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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (26492)12/6/1998 10:34:00 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
<I really never saw the point in being a Boy Scout. The things scouting is supposed to teach are much better taught by parents, with no need for psuedo-military uniforms and some outdated stiff-upper-lip (but not much else)British ritualism.>

Steve, I pretty much agree with you on this one. Most of the child rearing books I read advised against activities like scouting, because they teach emotional rigidity, conformity and all sorts of militaristic values.

However, as a child I really loved being a Brownie. While I have read a lot of critical things about Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts seem to be more liberally run. I don't remember anything about God at all, just a lot of very fun camping and sing-alongs and cookie selling.
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