10 • MODULE FIVE: DECISION-MAKING
Session Two: How do We Make Decisions
that are Safe?
Objectives
At the end of the session the children will be able to:- Help children to think through and make
decisions carefully; - Understand that the decisions they make can
have many effects on themselves as well as on
others; and - Know why making a decision to delay sex is
safe and learn strategies to do so.
Key Points
Children in risky situations need to know how to
make safe decisions. Girls also must learn how to
make safe decisions because they have not received
any opportunity to do so.
Children cannot see how their decisions have
long-term effects; that is why rash decisions are
often made.Delaying sex is important if the children have not
yet experimented. They must know why they are
saying “no” even though they have developed skills
to be assertive, to say “no” and to resist peer and
other adult pressures.Life Skills Learned
Critical thinking, creative thinking, problem solving
and decision-making.Materials
Flip chart, cards, markers and cello tape.Time Required
30 – 40 minutes for each activity.