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How Role Playing Moral Dilemmas
Turns Family Meetings into Family Fun
by Jean Tracy, MSS
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Kids love to role-play. When kids role-play moral dilemmas, they prepare to meet
life's challenges. If you'd like to help your kids develop strong moral
backbones, consider discussing dilemmas like the one below in your family
meetings. |
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Discuss Moral Dilemmas in Family Meetings:
Family meetings are family discussions. They don't have to be too structured.
They can be part of your dinner conversation. Our family discusses moral
dilemmas around the breakfast table on Sunday mornings with our granddaughters.
The kids love to be included in the conversation. They love sharing their
opinions too. Discussing moral dilemmas makes them feel important.
Three advantages for discussing and role-playing dilemmas:
Moral dilemmas unite your family members in discussions.
Moral dilemmas boost your parenting skills.
Moral dilemmas inspire moral backbones in your kids.
Consider discussing this moral dilemma in your next family meeting:
Pretend you have a friend named Lori. Her mom said she could invite three girls
to her birthday party. Lori invited you two weeks ago for her party this
Saturday. On the morning of the party, you decide not to go. You're feeling
tired and want to watch cartoons all day. Besides you don't like one of the
other kids who'll be at the party. You ask your mom to call and tell Lori you're
sick.
Parenting tips - consider asking these questions in your family discussion:
If you were the mom, what would you do? Why?
What do you think about canceling the morning of the party?
How would you feel if you were Lori?
Is disliking one of the kids a good reason not to go? Why?
Have you ever invited someone who didn't come? If so, how did you feel?
What would be a good thing for you to do?
Parenting tips - points you might like to make during the family meeting:
Being responsible is important.
Telling lies has consequences.
Keeping our word is important.
Caring about other peoples' feelings is important too.
Being too self-centered is not wise.
Parenting tips - ways to role-play this dilemma:
Call Lori and cancel.
Discuss with mom about going or not going to the party.
Come up with more solutions to act out.
Family meetings offer wonderful ways to discuss and role-play moral dilemmas.
Raising thinkers with strong moral backbones is easy and fun. Moral dilemma
discussions boost your parenting skills while your children grow in character.
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DISCUSSION KIT and delight in discussing 51 dilemmas for
building character in your children? |
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