-“This is one of my favorite places to be” – Boys Club participant.

Boys Club is a Saturday Group I started July 1st to bring boys with exceptional needs/brains together for the purpose of forging friendship and feeling part of a peer community. We have 5 awesome members. One month has past and I find myself wanting to reflect on what I believe it has meant to them and what I know it has meant to me thus far. In the picture you can see three boys (the other two are hiding under the cushions).

When I sat down to write about Boys Club, this is what came out:

Fun. Loose. Very Silly.”Potty” humor.Laughing. Talking. Taking Breaks (“Where’s my mom?”). Burying. Burrowing. Trusting that saying “No” or “I don’t want to” is accepted and respected. Engaging. Struggling to Share. Sharing. Turn-taking. “I’m bored”. “Why can’t this be longer?”. Voting. Bumping into each other. Cramming bodies into tiny spaces. Building. Dealing with it. Saying hello. Saying goodbye. Just leaving and saying nothing at all. Thanks. No thanks. Fact checking.”That’s not pre-historic”.

What I know for sure is that I love it! It is my professional dream realized.
A big thanks to all my members and their families for allowing this group to get started.

-Anthony