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Every girl has the right to participate in a Girl Scout Program In a physically and emotionally safe environment. To have leadership that is sensitive to each girl and her needs. To feel attended to and cared for by peers and leaders. To be encouraged and included in troop activities. To be given opportunities to show her leadership abilities. To have all personal information kept confidential.

Write Your Own Love Story

Does your heart skip a beat when you hear his voice, see his face in the cafeteria, or his eyes catch yours?  If this sounds like your life with all the twists and turns of a social super highway, join us for a day of fun and discovery, and learn a little more about yourself and your own love story. 

Monday, October 13 (Columbus Day), for Cadette Girl Scouts, 9AM-2PM, $10.

The Affection Connection will work to develop an understanding of the positive expectations, behaviors and feelings involved in healthy romantic behaviors.  Girls will compare how they treat one another versus how they behave with a boyfriend or "crush."  Activities will explore possessiveness, intimidation, feeling powerful or powerless, jealousy, changing oneself to please someone else, insults and ways to negotiate lovingly, judging compatability and comaraderie, acheiving trust, compassion and honesty.

The Affection Connection was created by

Margaret Sagarese, parenting expert and co-author of Boy Crazy!  Keeping Your Daughter's Feet on the Ground When Her Head is in the Clouds. The program is suitable for girls in grades 4 through 12 and begins the conversation of healthy "romantic" relationships.  The four program themes look at:

FEELINGS and the intense emotions that come with friendships and crushes in the tween and teen years.

EXPECTATIONS AND ROLES in a healthy romantic relationship. Am I the kind of girl boys will fall in love with?

BEHAVIORS which belong and don't belong in friendships and romantic relationships.

YOU! In Love and Your Decisions.  When you're loveable, crushable and eager to find the love that you want.

Beginning Fall 2008, the Affection Connection program will be shared with other Girl Scout Councils across the country. 

The Affection Connection is funded in part by the Long Island Fund for Women and Girls and the Greentree Foundation.