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Standard 4

The student will understand and demonstrate how to play a positive, active role in promoting the health of his or her family.

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• Understand the changing roles of family responsibilities.
• Recognize the skills needed for good communication between adolescents and parents.
• Understand his or her role in supporting positive health practices of younger family members.
• Identify effective strategies to cope with change in the family.
• Understand the responsibilities of parenting, including legal, financial, social, and moral.
• Identify the difficulties and challenges of being a teenage parent.
• Recognize the diversity of family structures.

• Students will create hypothetical family (group activity) situations with rules and a budget (income and expenses).
• Students will participate in presentations by teen parents by asking questions and writing a reflection paper.
• Students will record and analyze time spent with younger children as a positive role model or in a caretaking role.
• Students will role-play a scenario in which conflicts between parent/ caregiver and adolescents are depicted, including resolution strategies.

• Describe the importance of family communication.
• Analyze the effects of substance abuse, including tobacco use, and its impact on the family.
• Investigate and analyze responsibilities of healthful parenting.

• Students will study roles that individuals assume in a family involved with substance abuse and conduct research to determine where help is available in the community.
• Students will analyze a television program and write a short essay describing the family dynamics in the program.
• Students will recognize the consequences of high-risk behavior on the individual and family.