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| Power of Respect Mini-Course Lesson Nine: Evaluation Written Version |
| Lesson Nine Evaluating the Success At the end of your meeting you scheduled a time and place to meet again to review and evaluate the success of the solution or solutions that you came up with. Tell each other how the plan is working for each of you. You not only scheduled the meeting at a time agreeable to all, you made sure that you scheduled it after you had enough time to actually see if the plan was going to work. If everything is going well for everyone involved, continue on. If anyone is having problems with the plan, maybe you can just tweak it. If it is a bigger problem, go through the seven steps again to find something that seems like it will work better. Grandmother/Grandson Session Continued... “Grandma, this is working great! I just want Brady to come, too. He really want to join us and his parents have said it’s ok.” “That sounds fine to me, as long as you all continue to get your homework done. I’m really happy with that part. I never even have to say anything anymore. I hope your teacher is happy, too.” “I get full points now. I should be getting As in all my classes.” “I wonder if your teacher would like to hear what we did?” “I don’t know, maybe.” “Well, let’s meet again in two weeks, if that’s ok with you, and see if adding Brady is a good idea.” “Ok. I’m sure it’s going to be a good idea, but we can meet.” “I’m going to write to your teacher and maybe set up a meeting if she wants to learn more. I bet a lot of parents and kids could be helped by learning what we did.” “Ok, Grandma. I’m going to go play. See you later.” “Ok, Tony. Have fun. See you later.” Family Session Continued... “Ok, at our dreaming and planning family brunch we decided to meet today and see how this plan is working for all of us. I forgot to bring up the need for a follow-up meeting at our first meeting. So, I’ll go first. Everything is going well for me. Anyone else? Anyone having second thoughts?” “What are second thoughts, Mom?” “She means if you don’t like our idea about having our family vacation here this year.” “Second thoughts means that you thought that an idea was a good idea, but now you are thinking a different thought, a second thought, about it, that maybe it’s not a good idea.” “Oh. I like the idea. I’ve been making new friends since I asked some of the kids at school about going on trips around here. Lots of kids want to be able to go.” “Well, I’m sure we can work that out, somehow. We’ll just have to have a meeting about it.” “Yes! Let’s have lots of meetings about it! I like these meetings.” “We’ll have as many meetings as we need, don’t worry. I think we’re all convinced about these meetings. Anyone else? No. Well, let’s schedule another dreaming and planning meeting. What about two weeks from Saturday? Another family brunch?” “What date is that?” “The 17th.” “Oh, yeah, I’ll be available.” “Sounds good. Max, will you write it on the calendar?” “Sure, Mom.” |
