Originally Posted by crochetetc
Originally Posted by Rachel
They are $3.50 here in Iowa. What bothers me about this (gs cookies, magazine sales, etc) is why is it most of the time the parents end up taking these things around to family and work, but the kids never sell any of it. I do understand that most of the time, these things are fundraisers for programs or trips, but what are we teaching the children with it? My rule has always been... I'll buy, but only if I get the speech from the child. Not if its a parent just passing it around at work. I remember walking around the neighborhood as a child and selling magazines. I met a lot of people and it doesn't bother me to talk to people I don't know, is it because I went door to door or is it just my personality??? (I'm not saying door to door is the answer, I realize it isn't as safe for children as it was for me as a kid.)
As the mother of a 7yo brownie, door to door sales is not appealing. I took my husband walking with us when I took her door to door, we spent 2 hours walking the neighborhood to sell 5 boxes. People were rude, we had people look out see us and ignore us, others opened the door said no before she even got words out and slammed the door. Now what is that teaching. After doing it for the first time this year I will not take her again. The sad part is I live in a great neighborhood, really close to the local golf course and filled with older people, probably retired. I would have expected them to at least be nice to her. The only ones that bought cookies and were nice were the younger adults like myself (early 30's). Thankfully she has an awesome Nanny who took the order form to work and sold some boxes for her so she earned her badges.
I did make her help sort and organize all the cookies and write thank you notes to 100 customers.
wow, that's cold... slamming the door on a little girl.