Think About It…

Answer these questions:I really like…..

I’m confused about…..I’ll know I’m successful when I…..When I need to make a decision, I

think about…..I wish some one would help me

decide…..

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Life SkillsUnit 1 Self Discovery

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As Teenagers, Many Changes As Teenagers, Many Changes OccurOccur

Physical ChangesPhysical Changes Emotional ChangesEmotional Changes Intellectual ChangesIntellectual Changes Moral ChangesMoral Changes Social ChangingSocial Changing

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Physical ChangesPhysical Changes

As a teen, adulthood is on the As a teen, adulthood is on the wayway

Teens develop physically at Teens develop physically at different ratesdifferent ratesWho physically develops Who physically develops

faster? Males? Females?faster? Males? Females? Hormones (chemicals Hormones (chemicals

released in the body) are the released in the body) are the catalyst of physical changescatalyst of physical changes

Awkward timeAwkward time

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Emotional ChangesEmotional Changes

Hormones also trigger Hormones also trigger emotional changesemotional changes

Must learn to adapt to Must learn to adapt to mood changesmood changes

Emotional ups and Emotional ups and downs will diminish as downs will diminish as adulthood is reached adulthood is reached because hormones because hormones become more balancedbecome more balanced

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Intellectual Changes

• New intellectual skills allow teens to develop realistic plans

• Reasoning skills improve• Attitudes (thoughts and judgments

about the world around you) develop• The wise teen realizes that knowing

more doesn’t mean knowing it all!

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Moral ChangesMoral Changes Teens know the Teens know the

difference between right difference between right and wrong---acting on it and wrong---acting on it is where they have is where they have trouble!trouble!

Develop a set of Develop a set of principles to believe in principles to believe in as adulthood nearsas adulthood nears

Teens learn pressures Teens learn pressures that surface and must that surface and must learn to make their own learn to make their own choiceschoices

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Emerging as an Adult Development during adolescence is complex The person who emerges at the end of this stage

of life is very different from the one who entered it All areas of your development are working

together to produce the adult version of you Everything you do now to promote your

development will help you become the capable adult that you need to be!

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Personality DevelopmentPersonality Development

People come in all People come in all shapes and sizes and shapes and sizes and with different with different personalitiespersonalities

Your personality is a Your personality is a combination of combination of characteristics that characteristics that makes you different makes you different from every other personfrom every other person

Personality ComponentsPersonality Components Personality components fall into three Personality components fall into three

categories—emotional, social, and categories—emotional, social, and intellectualintellectual Emotional---Every person feels the same Emotional---Every person feels the same

basic emotions—the difference is how we basic emotions—the difference is how we deal with themdeal with them

Social---People are different in how they Social---People are different in how they relate to othersrelate to others

Intellectual---Influenced by the mind and Intellectual---Influenced by the mind and how it workshow it works

You must get to know a person to see You must get to know a person to see how all of these components work how all of these components work togethertogether

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Self-ConceptSelf-Concept How you define How you define

what you are is what you are is your self-conceptyour self-concept

When you know When you know who you are—you who you are—you know how to actknow how to act

Teens must learn to Teens must learn to deal with hearing deal with hearing negative messagesnegative messages

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Self-EsteemSelf-Esteem

• Your self-esteem is how you feel Your self-esteem is how you feel about yourselfabout yourself

• Your successes, your thoughts about Your successes, your thoughts about strengths and weaknesses, and the strengths and weaknesses, and the way people react to you affect you way people react to you affect you self-esteemself-esteem

• Self-esteem affects your behaviorSelf-esteem affects your behavior

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ScenarioScenario Charlie’s father wants him to play football. Charlie’s father wants him to play football.

Charlie, however, would rather log onto the Charlie, however, would rather log onto the Internet than practice a forward pass. Every Internet than practice a forward pass. Every time his father catches him at the computer, time his father catches him at the computer, Charlie feels uncomfortable and has a sense Charlie feels uncomfortable and has a sense of failure.of failure.

What could Charlie do you raise his self-What could Charlie do you raise his self-esteem?esteem?

Who is more responsible for Charlie’s Who is more responsible for Charlie’s feelings?feelings?

How could communicating help?How could communicating help?

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Boosting Self-EsteemBoosting Self-Esteem

Learn to accept praiseLearn to accept praise Focus on your strengthsFocus on your strengths Accept yourself as you Accept yourself as you

areare Learn from what you doLearn from what you do Use your strengths to Use your strengths to

help othershelp others Takes responsibility for Takes responsibility for

your own lifeyour own life

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Realizing Your Potential• The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is

constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become! (Ashley Montagu)

• You have potential---the capability of becoming something more than you are right now

• Easy to get side tracked—some think…I’ll start later, I have plenty of time for that, etc.

• How close you come to reaching your potential is up to you. Things don’t have to get in the way if you don’t let them

• When you work toward your potential, you aim for personal development

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Assignment 1. Write the five areas of change as headings on

a sheet of paper. Under each heading, list two specific changes in that category. Describe a benefit and challenge that might result from each change.

2. Using the construction paper given to you, cover the folder with things that portray your personality. Depict your skills, your interests, your emotions, and your attitudes. Include what and how you think and how you get along with others. You may use any media you wish---photographs, drawings, text, or a combination of all of these things.