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Attitude Presentation

 
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Attitude Presentation
by Ella Mitchell - Tuesday, 16 May 2017, 12:04 PM
 

It was a pleasure on Friday to have Paula Fakalata from Attitude – the youth education division of The Parenting Place – present to our young men.  Attitude is dedicated to equipping teenagers with the information and skills they need to negotiate the adolescent years and build meaningful lives.  The presentations covered a range of 'real' issues facing young men in today's society.  We have included a brief overview below to assist parents in sparking some ongoing conversations at home with their sons.

Year 13 The PITS: Depression, mental health and wellbeing.  What does it mean to have good mental health?  What can we do if we have concerns about our own mental health and wellbeing or that of a friend?  It is important to speak up and seek help – reach out to friends and family.

Year 12 Sex With Attitude: What are the important things in a relationship?  Honesty, personality, friendship and mutual support are far more important for a healthy relationship than ‘looks’ and physical attraction.   What is the impact of pornography?  It promotes an unrealistic emphasis on physical attraction and creates an unrealistic and very shallow picture of what relationships are really about.

 Year 11 Attitude It's all about choices:  The choices you make in the next 24 hours are more important than all you have made in the last 10 years. You can't change your past but you can influence your future.  The parts of your life are like chapters in a book. Sometimes your teenage years are rough but that chapter will eventually end and your life will head in to new chapters that are better.

Year 10 Hardwired:  The talk today was based on drugs and alcohol.  The main messages focused on helping students understand that there are better ways of meeting the needs in life, rather than turning to drugs and alcohol.  Problems such as boredom, issues with friends and happiness were discussed, as was the quote, "A problem shared, is a problem halved."  The second message was aimed towards helping the students to make decisions based on weighing up the positives and negatives of their decisions.

Year 9 Hauora: The physical, social and spiritual components of wellbeing for young people – the impact of bullying (for both the victim and the bully), the importance of selecting good mates, what it means to be a good mate and the importance of good decision making in the teenage years.

All of the presentations were engaging and informative, and we hope that our young men got a lot out of these opportunities.