How Buddy Benches fight loneliness in parks, school playgrounds

It’s a piece of furniture, but it is helping create an environment where everyone is included, kindness is key and all you’ve got to do is take a seat. It’s called the Buddy Bench and a Boca Raton-based catalog company is sending it all over the country to parks and school playgrounds. In South Florida, kids are embracing the mission of the Buddy Bench. It’s the easiest thing to do. If a kid feels lonely, left out, they sit on the bench.