Parents/ Family
What is the most important characteristic of a good parent?
What strength or talent did you get from your mother?
Who can you talk to about your parents fighting?
What strength or talent did you get from your father?
Excluding arguments, fights, and parents in two different houses, what one thing triggers your greatest sadness?
What television show reminds you of how your family lives?
If you could change one thing about your mother, what would it be?
How do you think holidays will be different with mom and dad being separated?
If you could change one thing about your father, what would it be?
What memory of your family before the separation will always make you smile?
How do you feel your life will be different with your parents' separation?
How has this separation changed your mother?
Who has talked to you about sad news?
How has your relationship with your father changed since the separation?
When you are overwhelmed with sadness, how do you express your emotions to your parents?
Your school starts a newsletter. You want to share about family life in separate homes. What would you share with your fellow students?
What is something your mother does that makes you angry?
What can you do when your parents are having a fight?
What is something your father does that makes you angry?
What can you do to share with your parents things that you are feeling IF they may appear to be caught up in their own lives?
If your parents' fight becomes physical, what should you do?
Who does your mother talk to about her problems?
Who should tell you about any family changes now?
Who does your father talk to about his problems?
When you feel fear, who can you talk to?