Helping Kids Make Wise Choices and Reduce Risky Behavior

$21.95

Terri Akin, Gerry Dunne & Dianne Schilling

These ready-to-use lessons recognize that making wise choices is a teachable process and that learning the skills and habits of wise choice making reduce the incidence of risky behavior and leads to more success in school and in life.

Focusing on developing key areas like self-concept, personal strengths, and supportive, healthy relationships these activities cover essential health and safety information while teaching vital decision-making skills. Fun and engaging, yet packed with plenty of important information and skill practice to help kids learn to make good choices, develop healthy friendships, identify positive support groups, recognize and affirm their positive qualities and develop good decision-making and problem-solving abilities. Use these interactive lessons, discussion questions and reproducible worksheets to put kids on a speedy path to wise choice making.

Topic areas include:

• Assertiveness
• Stress Management
• Self-Esteem
• Decision Making and Problem Solving
• Anger Management
• OTC Drugs, Smoking & Marijuana
• Peer and Gang Pressure
• Resistance and Refusal Skills
• Media Influences

Table of Contents

Introduction

Activities

• A Garden of Healthy Habits
• Who Do You Ask for Help?
  -Who Will Help?
• Developing a Helper’s File
  -Helper’s File Phone List
• You Be the Judge!
• Lung Power
  -How Your Breathing Works
• Smoking’s a Drag!
• 16 Smoking Facts
• The Ad Grab
• Recognizing Peer Pressure
• Dozens of Ways to Say No
• A Repertoire of Refusal Skills
• Friendship Target Practice
  -Hitting the Friendship Target
• How to Solve Friendship Problems
  -Solving Friendship Problems
• Friends Support Each Other
• It’s OK to Like Myself
• No Time To Be Modest
• The Art of Affirmations
  -Affirming Myself
• Showing Respect for Myself
  -How I Show Respect for Myself
• Accentuate the Positive
• Things I Do That Lift Me Up
  -Words and Deeds That Lift Me Up
• Habits on Display
• Action Plan for Success
• •Three-Step Plan for Success
• Feel the Difference!
• Practicing Assertiveness Skills
  -Aggressive, Passive or Assertive?
• Stress Is…
• Reducing Stress Through Movement
• The Comedy Show
• What to Do, What to Do?
  -Make an IDEAL Decision!
• Taking Action to Solve Problems
  -Action Plan for Solving Problems
• Coping with Angry Feelings
• Things I Get Angry About
  -Dealing With My Anger
• How to Keep From Popping Your Cork
  -Popping Your Cork Or Letting Off Steam
• Into The Trash!
  -Throw Your Anger Into The Trash!
• Stop! Think! Act!
• Reverse Chair
• What Is a Role Model?
• Support Systems
  -Who Supports Me?
• How Do Things Stack Up?
• Dear Expert…
• Gang Tag!
• Showing What We’ve Learned
• Put It in Reverse!

-Experience Sheets

Primary Subject Area – Character

Grade 5-9, 181 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, paperback