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.
It's all different here. I believe it's Rainbow Brownies from age 5 to 7, Brownies from 7 to 10, Girl Guides from 10 to 14, and Ranger Guides from 14 to 18.
The promise I learnt as a Brownie was "I promise to love God, to serve the Queen, to help other people, and to keep the Brownie Guide law." And we had a motto that went "A Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself and does a good turn every day."
The queen thing suggests my anti-monarchist socialist streak didn't start developing until I was over 10.
The queen thing suggests my anti-monarchist socialist streak didn't start developing until I was over 10.
We ditched the royal thing a couple hundred years ago. Worked out pretty well. Although Aims might disagree with me.
I totally disagree with you.
t Loyalist since the 1700's when my family told Paul Revere to Suck It.
I just Googled (and asked my scout sis) about the scouts vows here.
It's pretty disappointing. Nothing about being cheerful, though.
We ditched the royal thing a couple hundred years ago. Worked out pretty well.
You're a forward-thinking people.
Though I was in the Scouts for a year, I was always more (and spent more time as) a No'al girl: [link]
Comes to think of that - are there any political youth movements in the U.S.?
Daisy Scouts
Daisy was the nickname of Juliette Gordon Low, who founded the U.S. Girl Scouts. (Yes, I have made the pilgrimage to her birth place in Savannah.)
When the dog barks at something I can't see, I assume it's a cobbly. In Clifford Simak's
City
stories, cobblies are creatures from parallel dimensions that only dogs can sense.
