03/10/2018
The Bigger Tool Box Programme
The First for Kids Foundation tries to foster emotional maturity through conversation, play and community.
The big goal is to help give boys a bigger emotional tool box to better handle the challenges of school and life now and into the future.
The pain that they're holding on to that they don't really have a space to let go, the anger, the sadness — all those things.
The First for Kids Foundation for children can and will help them tap into that in ways that they can let it go and not walk around angry all the time.
I told one young man the other day in my community that 'You walk around with a tool box full of hammers. You hammer everything. All you needed was a little screwdriver'
And the First for Kids Foundation is that screwdriver for the first time invited the kids stand and then sit in a semi-circle at the end of the school day in Joe slovo Freedom High.
The First for Kids Foundation's Bigger Tool Box programme chips away at the hypermasculinity of the "man up, be tough" code that we believe can block our little boys empathy and re**rd their humanity.
We're ... saying, to children in Molteno and Sterkstroom that You hate high school? Come with us.' We want to help high school become fun for you.
I Siphosethu Mpobole firmly believe that the academic challenges can be overcomed once boys bolster their sense of self and gain confidence.
The schoolwork is easy, once you realize, you just got to get connected to who you really are as.
You know the Big element in helping boys connect to who they are includes playing together, hanging out, laughing and, above all, talking. My little Molteno roots regularly come in handy when I present this programme.
Because this is where I grew up. So I tell kids, 'You know the game you're playing? Man, I know this game. I'm born and raised here.' I use that phrase at least once a week.
We're All Brothers
On a Friday afternoon at the end of a long week, and a long school term, the last thing many of the kids seem to want to do is sit still in the sun and talk.
There are some fits and starts and high school fat jokes
Yet remarkably the students soon settle down, sitting and listening to each other intently.
The First for Kids Foundation tries to foster emotional maturity through conversation, play and community.
The big goal is to help give boys a bigger emotional tool box to better handle the challenges of school and life now and into the future.
The pain that they're holding on to that they don't really have a space to let go, the anger, the sadness — all those things.
The First for Kids Foundation for children can and will help them tap into that in ways that they can let it go and not walk around angry all the time.
I told one young man the other day in my community that 'You walk around with a tool box full of hammers. You hammer everything. All you needed was a little screwdriver'
And the First for Kids Foundation is that screwdriver for the first time invited the kids stand and then sit in a semi-circle at the end of the school day.
The First for Kids Foundation's Bigger Tool Box programme chips away at the hypermasculinity of the "man up, be tough" code that we believe can block our little boys empathy and re**rd their humanity.
We're ... saying, to children in Molteno and Sterkstroom that You hate high school? Come with us.' We want to help high school become fun for you.
I Siphosethu Mpobole firmly believe that the academic challenges can be overcomed once boys bolster their sense of self and gain confidence.
The schoolwork is easy, once you realize, you just got to get connected to who you really are as.
You know the Big element in helping boys connect to who they are includes playing together, hanging out, laughing and, above all, talking. My little Molteno roots regularly come in handy when I present this programme.
Because this is where I grew up. So I tell kids, 'You know the game you're playing? Man, I know this game. I'm born and raised here.' I use that phrase at least once a week.
