Family Life Education

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Family Life Education

• Learning About
• Refusal Skills

Lesson 4
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Purpose

• Sometimes your friends may pressure you to do
  things you dont want to do or, things you know
  that are wrong.
• Today, you will learn skills that will help you
  resist pressure and keep your friends.
• During the lesson, think about topics that will
  be covered during this unit puberty anatomy
  STDs and harassment, and how you can use these
  skills in your own life.

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Introduce Refusal Skills

• What is the hardest word to say to a friend?
• Why is it hard to say NO?
• Want to keep a friend
• The refusal skills in this lesson will help you
• Say NO!
• Stick to your limits and follow family rules
• Keep your friends

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Video You Can Refuse

• After viewing the five vignettes, we will
  practice using the refusal skills as a class.

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Refusal Skills Worksheet

• Ask questions
• Who, what , where, why
• Name the trouble
• Thats stealing, lying, against the law
• State the consequences
• If I do thatgrounded, suspended, arrested
• Suggest an alternative
• Move it, sell it and leave the door open
• Walk away!

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Practice Refusal Skills

• With a partner, choose a scenario from the Role
  Play Options worksheet.
• Practice using all of the steps without pressure.
• Each of you should take a turn as the skill user.
• I will be asking for volunteers to demonstrate
  their role play.

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Practice Under Pressure

• Please practice your scenario again with
  pressure.
• Each of you are to take a turn as skill user.
• I will be asking for volunteers to demonstrate
  their role play

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Summary

• Please remember
• The skills will only work if you dont want to
  participate in the behavior/ activity
• It is easier to say NO! to someone you dont like
• The role-plays allow you to practice the skills
  before you are faced with a real challenge