This document discusses healthy relationships and the skills needed to build and maintain them. It emphasizes communication, cooperation, compromise, mutual respect, caring, honesty, and commitment. Unhealthy behaviors that can damage relationships include stereotyping, prejudice, bullying, and hazing. The document also discusses the roles people play in relationships and how those roles may change over time. It provides examples of deposits and withdrawals people can make in their "relationship bank accounts" to strengthen bonds with others.

1. Foundations of Healthy Relationships Cooperation and Compromise

2. Bell Ringer (5 min) Describe your relationship (s) with your siblings and/or closest friends. How do you get along? How do you work through disagreements? Keep journals out!

4. Friendship: a significant relationship between two people that is based on trust, caring, and consideration.

6. Do we all play different roles in the relationships we have throughout our lives?

8. Daughter

9. Wife

10. Mother

11. Friend

12. Student

13. Teacher

14. Aunt

15. Church member

16. Community member

17. CousinRoles Mrs. Day has Played Before: Employee Girlfriend Fiancé Team captain Team member Class president Class member Volunteer Someone’s date Tutor Care-giver/ Pet-owner

18. Skills for building relationships Communication: the exchange of thoughts, feelings, and beliefs between two or more people. Cooperation: working together for the good of all. Compromise: a problem-solving method in which each participant gives up something to reach a solution that satisfies everyone.

19. Two “C”s of Healthy Relationships Cooperation and Compromise Cheaper by the Dozen: Movie Clip (12 min)

21. The quality of our relationships depends on how many deposits and withdrawals we make in each account.

22. When there are significant “funds” in our bank accounts, an occasional withdrawal will not damage the relationship.

24. Being unsympathetic

25. Not keeping a promise

26. Forgetting a friend’s birthday

28. Tell the truth

29. Sense the need and do it

30. Open up

32. Take out a piece of paper 1. Make a list of the most important people in your lives. 2. Write down ways to show these people that you care about them. 3. Write a list of things that you do that might make these people feel like you don’t care about them. Make a conscious effort to increase the ways you show these individuals in your life that you care!

33. Ingredients for a Healthy Relationship Self Respect Respect for Others

34. Respect for Others Listen to other people Be considerate of other’s feelings Develop mutual trust Be realistic in your expectations

36. Treat others with respect and they respect you in return

37. Accept each other’s opinions, tastes, and traditions

38. Accept each other’s differences

39. Don’t force your opinions on each other

40. Caring

41. Treat others with kindness and consideration

42. Show empathy and support

43. Willing to help others

44. Honesty

45. Honest and open with others

46. Don’t conceal your thoughts, feelings, or actions

47. Commitment

48. Contribute to the relationship

49. Work to keep the relationship strong

50. Make sacrifices for the friendship

52. Prejudice: an unfair opinion or judgment of a particular group of people.

53. Bullying: deliberately harming or threatening other people who cannot easily defend themselves.

54. Hazing: making others perform certain tasks in order to join the group.