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Taylor, a 14-year-old girl from California, is calling for Americans to boycott Girl Scout cookies in light of the Girl Scouts of the USA organization’s decision to admit a transgendered child to a troop in Colorado. In a YouTube video, Taylor alleges that the organization was dishonest when it permitted a child born as a male to participate in an “all-girl experience.” She adds: “Most disturbing to me and my family is they also admitted to have already placed transgender boys throughout America without letting everyone know.” Taylor ends her diatribe by promoting the website www.honestgirlscouts.com, which features a downloadable flyer urging a cookie boycott. The flyer claims that revenues from cookie sales support abortion and LGBT agendas. The Girl Scouts of Colorado stated that a transgendered child was admitted on the basis of gender identification. “If a child is living as a girl, that’s good enough for us. We don’t require any proof of gender,” explained Rachelle Trujillo, vice-president for communications of the Girl Scouts of Colorado.
Attentive kindergarteners equal better workers
Attentiveness in kindergarten “accurately predicts the development of ‘work-oriented’ skills in school children,” reported researchers with the University of Montreal. Researchers studied teachers’ observations of the attention skills of more than 1,000 kindergarten children. Grades 1–6 homeroom teachers were asked to rate how well students undertook independent study and teamwork, their levels of self-control and self-confidence, and their ability to follow directions and rules. Linda Pagani, a professor and researcher at the U of M, said, “For children, the classroom is the workplace, and this is why productive, task-oriented behaviour in that context later translates to the labour market.” She added: “Children who are more likely to work autonomously and harmoniously with fellow classmates, with good self-control and confidence, and who follow directions and rules are more likely to continue such productive behaviours into the adult workplace. In child psychology, we call this the developmental evolution of work-oriented skills, from childhood to adulthood.”
