Showing posts with label Girl Scout History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Girl Scout History. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Back in My Day: Comparing Today's Badges With Those of the Past

Back in the Stone Ages when we had the blue Junior handbook we didn't have any computer-related badges.  Of course back in those days, computers took up entire rooms, cost millions of dollars and could only be operated by experts.  Today, most of us carry a more powerful (and definitely more user-friendly) computer in our pocket/purse all day every day, and it even makes phone calls. That Girl Scout badges have changed should be of no surprise to anyone, but for some, the question is whether they have changed for the better, or the worse.  Today, I'm going to look at a badges that has  stood the test of time--the  "cooking badge"  in the Junior program--because "back in the day" there were no Daisies, Brownies did not earn badges and neither did high school girls.

FYI, the headings below are links to the summarized handbooks.