Why do you want a Big Brother?

1. Ashton, 8, waiting 1 year, said ‘I want a big brother because I want someone to play with.  I don’t’ usually get to play chess. I’d play chess with him’. 
   
2. Thomas, 9 ‘because I’m stuck with girls’. Waiting 2 years.
   
3. Charles, 8, waiting 6 months ‘I want a BB because I don’t go out. I mostly stay home’.
   
4. Jerry, 13, ‘I want a big brother because I don’t have a real big brother. And my sisters harass me so I just want to get out of the house’. 
   
5. Andrew, 10, waiting 3 months, ‘ I asked my grandmother for  a BBrother because my cousin, Josh has a BB and it sounded fun.  I want to go places with someone new. It’s fun, cool and exciting to have a Big brother’. 
   
6. David, 7 years old, waiting 6 months ‘a friend , someone I really like and can play with. He can help us learn and take us places’.   
   
7. Gilbert, 13, waiting 1.5 years said ‘a big brother is supposed to help a kid if he is bored or doesn’t have anything to do, help them get active, play games and to talk to’. 

What is a Big Brother?

8. ‘a big brother looks after the little brother’  Jerome, 10 years old, waiting 1 year.
   
9. Brayden, 10, waiting 1 year says ‘I’m good at soccer and I like playing jokes. That’s what my friends like about me.  I want a big brother because I think it would be fun, and we can go to magicland.  A big brother is an influence on me, and a friend’
    
10. Justin, 11, waiting 2 years ‘someone to play games with you and is nice to you’
    
11. Dylan,10, waiting 1 year ‘ someone to have fun with and take me places’. 
    
12. Sam, 13, waiting 6 years ‘I am surrounded by women. I just want somebody who is encouraging”. 
    
13. ‘ a big brother is one that has feelings like me. like if I get hurt my big brother will tell my friends to stop hurting me and he will stand up for me’.  Elijah, 12, waiting 1 year.
    
14. Anton, 14, waiting for 8 years,  ‘I would like a Big Brother to play sports with, not necessarily “share my feelings” with.’
    
15. Tony, 13, wants ‘“want somebody I can hang out with and talk to and I just hopes he enjoys the outdoors”.    Tony has been waiting almost 6 years.  
    
16. Darko, 8, waiting one year says ‘I want a big brother because my dad’s not here. It would be fun. We can do stuff together’. 
    
17. Xavier, 9, waiting 1.5 years, says ‘I want a big because my dad isn’t in my life. I only see him once a year. He lives far away’. 
    
18. Joseph, 12, said ‘a big is someone to entertain me, keep me occupied and have fun with me’.  Waiting 1 year. 
    
19. Zaid, 14, says ‘I want a big brother to do male things with. I don’t’ want a big sister because I don’t’ like getting my nails painted’.  Waiting 3 years.
    
20. Jesse, 11, waiting 2 years, said “I want a BB because I have to be a big brother to my siseter.  I don’t’ have my own big brother’. 
    
21. Jeremy, 9, ‘A big brother is someone you can count on’.  Waiting 1 year. 
    
22. Ivan, 10, ‘I want a big brother because I am an only child. He can play with me and take me places. We can play video games and go to the museum.  I think a big brother is someone who can help me, play with me and take me places. I want someone who is a nice person, who doesn’t steal. Someone who could help me and teach me stuff’.  Ivan has been waiting 1.5 yrs.
    
23. Aaron, 7 years old, waiting 5 months said ‘I want a big brother because my sister has a big sister.  She gets to go places. I want to go places too!’
    
24. Darren, 7, waiting 3 months said ‘I want a big so I’m not bored on weekends.  He can bring me places. We can have fun’.   
    
25. Randy, 11, waiting 8 months, said ‘I want a big brother because I really like only to play by myself. I don’t have much friends.  He can keep me busy.’.

26. Daniel, 10, waiting 1 year ‘we could do things like play on the computer, go to McDonalds’, and Toys R us to look around’
    
27. Curtis, 10, says ‘ we could play video games, go to a Moose Game, play baseball or go for lunch together’. Waiting 2 years. 
    
28. Jarad 9, waiting 1 year, ‘we would go to the park, go to his house and play games, or go snowboarding.  ‘ 
    
29. Tristan, 12, waiting 2 years wants ‘I wish I had more wishes, I had an unlimited amount of money and an unlimited amount of food’.  14
    
30. Marc, 8, waiting 2 months said ‘we could go to the movies, play games on the computer, go watch hockey, it doesn’t matter how old they are, as long as they are fun’. 

31. Tyrelle, 13, ‘I think it would be cool, because I’m the oldest in my family, and I have no big brother’.  I want a Big who is not mean and who likes to do the things I like to do, like swimming and bike riding’. 

32. Stephane, 8, waiting 1 year, said ‘tell them that’s its going to be fun to hang out with me. I’ll be planning things we can get together. I want to go to lots of places…like Petland, bike riding, go to the movies’. 

33. Matteo, 13, said ‘I wish that I could fly, have one good friend and have peace’.  He has been waiting for a BB for 6 years. 

  34.   ‘I would want a thousand dollars, a singing penguin and a trip to Mexico’

    Little brother Shawn, 8 years old, waiting 1 month. 

35. Kyle, 9, waiting 1 year said ‘I want to have a BB til I’m 18 and hang out with him a lot. I would go shopping places and go to the toy store.  I want to buy clothes.’
    
36. Aman, 9 years old, waiting 1 year said ‘ have a big brother, go to the united states and go on a plane ride’. 
    
37. Sasha, 12, waiting 1 year said ‘I would like my bird to talk every word in the world, I want to be an architect or an engineer, and I would be able to live in a bigger house’.