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Making Good ChoicesAn Important Life Skill

First Grade

Southfield Public Schools

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Our Wish

For all children to grow to adulthoodmaking good decisions that willbenefit themselves and others.

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Choices & Consequences

• In every situation, you have a choice.

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Choices & Consequences

• You may not always have the power to pick the options, but that you have the power to choose from those options.

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Choices & Consequences

• You may choose what you do, butyou cannot choose the consequencesfor making that choice.

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Choices & Consequences

• Every choice has consequences.• Though some consequences

may not be important, like the color of your toothbrush,most choices have a powerfulimpact on your life.

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How to Make Good Choices:Think Before You Act

• Identify your problem.• Think of different

choices that you can make to solve yourproblem.

• Consider each choice and thinkabout the possible consequences.

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How to Make Good Choices

• Eliminate choices that are dangerous and break the rules.

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How to Make Good Choices

• Choose the option that has the best consequence.

• If you have any doubts about achoice, ask an adult for help.

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Think Before You Act

• Is it a safe choice?• Is it a choice that follows the rules?• Is it a choice that will be helpful and

not hurtful?• Is it a choice that will

make me and my family proud?

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It is our choices . . . that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J.K. Rowling, Author

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Presentation by Colleen Lutes

Adapted from

Choice & Leadership: Making Decisions

That Will Improve Your Life

Character Counts!Josephson Institute of Ethics