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There's a difference between parents' bringing the order forms to work and parents' soliciting at work for their child. Whenever my parents took GS order forms to work for me, it was always with the tone of "Thought you might be interested, but there's no obligation and please don't feel bad if you don't want anything." My dad worked with a bunch of bachelors, and GS cookies were always very popular.
My parents explained to me early on that organizations that do this (PTA, band, football, etc.) are being manipulative by using children to guilt people into contributing. They use the incentives to make the kids want to do more selling. It's all about the money. I never wanted to sell stuff and was content to have my parents' friends buy GS cookies off me. That and I didn't even make full Girl Scout; I washed out of Brownies after four months because I thought it was stupid. All my troupe ever did was color cards for nursing homes.
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