“Even when they seem a little disorderly, they always seem to know the key messages,” said Liz Brighton, who rows for the crew team at George Washington University and is also preparing for graduation. “I think they’re picking up a lot and I hope that they’re internalizing the facts and factoring that into making their own health decisions.” “I think the kids retain a lot more than we think,” said Boudreau. “Sex isn’t something you have to do,” she explained after the consequences of the game were conveyed into a real-life lesson. “Sex is a choice,” Boudreau told the girls after the game was over. It was too much to juggle everything orderly. The tennis balls, metaphors for the obligations in the lives of these girls, scattered all over the place once sex was introduced. It was no accident that terms associated with sexual activity caused an even bigger commotion in the gym. To which another girl replied, “That scared me!”Īfter the soccer ball, more tennis balls with words like “pregnancy,” “STI” and “HIV” were added to the mix. “And then we threw the soccer ball in,” said Boudreau. The response was a simple: “Yeah,” was the point.Īfter a short discussion, they played again. “And that was hard to juggle?” Boudreau, a senior public health major and soccer player getting ready to graduate from George Washington University, asked one of the girls.
Using tennis balls with words like “school” and “family” and “friends” and other aspects of the typical sixth-grader’s life, the girls started bouncing the balls in a set pattern to each other.Īnd of course, things got more and more chaotic as more tennis balls started bouncing around the circle. Inside the gym at The Arc last week, Boudreau, Brighton, and Fry gathered a couple dozen sixth-grade girls and got them into a circle to play a game called “Juggling My Life.”
schools to teach about healthy living, hoping the unique approach will resonate with kids. Using games and physical activity, the athletes go to D.C. and puts them inside gyms and classrooms with over 5,000 area students. This nonprofit organization brings more than a thousand college athletes here in D.C. They’re part of a group called The Grassroot Project.
WASHINGTON - For most of this semester, Erin Boudreau, Liz Brighton and Sydney Fry have left college campuses in some of D.C.’s richest neighborhoods to come to the Washington School for Girls in Southeast. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.
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