SUGGESTIONS FOR BUILDING ASSETS

Asset # 27- Equality and Social Justice

(Young people believe in fairness and equality and are committed to social justice.) 

To Build Asset # 27 Parents and Extended Family Can . . .

* Show kindness and care to all people. Teach respectful communication to younger generations.

* Form a family charity account, for everyone to contribute to, and decide as a family who to give it to several times each year. Discuss what happens with the money, and why it is important to share what we have with others less fortunate.

* Discuss issues of social justice as they come up: from watching news programs, TV programs, newspaper stories, or just what happens in your child's life. Help your child understand how things would be different if we had greater social justice and equality.

* Each day, notice and comment about something you are grateful for, something easily taken for granted but which other people lack. When you share these things with your kids throughout the normal day, it has more power than when it is part of a "talk."

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 45% of youth surveyed by Search Institute have this asset in their lives.*

*Based on Search Institute surveys of almost 100,000 6th to 12th grade youth throughout the United States

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"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." -Richard Milhous Nixon

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