Attitudes and Beliefs: An Exercise To Facilitate Conversation With Your Child

This activity will help parents share their attitudes and beliefs with their sons or daughters.

Directions: With pen in hand, fill out the worksheet. Ask your son or daughter at the same time to fill out the worksheet. When you're both finished, exchange and discuss the answers with each other. What similarities do you notice? What differences?

ABOUT LOVE …My mother would say _________________________________________________________________
My father would say  __________________________________________________________________
I believe ___________________________________________________________________________

ABOUT MARRIAGE …My mother would say _________________________________________________________________
My father would say  __________________________________________________________________
I believe ___________________________________________________________________________

ABOUT SEX …My mother would say _________________________________________________________________
My father would say  __________________________________________________________________
I believe ___________________________________________________________________________

ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL AND CONDOMS …My mother would say _________________________________________________________________
My father would say  __________________________________________________________________
I believe ___________________________________________________________________________

ABOUT PREGNANCY …My mother would say _________________________________________________________________
My father would say  __________________________________________________________________
I believe ___________________________________________________________________________

ABOUT HIV/AIDS …My mother would say _________________________________________________________________
My father would say  __________________________________________________________________
I believe ___________________________________________________________________________

ABOUT SEX EDUCATION …My mother would say _________________________________________________________________
My father would say  __________________________________________________________________
I believe ___________________________________________________________________________