New Badge Review: Democracy for Brownies

GSUSA recently released the new badges for 2020. They include Democracy badges for each level.  This is a review of the VTK plans for the Brownie version.

Requirements

According to Badge Explorer, Brownies find out how people in the government decide what rules are made and how they are followed.  

1. Find out about local government
2. Find out about state government
3. Find out about our country's legislative branch
4. Find out about our country's executive branch
5. Find out about our country's judicial branch

When girls earn this badge, they will know the three branches of government--and some of the things each branch is responsible for.

Back In the Day: Comparing Today's Badges with Those of the Past: First Aid

A few months ago I compared today's Junior Simple Meals badge with cooking badges from past programs.  I found it to be an interesting exercise, so today I'm taking a look at First Aid badges over several programs.  The section headers will link you to my source material.

How Girls Can Help Their Country

The book I reviewed was copyrighted in 1916.  It had two badges similar to today's First Aid badges.  The first was called "Ambulance" and the other "Home Nursing". I think both reflected that people in those days were expected to do much more for themselves than even adults do today.  The girls who used this book were between ten and seventeen years old, so were probably closer to today's Cadettes than Juniors. 

Democracy for Juniors: A Review of the New Badge

GSUSA just released this year's new badges.  For the record, I'm disappointed.  I don't think there is anything wrong with any of the new badges, its just that I think they tend to repeat the same themes we already cover well and there are so many areas the girls and leaders want to explore that aren't covered.  That being said, I'm going to have Brownies and Juniors this year, and it is an election year, so I thought I'd take a look at the new Democracy for Juniors badge.