PERDEV

• Plan


  A detailed proposal for doing or achieving something
• Family


  The basic unit of society
• Generations


  • First Generation (grandparents)
  • Second Generation (parents and siblings)
  • Third Generation (you and your siblings)
• Social Legacy


  Insights and social skills necessary to cultivate healthy and stable relationships with others
• Emotional Legacy


  Enduring sense of security and stability nurtured in an environment of safety and love
• Spiritual Legacy


  Values of loving, affirming, forgiving and strong belief in the Almighty God
• Close parent-child relationship, good parenting skills, shared family activities and values and positive parent relationship can create positive effects on children
• Adolescents undergo major changes from physical and physiological to emotional and social aspects of their lives
• Adolescents may face challenges such as pressures from school, friends, relationships, financial difficulties, emotional upheaval, abuse, alcoholism, delinquency, bad influences, smoking, drugs, and bullying
• Adolescents should be treated with love, compassion and respect, and the family should make them proud even in the hardships of life
• Parents always pass to their children a legacy - good, bad or some of both
• Parents of adolescents may need to openly discuss peer pressure, drugs and alcohol, be good role models, honestly discuss love, sex and relationships, and help them understand body and emotional changes
• Acknowledge and reinforce spiritual realities

  Having a relationship with God is personal, God is loving and forgiving, we should be loving and forgiving as well
• View God


  As a personal, caring being who is to be loved and respected
• Make spiritual activities


  A routine part of life
• Clarify timeless truth


  What is right and wrong
• Incorporate spiritual principles


  Into everyday living
• Things parents of adolescents may need to do

  • Openly discuss peer pressure, drugs and alcohol
  • Be good role models about responsible relationships
  • Honestly discuss love, sex and relationships
  • Make them understand body and emotional changes
  • Spend time with them
  • Support them at home and in school activities
  • Respect them
  • Be honest to them
  • Talk to them
  • Listen to them without judgment
• Factors that make families resilient in the midst of adversity

  • A positive outlook
  • Spiritual values and support groups
  • Open, supportive communication
  • Adaptability
  • Informal social support
• A positive outlook


  Helps a person or the family deal with any difficulty situation creatively, turning adversities into opportunities
• Spiritual values and support groups

  Praying calms the anxious mind, comforts the burdened heart, and gives peace to a restless soul. The amount of support one receives in stressful times is related with the resilience of the family.
• Open, supportive communication


  Facilitates ways to understand the stressor, and collaborative efforts are brought about from each member to cope positively with it
• Adaptability


  Families that are capable of adapting to crises and are willing to embrace them respond more effectively to difficult situations
• Informal social support


  The support that one receives from the family, as well as the support that the family receives from others, allows them to feel that there are people around them and that they are not alone
• Acknowledge and reinforce spiritual realities. Emphasize that having a relationship with God is personal. Let them know that God is loving and forgiving. We ourselves should be loving and forgiving as well.
• . Incorporate spiritual principles into everyday living.


  SPIRITUAL LEGACY
• Provides a safe environment in which deep emotional roots can grow


  EMOTIONAL LEGACY
• Responsibility, fostered by respect for themselves, that is cultivated by assigningchildren duties within the family, making them accountable for their actions, and giving them room to make wrong choices once in a while.


  SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
• Unconditional love and acceptance by their parents, combined with conditional acceptance when the parents discipline for bad behavior or actions.


  SOCIAL LEGACY