My Life, My Choices: Key Issues for Young Adults"Ready-to-use workbook" Based on an actual values-and-personal-development course proven and refined over nearly twenty years, My Life, My Choices is a workbook that invites teenagers to evaluate themselves and to share their ideas and feelings with their peers. This text honestly addresses issues critical to today's youth: friendship, loneliness, suicide, peer pressure, drugs and alcohol, sexuality, stress, happiness, success, my secret self, and more. -- has an easy-to-use straightforward format -- is written from the student's perspective -- includes exercise worksheets and journal space -- uses actual teenage answers as discussion spring-boards -- has a broad ecumenical appeal |
Contents
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PLUS AND MINUS IDs | 7 |
MY SILENT SELF | 11 |
MY ONE PHYSICAL ASPECT I WOULD CHANGE | 15 |
MENTAL ATTITUDE TOWARD SELF | 19 |
OVERCOMING HANDICAPS | 23 |
TAKING CONTROL OF MY LIFE | 27 |
KNOW THE LAW AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR USING ALCOHOL | 107 |
GETTING BUSTED FOR DRUGS | 108 |
HUMAN SEXUALITY | 109 |
CONSIDER THE CONSEQUENCES | 113 |
THE FACTS ABOUT STDs AND HIV | 119 |
HUMAN SEXUALITY AND THE PROSPECT OF POVERTY | 124 |
PLAN AHEAD FOR YOUR LIFE | 127 |
A WHY TO LIVE | 129 |
A PERSONAL CREST | 31 |
WHAT OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT SAY | 33 |
ARE YOU IN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE? | 37 |
STUDENT STRESS | 43 |
STUDENT STRESS AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT | 44 |
HOW MUCH STRESS HAVE YOU EXPERIENCED? | 47 |
A STUDENT EVALUATION | 48 |
STRESS FROM WORRY FEAR AND REJECTION | 51 |
GENERATION GAP | 57 |
WHO STARTS THE ARGUMENTS AT HOME? WHY? | 60 |
TRY TO UNDERSTAND YOUR PARENTS | 65 |
THERE IS NO ONE TO LISTEN | 71 |
LONELINESS A PART OF BEING HUMAN | 77 |
FRIENDSHIP | 81 |
SELECTED QUOTATIONS ON FRIENDSHIP | 85 |
PEER PRESSURE | 91 |
THE HARMFUL INFLUENCE OF PEER PRESSURE | 95 |
THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF DRUGS AND ALCOHOL | 101 |
HOW CAN SUICIDE BE PREVENTED? | 135 |
A WHY TO LIVE | 141 |
A WORD CAN MEAN SO MUCH | 145 |
I LOVE YOU | 149 |
IM SORRY | 153 |
GIVING AND RECEIVING | 159 |
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A COMPLIMENT? | 163 |
WHAT DO OTHER PEOPLE DO WITH COMPLIMENTS? | 167 |
HAPPINESS FOR ME | 171 |
HAPPINESS FOR ME | 175 |
THE JOYS OF LIVING | 181 |
SAY YES TO LIFE | 189 |
SUCCESS IN MY LIFE | 195 |
THE PERSON I WILL MARRY | 201 |
THE FINAL SHARING | 207 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 213 |
Common terms and phrases
accept adult alcohol asked attitude brother causes of stress child choice CHOOSE A QUOTE Cite an example decision drink drugs EXERCISE/JOURNAL SHEET experience fear feel felt Feminization of Poverty final sharing friends friendship gift girl goals grades Guttmacher Institute handicap happy hard heart high school HUMAN SEXUALITY identity important kids listen lives loneliness lonely look marriage married meaning mother never Objective Og Mandino one's ourselves parents peer pressure person positive pregnancy pride problems PROJECT SHEET Quote from Reading Reading pp._ DATE recognize rejection Relate relationship remember responsible Rosemary Brown sexually transmitted disease SHORT ESSAY sister smile someone you know Sometimes sorry speak spoke STUDENT DISCUSSION/ESSAY success suicide talk teen teenage teenage pregnancy tell things thought told topics or CHOOSE words worry WRITE A SHORT young woman wrote