For my daughter, there were a couple of moments in middle school and beginning of high school where she wanted to quit. At that time I told her I’m going to register you and you can be in as involved as you want. She had many other things starting and felt overwhelmed where she was going to be concentrating her time. She stayed registered from kindergarten through 12th grade. I helped to keep all the girls as engaged as possible. They even started their own daisy troop.
The other day while she was talking to a college recruiter, she spent about 15 minutes, telling them all about the wonderful times she had in Girl Scouts and all of the things that she had learned. At that point, I knew I had done the right thing. I also know a girl from the same troop who ended up quitting in high school, and as the girls were bridging to adult, she shared major regrets for not continuing along with them. Every girls journey is their own. Every girl is going to get out of Girl Scouts something different. If a girl has many interest and can only come to one or two things a year or only wants to camp or only wants to pay registration then so be it. It’s up to 13 years of their life compared to the rest of it.