Our theme for February is Inclusion. Go deeper at home with the discussion questions below!
How To Go About It
The most straightforward way to do this is simply to have parents and/or caregivers read off the questions they think will resonate the most with family members and have everyone take turns answering.
Another fun way to do this is to create a family question jar. To make this easier for you, we’ve listed all the questions below at the end of this packet with dotted lines you can cut along to make “question strips.” You can then pull out the question jar and have family members choose a question/strip a few times each week.
Discussion Questions
- How do you define or explain what it means to be inclusive? What words are similar to inclusion? How many can you name?
- What is your favorite way to welcome new neighbors, classmates, people to your church, or other kids into your troops/groups/clubs/sports, etc.?
- Can you be inclusive without using words? What would that look and feel like?
- Where–other than your actual home–do you feel most “at home”?
- When you see someone on the outskirts of a group, not sure how to join in, what do you usually do? When it’s you on the outskirts of a group, what would you like someone to do?
- Who in the family is the best at meeting new people? What makes them great at it?
- When was the last time you were the “new kid”? Do you remember who the first person was to reach out and help you feel included?
- Without words and using only your body (like charades), show how being welcomed into a group feels.
- What makes our church an inclusive place? How could you help it be even better at it?
- When someone new comes into a group of people you know well already, how are you most likely to react? What’s something you’d like to try the next time this happens?
- How are you most likely to react when you sense that you’re not included?
- Who in your life has made you feel the most included and why?
- What was one thing you did today to include someone else?
Want to keep going? Find more family activities here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sU3gkE0irLoK2hWmVF6oGdtqZmY1gZgq/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108695119908519377783&rtpof=true&sd=true