1. Building Strong Families
Unit 1
Parenting

2. BELL RINGER
Is your family united? How can you help unite or strengthen your family?
“In a united family,
happiness springs of itself.”
Chinese Proverb

3. Ways to Build Strong Families
Express Love and Acceptance
How can you express love or acceptance?

4. Ways to Build Strong Families
Spend Time Together
Relationships take time
Do you spend time with your family? What do you do?

5. Ways to Build Strong Families
Show Respect
Self respect and respect for others
How do you show respect?

6. Ways to Build Strong Families
Build Trust
Consistency
Being dependable
Do you automatically trust your family members, or is it something that is earned?

7. Ways to Build Strong Families
Establish Traditions
Experiences shared and looked forward to

8. Ways to build Strong Families
Communicate
People of all ages want to be heard
Talk openly and listen

9. Telephone
How do communication blocks affect the story?

10. Are you Really Listening?
At lunch today……………………
Volunteer to start talking about lunch
Finish about 3 to 5 sentences then call someone to add on to the story… they must recap what was previously said……
What were some distractions or challenges you had?
'To be Continued...': This is an easy activity to improve active listening and requires a common topic to be given to the group on which one of the students begins to speak on. It could be a fun or easy topic at first, followed by more difficult ones. The teacher or supervisor can then suddenly stop the person in mid-sentence and ask the person next to the speaker to continue along the lines of the previous speaker's last few sentences. This continues for some time and once everyone gets a hang of how it works, the supervisor can then pick anyone at random to continue speaking. This greatly improves listening and helps everyone to learn to carefully listen to the speaker.

11. Ways to Build Strong Families
Resolve Conflicts
What are common areas of conflict in families?
How do you resolve them?

12. Solve the Crime!!!!
The Crime Scene: There is a small room. There is a window in the room that is open. There is a table in the room. There is broken glass on the floor. There is also water all over the floor. There are two dead bodies on the floor. What happened?
The wind blew a fish bowl off the table and the two dead bodies are fish.

13. Solve the Crime What was the problem at hand? How did you solve it?
How can this relate to real life conflicts?

14. Ways to Build Strong Families
Ask For Assistance
Everyone needs help sometimes
Lean on me

15. Activity Teamwork Warp Speed. Toss a ball around the circle
See if you can go faster….you must keep the same order

16. Activity
Chain
Cut a 1 “ wide strip across the construction paper width
Write one way to build or strengthen a family
Create a chain, linking with your neighbor