Any Junior GS leaders do the "Becoming A Teen" Badge?

[gr8tpanther]

Wonder how you went about this. I could use some thoughts, as I am not sure how to approach it.

 

[NCRedding]

I am not a leader but accompanied my DD and her troop on a field trip to a children's museum where a staff member discussed all the details with the girl and showed a film--I believe it was offered through our GS council. I would check with your council to see if any independent resources are available.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Way back when we did this...I can't remember exactly what we did but I do know the girls enjoyed it. I think we sent a note home to parents and asked them to look over the badge and to say it was OK to go over the badge. We did get the parents blessing to do the badge.

That is how we approached it. To be honest it was one of the first badges we did because we had 2 girls who needed to improve hygiene in our troop. It did help!

 

[LBAK]

We also did it with parents permission first. We used a lot of infomation from the American Girls book called The Care & Keeping of You. We copied some of the pages to use. We made a game show out of one meeting using social situations, hygiene and emotions. The girls loved this. We did it like Family Feud. Hope this helps some.

 

[BuzznBelle'smom]

We hope to do this badge next year, so I like the ideas. I'll have to look at it closer. My DD has the Care and Keeping book--in general, I find the American Girl Library books to be really informative while being tasteful. She asked for 2 more that will end up in her easter basket.

P.S. I like the idea of parental permission, or at least awareness.

 

[tkd lisa]

My girls did this when they were Juniors (they're cadettes now). We had a nurse come in to discuss the technical stuff, and we had a couple of teenaged girls come in to talk to them. One of the biggest eye openers was the variety of ages that girls start puberty now adays. At that time, most of the girls were in late 5th grade. Only one girl had started her period, but she had begun at age 9.

All the adults who were usually with the girls talked about our experiences too, which really helped. The girls were able to see that it's not all just gross stuff, and that if we could talk about it, that it wasn't going to be the end of the world for them.

 

[gr8tpanther]

Well, I have been doing research for several days, and I am going to call around to get someone to come in and talk to my girls, but doing the permission thing first. I am going t make it a Mother/Daughter event.