1. Teen Living 1.01Personal Development
Quality of life and character development

2. Physical Development
Heredity = the physical traits that you inherit from your parents (i.e. hair and eye color)
Hormones cause physical changes in a teen’s body
Exercise is a positive way to deal with stress

3. Intellectual/Mental Development
Character development begins in early childhood
An important aspect of character is the ability to choose right from wrong
Self-esteem = a person's overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her own worth.
A high self-esteem can be developed by taking part in activities that a person is good at

4. Social Development Personality is influenced by a person’s environment
Environment = a person’s neighborhood, school, and friends
Peer = one belonging to the same societal group especially based on age, grade, or status

5. Study Skills
Learning and study skills can be improved by organizing classroom notes
Calendar – an efficient management tool to help plan things that you want to accomplish
A date book is useful to record homework assignments
In prioritizing a “to-do” list, items should be ranked in order of importance

6. Study Skills, cont’d…
Over commitment = taking on more than you can accomplish
Solution is to learn to say “no” at times
Procrastinating = putting off getting things done
Dovetailing = combining tasks so that more than one thing is accomplished at a time

7. Character Responsibility = honest, capable, reliable
Empathy = is the capability to share another being's emotions and feelings
Respect - actions that honor somebody or something indicate respect

8. Character, cont’d…
Trustworthiness - A trustworthy person is someone in whom you can place our trust and rest assured that the trust will not be betrayed
Caring = Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others
Good character = Moral or ethical strength

9. Create your own “self-esteem” bag!
Everyone is unique, has good qualities, and is good at many things.
Decorate your bag with pictures that show what you are good at and words that show your good character.