Lesson 5 Playing the Blame Game
Goal: To help children understand their tendency to blame other for conflict.
Proverbs 28:13
"He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy."
Objectives - children will learn:
1. What it means to play the blame game.
2. That playing the blame game can cause double trouble.
3. That playing the blame game gives them excuse to feel like victim.
4. That there is help to resist the blame game and change choices.
Goal: To help children understand their tendency to blame other for conflict.
Proverbs 28:13
"He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy."
Objectives - children will learn:
1. What it means to play the blame game.
2. That playing the blame game can cause double trouble.
3. That playing the blame game gives them excuse to feel like victim.
4. That there is help to resist the blame game and change choices.
The blame game makes conflict worse!
1. Playing the blame game is a choice that has consequences. There are five ways that people play the blame game:
2. Double trouble
4. Resisting the blame game
1. Playing the blame game is a choice that has consequences. There are five ways that people play the blame game:
- Blame someone else for your choice.
- Cove up what you
did wrong in hopes that no one will find out. - Make
excuses for doing something wrong or not doing something
right. - Pretend that something you did is not your
fault. - Lie about what you did.
2. Double trouble
- Making a bad choice then
- Playing the blame game
- Playing the blame game can give you an excuse to feel like a
victim. - Victims believe that their problems are always someone
else's fault - Playing the blame game makes you feel as if you are
at the mercy of other people.
4. Resisting the blame game
- God wants you to know that there is freedom in using self-control and in making
wise choices that please him. - God wants you to be a victor over
your sinful responses toward others by taking control of your own choices no
matter what others do.