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Optimism
Contributed
by: Parkhurstfam@cs.com
A fun thing that I did as an object lesson for the
optimism lesson was to ask for about 4-5 volunteers. Have them
come to the front of the room. First put one piece of hard candy in each
of the volunteers mouths. Put one people in one of the volunteers shoes.
Have them walk around the room for several minutes. Tell them they can
not remove the pebble from there shoe (or you can put a pebble in both
shoes) Have them sit down and ask each one what they thought about the
experience. My experience with them sharing their experience was
negative - not one girl mentioned the candy only the pebble in their
shoe. I likened this to life. Sometimes we dwell on the things that are
bad and forget what is good in our lives. This was a good way to start
the lesson. It seemed to make an impression on them. You'll need rounded
pebbles (not too large - about the size of the tip top of your pinky)
and some hard candy - life savers or lemon drops unwrapped.
Activities & Thoughts
Lesson M2L41
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