Relationships
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•••• Relationships
This site has great resources to learn how to develop healthy relationships and improve your communication skills. You can find tips and practice exercises so that you can express your needs and get people to listen to you, as well as to improve the way you listen to what other people want to say. It also gives you ideas on how to handle conflict and how to identify dangerous situations. This site rocks!
LINK: www.oag.state.tx.us/teens/relationships/index.shtml
•••• Talk about it
Communication exercises to improve your skills, using the I-statements.
LINK: www.oag.state.tx.us/teens/relationships/talk.shtml
•••• Managing Conflict
Conflict management tips that can be useful in many areas of your life.
LINK: www.oag.state.tx.us/teens/relationships/conflict.shtml
•••• Healthy relationships
This website gives you examples and very good suggestions on how to develop healthy relationships with your family (including siblings and parents!), your friends, and your boyfriend/girlfriend. It helps you identify whether your relationships are healthy and whether you want to remain in that relationship… Healthy relationships make you feel good about being yourself and safe.
LINK: www.youngwomenshealth.org/healthy_relat.html
•••• Stayteen.org
What does a healthy relationship look like? Do you want to know how falling in love feels? breaking up? When is a relationship abusive? This site has excellent resources that teach you about dating violence and healthy relationships. Check out their games, videos, and reality podcasts!!
LINK: www.stayteen.org
•••• My Paper Boyfriend - GAME**
Do you have what it takes to build a healthy relationship? What is your ideal boyfriend like? Play this game and see how you respond in some difficult situations… test yourself!
LINK: www.stayteen.org/games/my-paper-boyfriend/default.aspx
•••• What's Your Relationship Reality?
Want to learn more about healthy relationships but don't feel like reading? Check out these Relationship Reality videos!
LINK: www.stayteen.org/youtube-channel-video/Relationship Reality
••• Relationships Quizzes
Quiz your knowledge on healthy relationships!!
LINK: www.girlshealth.gov/relationships/quizzes/index.cfm
••• Am I in a healthy relationship?
This website gives helpful information about healthy and unhealthy dating relationships. Love and relationships can be confusing and it is important that you know how a healthy relationship feels and how to identify warning signs of unhealthy relationships. Check it out!
LINK: kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/relationships/healthy_relationship.html
••• Girls Health
This site is very useful for girls because it has specific information on all kinds of relationships do’s and don’ts, conflict management in friendships, dating, family relationships, and community relationships. Check it out!
LINK: www.girlshealth.gov/relationships/index.cfm
•••• BAM! Guide to Getting Along
Conflict is part of our lives, so we need to learn to handle it. This site gives quick strategies to help you when you feel you’re about to lose it and solve the conflict. Especially useful for frustrated teens!
LINK: www.bam.gov/sub_yourlife/yourlife_conflict.html
•• Peer pressure bag of tricks
Peer pressure can be tough to resist. This site offers examples on how your peers might push you to make a choice, good or bad…
LINK: www.thecoolspot.gov/peer_pressure5.asp




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