Buddy bench a big hit at Saskatoon’s Willowgrove School
When you don’t have anyone to play with, you go to the buddy bench at Willowgrove School.
The rules surrounding the green bench, located next to the school’s playground, are pretty simple. Within a few minutes, any student sitting on the bench will be approached by a fellow student and asked to play.
“If you can’t find your best friends, and you don’t know where to go play, you sit on the buddy bench, and somebody will come and find you,” said seven-year-old student Matthew Henkelman.
Are you like me watching this right now?
Crying at work, eating sesame sticks because you can’t wait for lunch, thinking how sweet this is and praying that the kids take it seriously?
Thinking about how weird, wonderful, and sad growing up can be and how wonderful something like this is?
Thinking why there isn’t a ‘buddy bench’ for adults? Then realizing how fast it would get corrupted?
Trying to get your collective shit together because you have a meeting in 5 minutes?