1. Respecting Yourself and Others (1:36) Click here to launch video Click here to download print activity

2. You can promote healthy relationships by showing respect for yourself and others in your life.

3. personal identity values prejudice stereotype tolerance bullying hazing

4. Respect for Yourself Self-respect will strengthen your relationships. When you respect yourself, you’re more likely to seek out relationships with people who treat you with respect.

5. Respect for Yourself Having self-respect is an important foundation for developing and maintaining healthy relationships. Self-respect makes you less likely to let other people talk you into taking risks that could harm your health.

6. The Need for Strong Values When you are clear about your values and uphold your values, other people will know what you believe in and understand what’s important to you. You also show that you respect yourself and you respect others.

7. Respect for Others It’s important to treat people with respect. You can strengthen your relationships with all the people in your life by treating them with the same respect you’d like them to show you.

8. Respect for Others With strangers and casual acquaintances, you can show respect through common courtesy. You might hold a door open for someone or say “Thank you” to the checker at the grocery store.

9. Respect for Others With close friends and family members, you can show respect in more significant ways. Listen to other people. Be considerate of others’ feelings. Develop mutual trust. Be realistic in your expectations.

10. Respect for Others Lending your MP3 player to your brother is one way to show that you trust him.

11. Tolerance Sometimes people treat others with disrespect because of prejudice. Prejudice An unfair opinion or judgment of a particular group of people

12. Tolerance Assuming that all boys like sports is an example of a gender stereotype. Stereotype An exaggerated or oversimplified belief about people who belong to a certain group

13. Tolerance People who have tolerance value diversity and can appreciate differences in other people’s cultures, interests, and beliefs. Tolerance The ability to accept others’ differences

14. Disrespectful Behaviors Victims of bullying are verbally, emotionally, and sometimes physically abused. Bullying Deliberately harming or threatening other people who cannot easily defend themselves

15. Disrespectful Behaviors Bullies may tease their victims, spread rumors about them, try to keep them out of a group, or even physically attack them. Bullies are more likely to drop out of school and to have problems with alcohol or violence.

16. Disrespectful Behaviors Bullies may intimidate through verbal attacks, malicious rumors, or even physical force.

17. Disrespectful Behaviors Hazing is often meant to humiliate new members of a group. It can be physically or emotionally harmful. Hazing Making others perform certain tasks in order to join the group

18. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary Listen to others, be considerate of others’ feelings, develop mutual trust, and be realistic in your expectations. 1.Identify four ways to show respect in your relationships.

19. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 2.What are stereotypes? Stereotypes are exaggerated or oversimplified beliefs about people who belong to a certain group.

20. After You Read Reviewing Facts and Vocabulary 3.List three reasons some teens bully others. To make themselves feel superior, to feel they are part of a group, to keep from being bullied themselves