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A Lesson Plan from Life Planning Education: A Youth Development Program
Family Messages
Purpose: To
identify values learned from families and to explore one's
own values
Materials: Copies
of the handout, How Does Your Family
Feel About…, for each participant; pens/pencils
Time: 40
to 50 minutes
Planning Notes: Read
the Leader's Resource, Exploring
Individual Values, before for tips on facilitating values
exercises.
Procedure:
- Remind participants
that values are our concepts of what is right, worthwhile, or desirable.
We feel strongly about the qualities, principles, beliefs, and
ideas we value.
- Stress that a
person's values are important and meaningful. Different people
have different values. It is important that each person makes decisions
and lives life according to his/her own values.
- Say that the family
is one of the most important and powerful sources of people's values.
Children learn what their family values. When they grow up, they
are likely to pass on some of those same values to their own children.
- Distribute the
handouts. Ask participants to take five to 10 minutes to write
down their family's values on each topic.
- Divide into small
groups and divide the topics into sets of two for each group. Ask
each group to discuss the two assigned topics. Each participant
will share what she/he believes are her/his family's values on
each topic in the small group. Give the groups 10 minutes to talk.
- When time is up,
ask each group to report on their assigned topics.
- After each report,
allow other participants to comment about the topics.
- Conclude the activity
by using the Discussion Points below.
Optional
Homework:
Ask participants
to interview a parent or another adult family member about the values
she/he learned as a child from her/his family.
Discussion
Points:
- Were you aware
of your family's values on all these topics? Are there values in
your family that, though no one speaks openly about them, are clear
anyway? Which ones? How do you get the message about these values?
- What are some
of the nonverbal ways your family members communicate their values
to you?
- Do the men in
your family give you different messages than the women? On what
topics?
- Is there a common
message among the families in this group?
- If you have children,
what is one family message that you want to pass to them? Why?
- Is there a family
message you will not communicate to a son or daughter? Why?
Adapted from Life
Planning Education, a comprehensive sex education curriculum. Washington,
DC: Advocates for Youth, in press.
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