Continuing the Conversations

We encourage you to ask your daughters what was discussed in GOTR each week. Here's what we're talking about this week, and ways that you can continue the conversation at home. (Please note: There are different subjects for Girls on the Run teams (3rd-5th grade) and Girls on Track teams (6th-8th grades).

Lesson 11: Peer Pressure

The girls are gaining a better understanding of peer pressure in today's lesson. They are exploring and discussing areas where people succumb to peer pressure and learning a specific strategy to resist it. The SBLR strategy, which stands for Stop, Breath, Listen, and Respond, encourages the girls to take a step back  from a situation to fully assess how the feel, rather than making a split-second decision.

Questions & Conversation Starters:

1. What is peer pressure?

2. Let's each name a time when we felt peer pressure and share how we responded to it.

3. Today you learned about the SBLR Strategy. Do you remember what the S,B,L, and  R stand for? ( Stop, Breath, Listen, and Respond). Will you tell me about it?

4. I'm going to share with you something that I feel pressured to do by my peers. I'm then going to use the SBLR strategy and see how I respond.

5. Let's talk about other times we have felt peer pressure. How could this strategy help us in those situations?

Lesson 12: Standing up for Myself

In today's lesson, the girls are learning to assert themselves in a healthy manner. A technique for constructively expressing one's feelings using " I statements" is reviewed and the girls have the opportunity to practice it by role playing with one another.

Questions and Conversation Starters:

1. What does it mean to stand up for ourselves?

2. What are the four key phrases to use when you to stand up for yourself? ( "I feel", "When" , "Because", and " I would like for you to")

3. Let's each think of and share a time when we could have used these statements.(For  example, " I feel frustrated, when you leave your cereal bowl in the table after eating because it shows lack of concern for keeping our home clean. I need for you to put your dishes in the dishwater when you finish eating from now on.")

4. What can happen if we don't let someone know that he or she is doing something that hurts or offends us?