1. Encouraging healthy relationships

2. What is a relationships?
A relationship is an emotional or social connection between two or more people.
You have relationships with your family, friends and your neighbors
Many of these relationships are different, but similar skills are used to keep all relationships healthy

3. Building Relationships
Keeping you healthy
Teamwork
People in healthy relationships look out for each other and help each other make good choices
Listen carefully, cooperate and let people know what you need
Keeping your relationships healthy takes work, skills, and responsibility
Everybody in the relationship has to take personal responsibility.
Personal responsibility is doing your part, keeping promises, and accepting the consequences of your actions

4. Communicating Clearly Using Body Language
Healthy relationships are impossible if people do not understand each other
Its an important skill in healthy relationship is the ability to communicate clearly
Using good communication skills help share thoughts and feelings
Face your listeners . Ask questions to make sure you are being understand
Make eye contact. Be a good listeners
Communication is more than expressing ideas and feelings with word
Body language is a way of communicating by using the look on your face, the way you hold your hands, and the way you stand

5. Choosing Behavior
You communicate by using words and body language but you also communicate through behavior
Behavior is the way you choose to act or respond
Acting on your thoughts and feelings in a way that respects the thoughts and feelings of others is being assertive
Assertive is to take responsibility for what happened and help yourself succeed

6. Family relationships There are two different forms of family
Blended family is two families combine or with extended family ( Both parents , mom or dad)
Extended family- grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins( get together for the reunion)
No matter what your family looks like everyone plays important roles

7. Roles for Everybody Respect Nurturing Being a family is a lot of work
To respect people is to be considerate of them and let them know they are important
When you show respect to your family members, you send the message that you are about their thoughts and feelings
Here’s are some ways to show respect for your family
Follow the family rules
Keep your word
Discuss disagreement respectfully
Treat family members property and rooms as you would like your to be treated
Being a family is a lot of work
Your role depends on what your family needs
Different families have different roles to fill
Your parents probably told you what they expect of you
For your family to function smoothly everyone must do his or her partt
Nurturing is providing the things that people need in order to live and grow
People in families nurture by providing
Love and acceptance
The things needed for survival such
As food, clothing and housing
Protection from the danger and rules to keep everyone safe
Instruction in skills and values

8. Healthy Communities
Community is made up of people who have a common background or location or who share similar interest, beliefs or goals
Ex. Neighborhoods, School and teams
Practicing Tolerance
Members of a community share common interests but in every community, people have differences
Tolerance is the ability to respect differences in people and to accept people for who they are.
People with different backgrounds and talents help the community solve problems in different ways
When you have more ways to solve problems, you more likely to find good solutions

9. Living in communities
You are a member of many communities, including your neighborhood and your school
When you are doing your part helps these communities healthy.
You help when you….
Obey rules and laws
Practice tolerance
Take part in community activities
Respectfully point out problems
Work with others to find solutions to community problems

10. Building friendships
Friendship is a relationship between people who enjoy being together, who care about each other, and who have similar interests
Good friends help each other by demonstrating and encouraging good character
Good character helps you maintain healthy friendships

11. Speaking up Supporting Each Other Identifying healthy friendships
They help you make decisions that are good for you
They support your goals and help you best work in school
Friends also respect your beliefs and values
Good friends would never ask you to do anything that would go against your values or the values of your family
Supporting your friends in healthy ways shows your commitment t helping them succeed
You can support your friends by
Helping them reach healthy goals
Cheering for them at a game or performance
Helping them with project or chores
Studying or exercising together
Standing by them when they say no to unhealthy choices
Supporting your friends does not mean agreeing with every choice they make
Sometimes changing someone’s mind takes only one person’s voice or actions
When friends support each other, they influence each other
Influencing friends to make good decisions is called positive peer pressure

12. Unhealthy Relationships
Showing Affection
Unhealthy Relationships
Showing affection lets people that you like them
Your affection shows your friends you think they are valuable
This may help your friends make decisions that are good for them
Giving affection also shows your friends that they are not show alone, even during difficult times
If you are in a relationship with someone who hurts you, threatens you, or encourages you to ignore your values, that relationship is unhealthy
In some unhealthy relationship, one person tries to control the actions of another person or to keep the other person away from other friends
Resolving Unhealthy Relationships
If you are in an healthy relationship, first talk to your parents about resolving it
Sometime talking with other person in the unhealthy relationship can also help