Surviving the Girl's World of Good and Bad Relationship Bee-haviors

Being a teenage girl in today's world can be tough! While girls and boys deal with many of the same issues; some growing-up struggles are unique to the experience of being a girl in our society. This resource can help provide a foundation for girls to navigate together through many of these issues and relate them to their own personal experiences. Using this curriculum, girls gain a stronger sense of selfworth and belonging in their families, with their peers, and in their communities.

Thrive in the Hive provides you with a curriculum of lessons, activities and reproducible pages to be used with individuals, or for an eight-week small group with girls.

The girls will explore different roles that girls assume within the structure of social cliques. It also includes interactive lessons to guide girls on a journey to explore the keys to building healthy friendships. The sessions include an introduction and activity for personal refection. In these sessions girls will learn how to:

• Explore their role in the relationship hierarchy
• Identify strengths and potential difficulties for each role
• Avoid peer pressure to behave a certain way
• Develop strong, healthy relationships with others
• Explore their self-identity in social groups
• Be aware of the power behind words in conversations
• Practice positive self-thought with positive words

Additional activities include:

• How perceptions impact relationships
• Valuing similarities and differences
• Exploring "cliques" and stereotypes
• Jealousy and how it can harm friendships
• Role Play scenarios on relational aggression