Life skills Term 2 2024 Flashcards
What is adolescence?
The time between childhood and adulthood
What is puberty?
The stage where a young person becomes sexually mature and can produce children.
What are hormones?
A substance produced in the body.
What is body image?
The way you think and feel about your body.
What is self-esteem?
The way you think and feel about yourself as a person.
What are physical features?
Relating to your body. I.e.cbig eyes, long hair.
What are characteristics?
Qualities that a person has. I.e. kindness or a sense of humor.
What is potential?
The ability to develop.
What are skills?
Being able to do something well (especially because you have learnt and practiced it)
What is ability?
To have the knowledge, skills and strength to do something well.
What is interest?
Being curious about something and wanting to find out more.
What is peer pressure?
When friends try to persuade you to do something against your will or encourage you to change so you are more like them.
How can you help when people are fighting? Key words.
Mediator/ conflict/ confidential/ paraphrase/ tolerant
What is a mediator?
A person who helps people/ groups sort out an argument or come to an agreement.
What is conflict?
When people disagree about something and start fighting.
What does confidential mean?
Private and not told to anyone else.
What does paraphrase mean?
Repeat something using your own words.
What does tolerant mean?
Being willing to accept that others have different opinions and ways of doing things.
What is peer pressure?
When does it happen
Friends (or peers) can have a good/ bad influence on you. It happens when people want to be loved and accepted by others. It’s easier to be swayed to do things you wouldn’t normally do in a crowd. Some people think: if everyone else is doing it, why shouldn’t I?
What is negative peer pressure?
Friends ask you to join in a game to be nasty to others for fun. You may end up doing things you regret to impress your friends, although you know it’s wrong.
Give an example of positive peer pressure:
All studying together. Keeping fit together.
List strategies to help deal with negative peer pressure:
- Talk it through (talk to person who is making you feel uncomfortable. Explain your feelings and ask them to stop.
- Make the right friends (find friends who feel the same way as you do about things. It’s easier to avoid peer pressure if there are two/ three of you who say ‘no’
List strategies to deal with negative peer pressure:
- Talk it through
- Make the right friends
- Listen to your feelings (if your feelings tell you it isn’t right, don’t do it!)
- Make an excuse (think of a good excuse you can make if you are invited to do something you don’t want to do)
Why is it important to resist peer pressure?
The action can have long term effects. Eg. if an adolescent is pressured into drinking, he might become addicted and become an alcoholic, this can cause unhappiness in his own life and others long term.
How can you resist peer pressure?
- Better be alone than in bad company (Make the right friends who will influence you positively)
- A man is known by the company he keeps (other people you will think you are the same as them)
- False friends are worse than open enemies (if friends pressure you, they are not allowing you to live by your values. These are false friends and not worth keeping)
- Friends always show their love (a good friend will inspire you to do the right thing)
- Just say no. (Every time you say no you will get the courage to say no again next time.
- Choose your friends wisely.
What is a definition of conflict?
To disagree about something and start fighting
How is conflict caused?
When two or more people interact, there is the possibility of conflict.
In conflict. Are you?
- Forceful and aggressive? (Like to win so you accuse/ blame others)
- Avoider? (Change subject or pretend argument doesn’t exist- go away with nothing resolved)
- Accommodating? (Never reveal true feelings and agree with everyone else and go away angry)
- Compromiser? (Give up what you believe for sake of others and reach middle ground)
- Collaborator? (Acknowledge conflict and work together for a solution everyone is happy with)
What is mediation?
Process of helping people who are involved in an argument or disagreement that they cannot work out themselves. Also resolve a fight.
Mediation is a process. What does this mean?
There are steps involved in helping people settle a disagreement.
If the fight becomes physical and you are a mediator, what must you do?
Do. To get involved in the physical conflict.
What is the goal of mediation?
For people to work out and resolve their issue.