Ten Things Teen Should Know About Marriage
Clear and concise, these research based pamphlets help teens see what they can do today to help their marriage tomorrow. The Dibble Institute and the National Marriage Project.

One pamphlet FREE with every order. Extra pamphlets available in packs of 50 for $22.95.

If you would like to receive 1 free pamphlet, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to:
The Dibble Institute for Marriage Education
P.O. Box 7881
Berkeley, CA 94707

Grades: 7-12
SKU: TTT-50
Price:$22.95

Sex Smart
501 Reasons to Hold Off on Sex

Written by a medical science journalist and parent of two teenagers, this book provides straightforward answers to questions teens have about sex and relationships, emphasizing abstinence as the best option for young people. "The indispensable guide to successful teenage love...this book tells it like it is, in plain talk that teens understand. I'm buying it for every teenager I know." — Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, author and taskforce member of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

Book (224 pp.), Fairview Press, 1999.  Susan Browning Pogany.

An insightful, age-appropriate guide to boys, the number one topic of conversation for girls ages 10 and over. Here's straight talk on what to do when everyone's wondering "who likes who?" The book explores being friends, going out, getting dumped, being yourself, and much more. Letters from girls
and advice from boys, along with quizzes and tips, help a girl get her brain back on track when her heart is in a wreck. 112 pages.

Who’s in the Mirror? Finding the Real Me
As children mature into adolescence, the impact of their peers, the media, and the surrounding culture can sometimes overwhelm the influence of parents, teachers, and other caring adults, and even their own better judgment. This book helps young people look critically at the world around them--television, movies, the music industry, and even their friends and acquaintances. Included are discussions of getting along with parents and teachers, dating, falling in love, body image, and eating disorders. Readers are given an easy, effective method of problem-solving, useful in dealing with negative peer pressure. The emphasis is on how kids have more power over their lives than they may think and how they can bring about changes to make things better. Great for teens to read on their own. 137 pp., paper, Boys Town Press, Ron Herron and Val J. Peter .

What’s Right For Me? Making Good Choices in Relationships
Teens can be threatened or tempted by many negative influences or people. This book addresses many of them: jealousy, prejudice, teen sex, anger and aggression, teasing, sexual harassment, harmful or violent relationships. It discusses bullies, sexual con artists, and people who do not respect others' personal boundaries. Teens are taught how to identify and prepare for such situations and people, given strategies for handling them, and encouraged to seek the help of parents, teachers, or other adults when in difficulty, doubt, or crisis. This book enhances a youth's ability to empathize with others and to take responsibility for his or her own behavior and future success. Great for teens to read on their own. 160 pp., paper, Boys Town Press, Ron Herron and Val J. Peter .

How Rude! Handbook of School Manners for Teens
Exploring Relationships Among Peers and Teachers
What counts as rude behavior in school? What can you do when a teacher is rude? What’s the best way to handle bullies and bigots? Here’s sound advice (touched with humor) for teens who want to make school more bearable . Great for teens to read on their own. 128 pp., paper, illustrated, Free Spirit, Alex J. Packer, Ph.D.

Grades: 6-12
SKU: HRSM
Price:$11.95

How Rude! Handbook of Family Manners for Teens
Exploring Relationships in the Family
When family life is full of strife, what can a poor teen do? This book covers the basics of creating the civilized home—a place where people talk instead of yell, pick up after themselves, respect each other, and fight fair. And it’s not all about the traditional family. Tips also cover the blended, shaken, stirred, and mixed (or mixed-up?) family, with special advice for teens whose parents are divorced. Great for teens to read on their own. 128 pp., paper, illustrated, Free Spirit, Alex J. Packer, Ph.D.

Sex & the Silent Parent
Sex. It’s on TV, the Internet, in magazines, movies and music videos. But it’s still one of those topics that are hard for parents and their children to talk about. Learn how to talk with your kids about sex – in a way that they’ll listen. This DVD provides specific advice about where, when, what and how to talk with your kids about sex.  You’ll learn how important it is to discuss the dangers and risks, as well as explain what it means to develop trusting relationships. Kids really do want to talk… and listen… and learn from an adult they trust.

An easy-to-use Resource Guide with facts sheets, tips for parents, lesson plans, worksheets and discussion guide for teens and parents is included. Teachers may use the materials with parents of their students or with the teens themselves. Love U2^® author, Marline Pearson is one of the experts interviewed on this video.

