Making Healthy Decisions: Lesson 14

Life is full of choices and making good decisions is a critical skill to learn in life. How do you make a good decision? We were happy to greet the girls with all of our coaches present and ready to help the girls discuss decision-making. Coach Tanya, led the first activity by placing the girls into small groups and getting them to think about and agree on a decision/and or activity they did that morning. The girls then had to think about and agree on a difficult decision that might take place in the future.
Each of these decisions required the girls to draw their response. The future decisions were quite interesting, with topics ranging from: getting married, getting up to go to work early every day and the ups and downs associated with being a rock star!
Coach Jenn, got the warm-up going with a game about Pros and Cons. The girls stayed in their small groups, while Coach Jenn, read scenarios which required some of the girls to run to the Pro station and write 2 Pro statements and the other girls to run to a Con station and write 2 Con statements. This activity not only required the girls to think about the pros and cons of the scenarios, but to do a quick cardio activity. To finish the warm-up the girls had to run back to Coach Jenn and decide on the healthiest decision of the scenario. Ask the girls to fill you in on some of the scenarios and the discussions.
On to the workout, with Coach Connie asking the girls to determine the difference between a long and short-term consequences and long and short-term results. What does this have to do with a workout? Well, it involves a board game,sort of like Life, and who doesn't love a board game. This one involved the girls following the instructions on the board pieces they received as they performed ran laps around the blacktop. Some girls recieved cards which rewarded them with lap counters for positive decisions, while other girls received cards which required them to crabwalk and run another lap, because of a poor decision. A fun way to run, collect lap counters and think about consequences of decisions.
During the cool down the girls talked about some of the decisions in the workout. We sent the girls on their way with a GOTR Cheer. We ended the lesson with Coach Tanya distributing Tuesday healthy snack(yummy apples), wearing her Eat More Veggies, t-shirt.