Christmas Day, New York Times, a sign of the times: Beyond Crafts and Cookies, Girl Scouts Are Prospering By LISA W. FODERARO

ARCHMONT, N.Y., Dec. 24
In a chilly cabin here, the ambitious young suburbanites brainstormed a few weeks back on ways to relieve stress. The solutions were the usual: bubble baths by candlelight, yoga, relaxing music, setting limits.

"There's nothing wrong with being busy," said Vickie Hage, an architect in Mamaroneck, helping the fourth graders in Girl Scout Troop 1839 work on their "Stress Less" merit badge. "It's much better to be busy than to not be busy. But you don't want to be so busy that it makes you cry or it makes you nervous or it makes you mean to your mom."

Being a child in these high-stress, full-scheduled times is not what it used to be, and, as the Stress Less badge introduced a year ago indicates, neither are the Girl Scouts.

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