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| SESSION OUTLINE FOCUS: (5–7 minutes) Optional: Play the song “Scream” by Michael Jackson. Ask students to name pressures in their lives that can build up to the point where they just want to scream! Hand out balloons and ask students to blow them up to the point that they burst. Can they do it? Is it scary to blow it up to the popping point? CONNECT: (5–7 minutes) Say: We all have pressures that build up in our lives. There’s the pressure of the media, trying to tell us everything from what type of shoes we need to be a good athlete to what our body should look like to be attractive to the opposite sex. The media tries to tell us what we have to have and how we have to look in order to be valuable, respected and well-liked. Then there’s the pressure of people around us—they also give us strong signals on how we should look and act. People can influence us either positively toward healthy choices or negatively toward decisions that can hurt us. For some of us, parents add pressures—they want us to be successful in everything. Sometimes all of these pressures can build up to the point where you just want to scream, or run away, or escape into alcohol or drugs or sex. Sometimes the pressures push people into decisions that have long-term, bad consequences. Ask students to help you make a list of the pressures kids their age face, some of the ways that they deal with them, and some of the possible results of the pressures. Continued... |
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