Empowerment

What colour should the pool table be?

On my placement i have been entrusted the task of finding someone who will re-cover our pool table in one of our clubs.

at the moment its an aquamarine colour but i thought we should have a change....so i took the big step and asked the young people.

three of the youngest most trouble making boys on my placement were playing pool and so i asked them what colour they thought it should be.....GREEN....that solves that one then.....

The next week they were playing again and complaining at the state of the table. i reminded them about the new covering i was looking at and they talked to me a bit about it, then one of them asked if they could have a pool competition next week.......

once again me being the ever 'reflecting' youth worker (whatever! i'm just lazy!)

i asked them if they could run it........

now they wernt to sure about that but said that they'd see next week.......

so we shall see.........

two things could happen........

1. they could come and run the competition

or

2. they could come back next week and totaly forget about it.

should i remind them? should i let them run it? even though theyre normally trouble?

i think yes to all those questions.........do you think that's empowering?