Life Skills Education Toolkit

LIFE SKILLS EDUCATION TOOLKIT FOR ORPHANS AND VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN INDIA• 13

6. Make groups of three children and ask them to discuss:
   
   
   • What was your favorite purchase item? Why?
   
   
   • Do you regret buying anything? Why?
   
   
   • Would you have done something differently, if given another chance? Why?
   
   
   
   

Review

In a circle, discuss:

• What were the most popular purchase items? Why? Was anything not bought?


• Did you take time to choose what you want? Why or why not?


• Did we choose what we did because we thought it would buy ‘happiness?’


• What did you value more? What did you value less?


• Can our values change?


• Can you really buy values?

Adaptation

Discuss with the children the fact that everyone has their own special likings and things they value

above everything else. This could be a special book or a toy or some other object. Other things that

are not so tangible are often very real and equally important. These are intangible things like

friendship, telling the truth, working hard or going on a vacation. Tell the children that they are going

to a far-away new country to meet other children and that they can bring only five things they value,

or regard as very special, with them. The children should draw if they cannot write the names of

these five things. The facilitator can help the children in writing or drawing. Each child then talks

about what s/he thinks is important. The facilitator must help the children, through gentle

questioning, to understand that the selection of the objects will reflect on what they value and

consider important. Discuss how different people can value different things and how these values

can change over time.

Tips for the facilitator

• This activity is for all age groups. With older children, more details and discussion can take place.


• Read a story or prepare a large book with the story of a freedom fighter or a social reformer.
  Ask the children what these people value.


• Also choose a newspaper article or story on a criminal figure and ask the children what that
  person’s values are?


• Link the values to their behavior.