Ms. Walker's Classroom Comfort with 'Conflict Resolution'
Read the following problems put yourself in the story as the person needing to solve the problem. Write your answers on paper or discuss them with a partner.
A radio station is giving out free CD's to the first 50 people in line. You have been in line for three hours. The person in front of you lets their friend just walk up and get in line. The person handing out the CD's gets to you and says the person in front of you got the last one.
- What do you do?
- How would you feel?
- What would be the fair thing to do concerning the people involved?
You beg your mother to let you use her new CD player. You go to your best friends' house and accidentally leave the CD player. When you get home you realize your error and immediately call your friend - only to find out that the CD player was loaned to someone.
- What do you do?
- How would you feel?
- What would be the fair thing to do concerning the people involved?
Tommy and Richard are always fighting. They seem to get on each others' nerves. They are also good friends and share a lot of the same interests. They love to ride their bikes and save caps. Their fights start out as teasing. They call each other names, then they start pushing each other when they are outside or in the halls. Now, they have actually hit each other a couple of times. They seem to be on the edge of a big conflict and neither one knows how to prevent it from happening.
- What do they need to do?
- Has this ever happened to you?
- Do you argue with your friends or family members?
- How does this make you feel?
- Is arguing ever good?
Discuss your feelings with the class or your partner.
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