Comments on: (Beehive) Girls Just Wanna Have Fun – 1916

By: Diana Morris

Diana Morris — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:05:25 +0000

This is so fun. Thank you for your wonderful articles.

By: Linda Snow

Linda Snow — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:48:03 +0000

I grew up in the Mormon Church. I was a beehive girl for years and enjoyed it very much. I learned alot. The animal care was important to me, since I was living on a cattle ranch in Wyoming.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:16:11 +0000

I’m glad you found it enjoyable, Monica — this is one of my favorite picture collections at Keepa.

(Do me a favor, and let your sisters have Keepa’s web address, will you? There are a LOT of articles here about women and women’s activities in our past.)

By: Monica Gonzalez

Monica Gonzalez — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:55:00 +0000

Thank you so much for this pics… I’m doing a research from the women in our church back in the day, and these pictures & info were very helpful.. I’m presenting this tomorrow for our Relief society meeting anniversary !! Thanks !!!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:27:11 +0000

Sorry, john f., no. Once in a great while a caption will identify a leader pictured with the girls, but never the girls themselves.

By: john f.

john f. — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:13:27 +0000

Ardis — these are really fun. With my roots in Mt. Pleasant and Ephraim, I wonder whether any ancestors are pictured there. Was there an indication of who was in the pictures?

By: Anne (UK)

Anne (UK) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:44:42 +0000

“But where are all the hikers in real life?”

I think they are the less active members.Ironically, less actives and non members seem far more physically active in real life, probably because they aren’t forever preparing lessons or attending meetings Or maybe the “internet activity craving sisters” are more adventurous? or are online because they can’t find any adventurous friends to do things with, so seek the company of like-minded women in the virtual world instead? Not sure. Interesting point!

As for my daughter, possibly it was the final straw in a ward in which she didn’t feel included. I spent weeks previous convincing her that if she participated and attended all the other activities, her friends would support hers. The experience was a valuable lesson on the importance of The One, anyhow.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:06:14 +0000

Ardis-
I always look forward to your photo posts.

By: Ardis Parshall

Ardis Parshall — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:30:08 +0000

Anne, isn’t it odd that we have so many women on the internet who crave the activities that have been suggested on this thread, and yet run into so few of them in real life? I have yet to hear from any commenter on any blog who says she will ONLY do table decorations and recipe swaps and will NEVER consider a hike or ice skating or car mechanics. But where are all the hikers in real life??

Someone (on BCC? somewhere else?) wrote a post months ago about a son who was, I think, autistic and the only boy his age in the ward, yet he had a fantastic leader who came prepared every week to put on a full program for that one boy, even such things as building a rope bridge in the parking lot, if I recall correctly. It wouldn’t have been nearly that much work for your daughter’s YW leaders to take her ice skating … I’m sorry about that one.

By: Anne (UK)

Anne (UK) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:21:33 +0000

forget Beehives- why can’t we do this stuff in RS, or better still, single adult activities instead of those occasional interminable dances!

I once suggested a car mechanics session for Homemaking, but got shouted down by the ‘table decorations made from vegetables’ brigade…

My daughter stopped attending Mutual night activities after they were all supposed to pick an activity each over several weeks. After suffering various ‘silly’ (in her opinion) activities, her turn for the activity came- she had requested ice skating. None of the other girls wanted to go, so didn’t turn up, and the leaders decided there was ‘no point’ going with one YW. So she never went back.