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Belonging & Well-Being

What do you do when your daughter says she does not fit in?

Start by not fixing it. Girls who feel heard at home take more social risks at school, and belonging gets built in small repeated moments rather than in one big conversation.

Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

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How much screen time is actually too much?

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Girl Scouts IRL

Ten badges a troop can finish outdoors before the first snow

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Growing Up Today

What age should a girl get her first phone?

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

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Leadership & Life Skills

How to run your first troop meeting when you are the youngest one there

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

Girl Scouts IRL

Five questions to ask yourself before you set a cookie goal

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

Belonging & Well-Being

How to say no to a friend without losing her

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

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Talking about money with your daughter: a script that works at seven and at seventeen

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

Belonging & Well-Being

She wants to quit. Here is how to tell whether to let her.

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Leadership & Life Skills

Why “bossy” is the wrong word for a girl who leads

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Maren, 14, put a food shelf in her school hallway

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

Girl Voices

What I wish adults knew about being eleven

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

Leadership & Life Skills

Sofia sold 1,842 boxes. Her plan started with a spreadsheet.

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Girl Voices

Maren, 14, put a food shelf in her school hallway

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

Leadership & Life Skills

Sofia sold 1,842 boxes. Her plan started with a spreadsheet.

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Girl Voices

What I wish adults knew about being eleven

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

Leadership & Life Skills

Sofia sold 1,842 boxes. Her plan started with a spreadsheet.

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Girl Voices

What I wish adults knew about being eleven

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

Leadership & Life Skills

Sofia sold 1,842 boxes. Her plan started with a spreadsheet.

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

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Episode 12: What girls say when adults stop talking

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Growing Up Today

Three STEM experiments with what is already in your kitchen

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The troop that camped through a January storm and asked to go back

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I was terrified of selling door to door. Here is what changed.

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The Power Within Her

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Talking about money with your daughter: a script that works at seven and at seventeen

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Parents & Caregivers  ·  Grades 4–8  ·  Girl Story

Belonging & Well-Being

She wants to quit. Here is how to tell whether to let her.

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Leadership & Life Skills

Why “bossy” is the wrong word for a girl who leads

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Talking about money with your daughter: a script that works at seven and at seventeen

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Belonging & Well-Being

She wants to quit. Here is how to tell whether to let her.

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Leadership & Life Skills

Why “bossy” is the wrong word for a girl who leads

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