Refusal Skills

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Refusal Skills
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Refusal Skills

• Say a direct no.
• Suggest another activity.
• Be a broken record.
• Repeat the message over and over.
• Say why not by stating a fact or your feelings
  and opinion.
• Walk away.

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Situation One

• Your boy/girlfriend just asked you to sneak out
  of the house at midnight to meet him/her alone in
  his/her parents car.

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Situation Two

• Joe asks you to go with him to Sandys house
  after school, and Sandys parents will not be
  home.

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Situation Three

• You are at a party and Danny wants to go up
  stairs and show you one of the bedrooms.

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Situation Four

• Jamie asks you to come outside so that they two
  of you can get to know each other better.

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Review

• Refusal Skills
• Say a direct no.
• Suggest another activity.
• Be a broken record.
• Say why not by stating a fact or your feelings
  and opinion.
• Walk away.

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Homework

• Write about a time when you could use your
  refusal skills.
• Talk to a parent about what we have been doing in
  class, explain what refusal skills are.
• Write down the situation (it should be about a
  paragraph long).
• Have your parent, or the adult that you talk with
  sign the bottom of the sheet so that I know you
  discussed it.
• Bring in the signed sheet for the next class.