Decision Making Center

What influences us and pressures our decision making?
Your needs and limits
Teachers and Parents and other adults
Peers 
The media
Substance Abuse

This easy three step process should help you to make good decisions:
1. Stop - Stop what you are doing and focus your attention on the situation.
2. Think - Think about what you are going to do before you act. Think about possible consequences of your decision. How will it affect you and others?
3. Go - After you have thought about which choice would be the best,  "Go With It."

Schools Help Students by providing information on:
Career Counseling
Internships
Community Services
Conflict Resolution - A good book to read is We Can Get Along -Claudia Rohling
Ways to keep students goal oriented - check out this site: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Ballantyne/decisionProcess.html
Books on:
Anger Management
Everything I Do You Blame on Me - Allyson Aborn- This book gives you solutions for anger managment.

Decision Making
Why Should I It's Not My Birthday - Allyson Aborn - This is a choose your own solution book

Peer Pressure
Who Hates Harold? by Jules Older
Review: This book is about a boy named Harold who everyone ignores accidentally one day. He runs into a bully. The bully stands up on the desk and asks the class, "Who hates Harold?" Everyone put their hands up because it was the bully asking.  Everyone except Daniel the new boy. He went to the front of the class and said, "I like Harold!" The rest of the kids in the class put there hands down and said, "I like Harold too!" 
Moral of story - To make your own decisions and not let others put peer pressure on you.

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