My Experience Of Working At The Boys And Girls Club

For my service hours for Public Health class, I served at the Boys and Girls Club where I worked with children from the age of five to twelve. Upon arriving at the Boys and Girls club last week, I came across a few thoughts of how it would be to work with children. The first thought in my head was that working with children isn’t going to be challenging and might be the easiest service I have done. I expected the work to be very stress-free and less overwhelming than any other services. Another expectation I had was that volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club would be like any other experience, like the one of many times when I have tutored kids. In this paper, I will focus on how my initial thoughts were changed as I worked with the kids at the Boys and Girls Club and how this experience …show more content…
Working with children at the Boys and Girls Club was a whole new different experience for me. I faced many small challenges while volunteering at the Boys and Girls Club. Just in matters of 2 hours, one of most challenging things I noticed about working with children was that the kids at the boys and girls club were full of energy. The kids were constantly asking questions and jumping around everywhere. On the first day during the kid’s lunchtime, I was shocked to see the atmosphere; kids were constantly pulling each other, fighting, and getting up from their seats. In my opinion, it was little challenging because the kids were very messy and it was a little difficult to cope with them. Since the kids had an environment of constant movement and fighting it became harder to deal with them. Another challenge I faced was with the kids in the homework room. The kids were divided separately in different rooms,