Troop Zero and the modern Girl Scout

Phoebe North
18 min readFeb 27, 2020

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — Girl Scout cookie season, and as a first year leader, I’ve been thrilled to watch my kindergarten and first grade Daisies annihilate their goals.

At first, I kept things modest: participate and sell one box, I said, and I’ll get you a fun patch to put on the back of your vest. I was the kid who never earned any of those rad Council incentives, even the easy…

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Phoebe North

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