| Exploring Common Ground With Children |
Here's an exercise to help you understand your children, and vice versa.
Print this page out. YOU the parent answer the questions in one set of boxes. Cover up your answers. Your child answers the other set of boxes. Compare answers. Which questions show similar thinking? Where do you disagree? Discuss why. Remember your priorities. Which issues are most important to you? To her? Some powerful conversation may follow. Share your beliefs and opinions in a civil manner.
Should teenagers be allowed to...
| Always | Some times |
Never | Always | Some times |
Never | |
| GO to R movies? | ||||||
| Boss younger kids around? | ||||||
| Gamble at cards? | ||||||
| Shave their heads? | ||||||
| Smoke cigarettes with friends? | ||||||
| Hang out with wild kids? | ||||||
| Visit adult chat rooms? | ||||||
| Kiss? | ||||||
| Spray paint graffiti under the bridge? | ||||||
| Try sex? | ||||||
| Swear when you are angry? | ||||||
| Drink beer? | ||||||
| Play violent video games? | ||||||
| Become a strict vegetarian? | ||||||
| Refuse a teacher's instructions? | ||||||
| Tattoo your arm? | ||||||
| Call in sick to school then go to the mall? | ||||||
| Copy a school paper off the internet? | ||||||
| Get your tongue pierced? | ||||||
| Ride in a car with a driver who had been drinking? |
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