Video Program:  DVD with teacher’s guide, (22 minutes). CWK Network/Connect With Kids, 2006.

First Comes Love
Will you be ready when your son has his first girlfriend? When your daughter has her first boyfriend? Will you be able to help them with the peer pressure to have sex? Will you be ready to address the warning signs of dating violence?

These are difficult topics for parents and kids to talk about together... First Comes Love helps you start the conversation. The program features real kids sharing their true dating stories – and suddenly the pressure is off of your children as you talk about the kids in the program. That, says experts, opens the door for communication and learning.

An easy-to-use Resource Guide with facts sheets, tips for parents, lesson plans worksheets and discussion guide for teens and parents is included. Teachers may use the materials with parents of their students or with the teens themselves.

Video Program: DVD with teacher’s guide, (22 minutes/30 seconds). CWK Network/Connect With Kids, 2003.

Teens often miss the warning signs of abusive dating relationship. This award-winning DVD uses dramatic vignettes and a “Love Referee” to help kids recognize sexual pressure, manipulative and obsessive behavior, physical abuse, lying, and problem lifestyles. When the “rules” of healthy dating are broken, the ref stops the action and explains what’s wrong.

* 1st place, National Council on Family Relations
DVD (21 min.), Meridian Education, 2003.

Grades: 7-12
SKU: RF
Price:$134.95

The Rules Have Changed
This film could change your life … and could save the life of someone you love. Each and every day more than 8,000 teens contract a new STD and 85% of them don’t even know they have a life-threatening disease. As a teen, parent or friend, you need to know how to deal with this rampant epidemic. In this dramatically impactful film, three practicing medical professionals, who confront these diseases on a daily basis, pull no punches as they give truthful real-world answers to tough questions from teens.

Video Program: Video (20 min.). MASE, 2004.

Grades: 9-12
SKU: RHC-V
Price:$29.95 VHS

SKU: RHC-D
Price:$29.95 DVD

Marriage - Just a Piece of Paper?
This 55-minute videocassette explores marriage within its four realms: social, civil, religious and familial. It questions numerous people, including single mothers and pregnant couples, on their views of marriage while also touching on important issues such as cohabitation, divorce, fatherhood and the significance of marriage on children. Includes a brief history of marriage in order to show how marriage came to be what it is today. Religion, Culture, Family Project, University of Chicago, 2001.

Brain Friendly Guidance Activities To Build Emotional Intelligence
Chock full of easy, enjoyable, and effective lessons, this book teaches self-awareness, communication, and decision-making/problem-solving skills that work.  The activities are guaranteed to quickly capture and hold the attention of audiences through joyful, active learning.  The author shares her favorite lessons from years of award-winning work in K-12 schools as well as experience teaching college students and other adult audiences.

Activities:  Book (122 pp., soft cover), Jalmar Press, 2003. Connie Messina.

Teen Success Handbook
This straightforward, delightfully illustrated, fully reproducible handbook gets teenagers to stop and focus for a few minutes at a time on their own development. Enjoyable activities ask them to look at who they are, what they want to be (and be like), their dreams, aspirations and interests.  It encourages them to take stock of their own “developmental assets”, observe other people to find out what works and doesn’t work in life, and learn important intrapersonal and interpersonal skills.  Activity sheets cover 12 vital issues.

Activities:  Book (96pp. 8.5x 11, soft cover), Innerchoice Publishing, 2001. Dianne Schilling David Cowan, Susanna Palomares.

Teen Smart
More than 150 illustrated, reproducible worksheets to
help secondary students learn how to resolve conflicts and
build effective working relationships with their peers and
adults. The book includes teacher directions for each
worksheet. Activities focus on issues that interest teens -
rejection, bullying, appearances, feelings, families, and friends.

Activities:  Book (illus.,304 pp.), Jossey-Bass, 1999.
Saundrah Clark Grevious.

Teen Relationship Skill-Building Card Game
This skill building card game contains 72 cards with open-ended questions corresponding to activities in the Teen Relationship Workbook. A sample card might read, Describe a time when someone tried to control you by manipulating your emotions, or, In a relationship based on equality, how might two people handle arguments? The cards can be used alone or with the book. Cards. Wellness Reproductions, 2001. Kerry Moles.

