Video of Scott Stanley, Ph.D., presenting a talk on Sliding Versus Deciding. How New "Romantic" Paradigms Undermine Success at the University of Denver. 53 minutes, 45 seconds
Five daily steps to help couples, families, parents, and friends care for important relationships. PAIRS Foundation's Daily Temperature Reading (DTR) has helped couples, families, and friends around the world create and sustain loving relationships. Learn to regularly share appreciations, stay up-to-date, avoid misunderstandings, resolve conflicts, and nurture wishes, hopes and dreams
An important factor in relationship success is "knowing" about your partner's world. This fun set of questions helps partners to know each other better. Take turns reading the questions and guessing your partner's answer. Your partner should tell you if you are correct, and if not, tell you the right answer. The spirit of this exercise is laughter, and gentle fun. Don't keep score.
This program, designed for middle or junior high school teens, provides fun, engaging ways to address the topic of friends and first romantic attractions. Through the use of activities, stories and visual media, this unit gets young teens thinking about the building blocks for healthy relationships and the importance of establishing boundaries as they prepare to enter the dating scene.
Connections: Dating and Emotions is structured around topics that teens of both sexes identify as important to learn about, backed by the latest research on adolescent issues and behavior. Encompassing 15 one-hour lessons, the course guides teens in learning how they relate to others in a dating situation, how to identify socially acceptable and positive dating behaviors, and how to recognize problem personalities or negative behavior patterns that damage relationships.
Health classes are an important forum for teaching relationship skills to teens - but the concepts can be difficult to communicate. The innovative Healthy Choices, Healthy Relationships program simplifies the task with effective instructional materials that easily integrate into existing content. Fully aligned with national standards for health education, Healthy Choices introduces students to the foundations of forming strong, satisfying relationships. In 10 lessons, they examine how peers, family, and media influence expectations about love and life.
