Girlguiding - Rainbows, Brownies & Guides

GlasweJen

We do camp blankets with our interest and challenge badges with only the six badge, pack badge, country and county badge, promise badge and important (to the girls) interest badges on the sash.

Our guides sew their badges down their sleeves if they run out of space on the gillet.

Do any other owls hate the new style sashes with the gills? How do you get them to stay on?

Poppy9

Wonderweb to attach the badges is a fab idea as they were tough to sew onto the sash as the badges are quite thick and if with a sharp needle and thimble it was hard going!

GlasweJen

Wonder web isn't so good if you're planning on re-using the uniform or if your daughter wants to putnher brownie badges on camp blanket when she goes to guides/senior section.

onlyroz

I wasn't allowed to join the brownies as a child due to the religious aspects. Is it still a Christian organisation?

Emmzi

onlyroz wrote: »

I wasn't allowed to join the brownies as a child due to the religious aspects. Is it still a Christian organisation?

As a junior atheist anti royalist I also used to keep quiet during the allegiance to the queen bit. Is it still in support of the monarchy?

dizsiebubba

Emmzi wrote: »

As a junior atheist anti royalist I also used to keep quiet during the allegiance to the queen bit. Is it still in support of the monarchy?

You still promise to 'love my god' and 'serve my queen and my country' but it is more about being patriotic rather than in support of the monarchy... during WW2 Girlguides helped so much with all sorts of jobs so there has always been an aspect of supporting and protecting your home land.

Having said that I personally wouldn't stop somebody joining if they didn't like the royals... im not a big fan of them myself! The wording could just be tweaked to show support for others without promising to serve the queen!

GlasweJen

There used to be a catholic version of the promise that I think missed out the queen? Will need to google that!

mac666_2

Do any other owls hate the new style sashes with the gills? How do you get them to stay on?[/QUOTE]


In my daughters group they always sew a little popper underneath the join so it pops together. Great way to stop them falling apart.

heretolearn_2

As a junior atheist anti royalist I also used to keep quiet ...

this is one of the reasons I never took the pledge and joined up after a few weeks, Even at 7 I didn't want to make phony vows.

(not the main reason I didn't join, our group was just boooooring and a massive disappointment. It was all about teaching us to be good little housewives and as a tomboy I wasn't at all interested. I'm sure things are very different now.).

So if kids can drop the queen bit from the pledge now, can they also drop the god bit? Otherwise it isn't really open to all, is it, and you shouldn't make liars out of little kids just so they can join up. That's teaching them a really odd ethical stance.

dizsiebubba

heretolearn wrote: »

So if kids can drop the queen bit from the pledge now, can they also drop the god bit? Otherwise it isn't really open to all, is it, and you shouldn't make liars out of little kids just so they can join up. That's teaching them a really odd ethical stance.

Of course! A good leader will recognise individual beliefs. I am an atheist myself so there is no religious aspect at my unit, however we do go to church on remembrance sunday as in our community, the leaders of all religions agree to run a joint service so that the community can pay their respects together as afterall it was a community effort to serve & protect!