“Perfect is the enemy of the good.” You’ve probably seen or heard this quote, or some iteration of it, somewhere before. But how many of us actually take the message to…
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Health & Well-being
Help your girls stay happy and healthy—from advice on promoting good mental health to fun exercises to get their bodies moving.
5 Steps to Teach Girls Conflict Resolution
Everyone in your troop gets along like peas in a pod. When it’s time to partner up for an activity, girls pair off without squabbling about who gets to be…
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Gender Diversity: Help Your Troop Feel Happy and Safe
Today’s youth are increasingly thinking about gender in a more expansive and revolutionary way. For many years a binary idea of gender and gender roles kept people in boxes, limiting who and how they could be, but…
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Dance It Out
When the sun sets before 5 pm and the temperatures hover below freezing for weeks on end, it’s tempting for us Midwesterners to curl up on the couch with a good book (or five) while we…
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The Joys of Teaching Consent
As troop leaders, our girls’ well-being is our number one concern—and given our current culture, where sexual harassment and assault are frequently normalized, it can be easy to constantly worry…
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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Fostering Healthy Self-Image
Peruse any magazine display in the grocery store checkout line and the headlines say it all: A “bikini body” in five easy steps, ten outfits to “impress him,” and four…
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