Being a teenager is hard and trying to find where they fit in can be challenging and scary.
Talking Points:
- High School can be a rough time for a lot of teenagers. Most of these teenagers seemed to think that they weren’t important or popular in their school.
- Being yourself should be more important than popularity. It’s easy to lose yourself in the pursuit of trying to get everyone to like you, but you’ll attract more people by simply being who you are.
- While people may come from different backgrounds and have different experiences, we can still find things in common with each other.
Discussion:
- Initial reactions to this topic? What jumped out at you?
- What are some of your interests and hobbies?
- What have your teenage years been like? Why?
- How do you define a real friend? How many of those do you have?
- Do you find it easy or hard to be yourself at your school? What are some reasons for that?
- How can you make your school a better place? What can you do to make sure bullying isn’t a thing wherever you are.
- Is there a step you need to take based on today’s topic?
