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A Lesson Plan from Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program
Handout for the Family Messages Lesson Plan
How Does Your Family
Feel About…
Write
down the messages your family has given you on each of
the following
topics. What values do the messages convey?
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Messages
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Earning
good grades in school |
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Cheating |
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Having
friends |
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Being
loyal |
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Using
alcohol and other drugs |
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Lying |
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Making
money |
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Selling
drugs |
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Gaining
respect from others |
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Being
disrespectful |
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Graduating
from high school |
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Getting
a job |
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Going
to college |
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Having
expensive clothes, like running shoes |
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Having
sex as a teenager |
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Using
condoms or other forms of birth control |
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Trusting
yourself |
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Getting
a job to help your family |
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Having
children |
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Getting
in trouble with the law or other authorities, such as the principal |
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Adapted from Life
Planning Education, a comprehensive sex education curriculum. Washington,
DC: Advocates for Youth, in press.
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