This has nothing to do with any posts or articles, but I think it’s such a great idea (my family, poor as hell when I was growing up, moved a lot and I wish we had something like this in the schools I went to – I changed schools several times in one year on more than one occasion) I’m hoping you might use your connections to make it known.
My wife is from France (moved here a couple of years ago). She says the elementary schools there have something called the “friendship bench” on every playground. It’s a bench that kids can sit on if they are looking for someone to play with (and all the kids know what that particular bench is for). Only kids looking for someone to play with can sit on it. Other kids then, naturally, will come over to invite them to play.
What a great idea to help lonely kids, new students or the socially shy kids a chance to make friends!!
My kids are, of course, grown, but I just can’t get this idea out of my head. It’s such a cool way to help kids break the ice…..
Great idea!
Most schools in Wicomico County have a kindness bench and some schools in Somerset. They serve the same purpose as the friendship bench.
ok, and you are more than welcome to foot the bill for these benches, that you so desire.
Cute that you made sure to put in the “poor as hell” sob story so no one looks to you for a dime.
Or, you know, they were making a point about being a constant outsider looking in and how the benches were a way for someone from a different socioeconomic class to make friends when they are unsure how to since they may not have spent much time with their classmates outside of school.
But go ahead and be a jackwagon about a good idea…whatever helps you sleep at night, cupcake.
My family grew up poor…and we believe in the importance of friendship benches. We all went together and donated money for one at our school in remembrance of my mother. We have been blessed with wonderful live, partly due to enduring friendships and are grateful for the ability to help in this small, yet important way.
3:13… you dumbass.
I said “I grew up poor”…..not a “sob story” about BEING POOR NOW. And I didn’t say “I desire them”. YOU are beyond a dumbass — you are a total smacked ass.
And paying for them? I think I could. I might have been dirt poor THEN, but not any more. Thank you, Grinch
And thank you, God and Jesus Christ.
And it’s different from a “kindness bench”, where kids might sit if they need some sympathy.
This is a place for kids to say “I’m new here” or “I could use a friend”.
Like I said, I moved a lot as a kid and I still remember going to a new school in the middle of the school year, not knowing a soul and feeling totally out of place.
It IS a great idea. That’s all I was saying.