Youth Olympics Sports Logos Freeze Frames!
Can you imitate the people in the logos and be the first to complete all the Youth Olympics Sports images?
Description
Participants will try to copy the poses of athletes in the various Youth Olympic Sports as shown in the Logos for the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.
Resources
The streets here in Singapore have really been busy with one major event about to explode into action. If you haven’t heard about it by now, it’s the first time this little island nation I call home will be hosting an international sporting event – the 2010 Youth Olympic Games. Not only is it the first time we’re hosting something …
“Little strokes fell great oaks.”–Benjamin Franklin
The February 1998 issue of Success magazine contains an excerpt from a story that the magazine printed 100 years ago. The article, “A single-minded Tom Edison,” contains an interview with Thomas A. Edison, the great inventor.
Here is part of the conversation Theodore Dreiser had with Edison:
“Dreiser: ‘What’s the first requisite for success?'”…
Anonymous
An old man going a lone highway
Came at the evening cold and gray
To a chasm vast and deep and wide,
Through which was flowing a swollen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim
That swollen stream held no fears for him
But he paused when safe on the other side
And built a bridge to …
When people around the world describe the qualities that make their family strong, these are some of the things they talk about.*
Appreciation and Affection
A while back I was reading about an expert on the subject of time management. One day this expert was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, he used an illustration I’m sure those students will never forget:
As this man stood in front of the group of high-powered overachievers he said, “Okay, time …
Introduction
Use this activity to introduce a topic and divide the youth into small groups or teams at the same time.
Game Description
Youth will break into groups with the each youth forming one of the letters of a keyword.
Game Materials
None
Game Preparation
Think about a keyword somehow related to the topic of discussion for your youth Bible …
STRESS SCALE FOR YOUTH
PTS: STRESS EVENT
100: 1. Death of spouse, parent, boyfriend/girlfriend
065: 2. Divorce (of yourself or your parents)
065: 3. Puberty
065: 4. Pregnancy (or causing pregnancy)
060: 5. Marital separation or breakup with boyfriend/girlfriend
060: 6. Jail term or probation
060: 7. Death of other family member (other than spouse, parent or boyfriend/girlfriend)
055: 8. …
You may be coping unsuccessfully with personal stress if you: