1. 8/13/2015 1 Making Good Choices An Important Life Skill First Grade Southfield Public Schools

2. 2 Our Wish For all children to grow to adulthood making good decisions that will benefit themselves and others.

3. 3 Choices & Consequences In every situation, you have a choice.

4. 4 Choices & Consequences You may not always have the power to pick the options, but that you have the power to choose from those options.

5. 5 Choices & Consequences You may choose what you do, but you cannot choose the consequences for making that choice.

6. 6 Choices & Consequences Every choice has consequences. Though some consequences may not be important, like the color of your toothbrush, most choices have a powerful impact on your life.

7. 7 How to Make Good Choices: Think Before You Act Identify your problem. Think of different choices that you can make to solve your problem. Consider each choice and think about the possible consequences.

8. 8 How to Make Good Choices Eliminate choices that are dangerous and break the rules.

9. 9 How to Make Good Choices Choose the option that has the best consequence. If you have any doubts about a choice, ask an adult for help.

10. 10 Think Before You Act Is it a safe choice? Is it a choice that follows the rules? Is it a choice that will be helpful and not hurtful? Is it a choice that will make me and my family proud?

11. 11 It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J.K. Rowling, Author

12. 12 Presentation by Colleen Lutes Adapted from Choice & Leadership: Making Decisions That Will Improve Your Life Character Counts! Josephson Institute of Ethics