep with my head six inches from Michael Savage's "Liberalism is a Mental Illness," or whatever it's called. In a stack of similar books. With a box of ammunition sitting on the floor.

::sigh:: Oh, family.

My brother has the magical ability to debate with G-pa without losing his shit, so I'm going to leave that to him.

Thanks for the Barney links, I've seen them. My favorite comment was one on Gawker - "Just to keep score - we've now had a black guy, a gay guy and an Israeli Jew who have all been accused of being Nazis. Kids, this is what happens when you sleep through history class."

Fortunately, I literally have to step away from the computer now. ::deep breaths::

Girl Scout Law:

I will do my best to be: honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong, and responsible for what I say and do, and to respect myself and others, respect authority, use resources wisely, make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout.

The new one. As Hill points out, it has been changed over the years. I learned the 1972 one, too.

Which is better: Girl Scout Law or Ape Law? Do Girl Scouts have a Lawgiver?

Glen Beck

I should be extremely happy I don't know who is he, right?

(And just today I ran into the understanding that yes, my country is not the same as others. And other people don't have the same worries as the people here. And I was envy of them, for a minute. I was listening to some very folkish-pop music and couldn't help but thinking "wow, is that all they can write about?" - it's not like we're low on folkish-pop-cheap-songs, but there's always the mention or the mood of war/something going on on the background that's there. Sorry, I guess the moving affects me. The sis yelled at me for acting selfish for refusing to move to Ma'ale Adumim - a settlement, and it got to me.)

{{smonster}} families can be hard.