Unit 4: Managing Relationships and Social Conflict

Unit 4: Managing Relationships and Social Conflict

March 15 - May 3

 

Lesson 20: What Makes a Conflict Escalate?

In this lesson, students will examine common reasons social conflicts escalate from minor to major.


You Can Try This at Home

Discuss with your child a time in your life when you were involved in an escalating conflict. What do you wish you had done instead? Ask your child if they are part of a conflict right now that they need help with.


Lesson 21: Keeping Your Cool in a Conflict

In this lesson, students will explore how using emotion-management strategies, such as slow breathing, walking away, reframing the situation, and practicing positive self-talk, can help prevent a conflict from escalating.


You Can Try This at Home

Share with your child strategies you use to help yourself feel calm during escalating conflicts. Ask them to tell you any additional strategies they find helpful beyond the ones covered in the lesson.


Lesson 22: Conflicts and Perspectives

In this lesson, students will learn how to listen to and consider someone else’s perspective during a conflict.


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Discuss with your child a time in your life when your view of a conflict changed because you were able to see it from another person’s perspective. Ask your child if they have changed their view about a conflict lately.


Lesson 23: Resolving Conflict Part 1

In this lesson, students will learn how to describe a conflict in a non-judgmental way by avoiding blaming language.


You Can Try This at Home

Discuss with your child a time in your life when you had a particularly difficult time resolving a conflict. How did avoiding blaming language help?


Lesson 24: Resolving Conflict Part 2

In this lesson, students will learn how to consider possible solutions, determine the negative and positive consequences of each of those solutions, and agree on the best solution for resolving a conflict.


You Can Try This at Home

Ask your child why they think different conflicts need different solutions. Discuss with your child a time in your life when you had to think about the best way to solve a conflict. What did you think about? How did it work out?


Lesson 25: Taking Responsibility for Your Actions

In this lesson, students will learn how to take responsibility for their actions in a conflict and make things right.


You Can Try This at Home

Discuss with your child a time in your life when you had to take responsibility for your role in a conflict. What did you do to make things right and repair the harm?


Lesson 26: Tips for Resolving Conflicts

In this lesson, students will apply the skills and knowledge they’ve learned in this unit to create a tip sheet for resolving conflicts.


You Can Try This at Home

Ask to see your child’s assignment. If they don’t have it, ask them to explain it to you. Think of a realistic conflict from real life, TV, a movie, or a book, and have your child share what tips they think would be helpful in resolving it.


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