Building Blocks to Better Relationships
by Mary Holbrook and Shirley Van Horne
Students develop techniques for good personal and family relationships through dynamic case study activities. They learn to be flexible, set and respect boundaries and resolve conflicts. Skills for decision-making, problem solving, critical thinking and communication are practiced. Deals with dating, handling conflict, marriage, teen parenthood, divorce, roommates, sisters & brothers and more. 214 pp., paper, reproducible worksheets and handouts. grades 10-12. J. Weston Walch

Learning Basic Social Skills
A Guide for Relationships in Work Settings
This newly revised workbook reinforces basic social skills while showing students how to put their best foot forward, Topics include communication skills such as getting along with others, developing conversation skills, and having a good work attitude. Workbook includes a teacher’s guide with objectives, vocabulary, additional activities, and answer guides. 104 pp., paper, J. Weston Walch, 1999, Nancy Lobb.

Grades: 6-12
SKU: BPSC
Price:$23.95

Family Life and How It Works
A Guide for Relationships in the Family
This workbook teaches students how to deal with the challenges faced by many families today. Includes 38 activities that cover topics such as family structure and functions, marriage, parenting, handling family money and more. 74 pp., paper. J. Weston Walch, 1992, Susan Puffer.

Research indicates that IQ contributes only about 20% to the factors that determine success. The other 80% of the factors are related to EQ - emotional intelligence. EQ impacts every area of life - health, learning, behavior and relationships. Teaching young people to understand, manage and productively express their emotional intelligence pays big dividends in all areas of their lives and yours. Each book contains a comprehensive overview of emotional intelligence theory - what it is, why it has become such a hot topic in education and its scientific basis in brain research plus concrete suggestions for "schooling" the emotions. Each unit includes a thematic overview, stimulating age-appropriate activities and lively discussion topics. Paperback, Interchoice Publishing144 pages, 8-1/2 " x 11".

Research indicates that IQ contributes only about 20% to the factors that determine success. The other 80% of the factors are related to EQ - emotional intelligence. EQ impacts every area of life - health, learning, behavior and relationships. Teaching young people to understand, manage and productively express their emotional intelligence pays big dividends in all areas of their lives and yours. Each book contains a comprehensive overview of emotional intelligence theory - what it is, why it has become such a hot topic in education and its scientific basis in brain research plus concrete suggestions for "schooling" the emotions. Each unit includes a thematic overview, stimulating age-appropriate activities and lively discussion topics. Paperback, Interchoice Publishing144 pages, 8-1/2 " x 11".

Relationships and Communication Activities offers over 90 ready-to-use activities, games, and worksheets covering the elements of communication, assertiveness, and aggressiveness, how to make friends, family relationships, sibling rivalry, split-level communications, dating, popularity, divorce, and more. Paperback, 124 pages, September 1993 Center for Applied Research in Education. 8-1/4" x 11".

The Pocket UNGAME
Teen Version
In the world’s most popular self expression game players answer questions such as, “What are the four most important things in your life?” and “What do you think life will be like in 100 years?”. These non-competitive games can be great ice–breakers or a serious exchange of thoughts, feelings and ideas. Game Cards. 4.75” x 3.5”. Talicor, Inc.

The Bully Free Classroom
Over 100 tips and strategies for teachers!
Improve the relationship skills in the classroom with more than 100 prevention and intervention strategies that teachers can start using immediately in the classroom, with victims, and bullies themselves. All are easy to understand and simple to implement. This solution-filled book can make any classroom a place where students are free to learn- and teachers are free to teach. Includes 45 reproducible handouts. 176pp., paper, Free Spirit, Allan L. Beane, Ph.D.

Being Yourself
Experiencing Success in Relationships
This lively program helps young people build self-awareness, empathy, and social skills when working in a group.  Ten one-hour lessons identify behavior strengths and weaknesses, what factors motivate personal choices, and the importance of understanding and respecting individual differences. The Instructor’s Guide includes activity materials, Reproducible Masters, and a CD-rom with two overhead transparency master PowerPoint files to support your presentation.  Ready-to-teach curriculum.

Dennis E. Macha and Charlene R. Kamper.
Instructors Kit $90.00
Set of 5 workbooks $40.00

Grades: 5-8
Instructor's Kit
SKU: BY-I
Price:$108.95

5 student workbooks
SKU: BY-S5
Price:$47.95

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Connections | Love U2^® | Love Notes | Myths & Facts Posters | Art of Loving Well | Essential Disciplines |10 Things Brochure | Why Buy the Cow | Relationality™ | Teens | Instructors and Teachers | Check Out | Printable Version

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