We belonged to the companion girls’ group, Keepers at Home, for several years, and we mostly used the book as a guide for what types of activities we wanted to incorporate into our monthly meetings. We made it our own group and came up with our own themes for each year’s agenda, but we did award the badges at the end of the year.
What I’m trying to say is, we did things how they suited our particular group. For example, we awarded badges but left it up to the moms to decide whether their daughters had done enough of the activities to merit the badge. And, we did not require sashes to display badges but allowed them to be placed on a vest, a hat, a scarf….whatever the girls/moms wanted to use.
How did our group start? A mom gathered a couple of other moms, showed them the book and website, made group decisions on what to do that year, found a place to meet…..and off we went! To this date, that group is not “listed” anywhere with the Keepers Clubs website; you’re not required to do so.
I think it’s sort of like McDonald’s….you can use the name and the menu, but if you are a franchise, you run it your own way.
