Little Miss Merit Badge: A Memoir

ISBN: 978-1-936214-47-1
252 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5
$16.00 Paperback
Pub Date: Feb. 2012

“Beaman’s book proves you can have the best of everything, even in the worst of circumstances, if you are willing to work at it.”— Barbara Hannah Grufferman, Author, The Best of Everything After 50

“Ronda Beaman can sew the Laughter Badge onto her double sash of accomplishments. Little Miss Merit Badge is funny, poignant and meaningful.”
Jerry Scott, Co-creator, internationally syndicated comic strips

“Can you live your life without feeling you are special? Dr. Beaman answers with a hearty ‘No!’ and then invites us on a journey of resilience, hard work and hope that can reawaken our own exceptional selves.”
Dr. Paul G. Stoltz, Bestselling Author, Adversity Quotient

Ronda Beaman

Former Girl Scout, Dr. Ronda Beaman was the first recipient of the National Education Association’s “Excellence in the Academy: Art of Teaching” award, as well as mother of USA Today’s Most Creative Family, and is a faculty resource for the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) University.

A highly regarded international speaker, she also directs leadership studies at California Polytechnic University and is Chief Creative Officer at PEAK Learning, Inc.


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She was hooked by the age of six. The on-going, outrageous dysfunction, and denial in her life was enough to turn anyone into an addict. Nationally recognized university professor and internationally renowned speaker Ronda Beaman confesses her drug of choice was earning Girl Scout badges. Lots of them. And she never quite kicked the habit.

A humorous, yet harrowing memoir that explores the nature of resilience and the accomplishment addiction many young girls develop to compensate for growing up in a challenging environment.

“LITTLE MISS MERIT BADGE is a warm and wise account of what it takes to build a life of merit and then pay it forward." — Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of PAY IT FORWARD