Responsibility check

• What do parents mean when they say you should “take responsibility?”

• Do you consider yourself to be a responsible person? In what ways?

• What does “taking responsibility” mean?

• How does behaving responsibly affect our relationships with our friends? How important is that?

• How does behaving responsibly affect your relationship with your parents? How important is that?

• Have you ever caused problems for somebody else by being irresponsible? What happened? Would you do things differently if you had another chance?

• Has anybody ever caused problems for you by being irresponsible? What happened? What do you wish that person understood about what happened?

• How does it make you feel when somebody lets you down?

• How does it make you feel when you have let somebody else down?

• Do you think there is any connection between being responsible and being trusted?