Kids Helping Kids

FORMING A CLUB FOR KIDS
WHO WEAR PARTICULAR CLOTHES:
There are seven girls who have decided to wear jeans every Monday, skirts every
Wednesday and matching t-shirts every Friday. They made a pact not to tell anyone
else; it will be their secret and they even decide to keep it from one of their friends
who did something they didn’t like.
USING SOMEONE AS A PAWN IN A RELATIONSHIP
TO GET A PERSON TO REJECT ANOTHER:
Marcy had always been friends with Taylor and they did everything together. One
day, Taylor went to the mall to shop with Jade instead of Marcy. Marcy found out
and was really upset. The next day at school, Marcy started to pretend that she
wanted to be friends with another girl, named Olivia. She made plans to do things
with Olivia just to make Taylor mad and jealous. Olivia was now excited to be
friends with Marcy. She knew that Marcy was popular and now she could be, too.
Taylor’s neighbor and good friend, Josh, knew what was happening, but didn’t know
what to do.
USING SOMEONE FOR HIS OR HER HOMEWORK:
Ben was really good at fifth grade math, but he was often excluded from the football
games played by his classmates at recess. Devon was always “in charge” of the football
game and decided who could and could not play. Devon was pretty bad in math and
told Ben that he could play if he could copy Ben’s math homework. Ben wanted so
much to play that he decided to let Devon copy his homework even though he knew
it was wrong. Jessica and Adam came up to Ben and Devon just as Devon started to
copy the paper.
Make up your own scenarios.
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