Family Life

FAMILY LIFE

Merit Badge Requirements

Name: _____________________ Troop No. ______________

1) Prepare an outline and discuss with your merit badge counselor what a family is and how the actions of one member can affect other members.

2) List 10 reasons why you are important to your family. Review these points with your parents or guardians and with your merit badge counselor.

3) Prepare a list of your regular home duties or chores (at least five) and do them for 90 days. Keep a record of how often you do each of them.

4) With the approval of your parents/guardians and your merit badge counselor, decide on and carry out a project that you would do around the house that would benefit the family. Submit a report to your merit badge counselor outlining how the project benefited the family.

5) Plan and carry out a project that involves the participation of your family. After carrying out the project, discuss the following with your merit badge counselor:

A) The objective or goal of the project

B) How individual members of your family participated

C) The results of the project

6) Do the following:

A) Discuss with your merit badge counselor how to plan and carry out a family council

B) After this discussion, plan and carry out a family council to include the following subjects:

1) How to avoid the use of drugs and drug abuse

2) Understanding the growing-up process, how the body changes, and making responsible decisions dealing with sex

3) Personal and family finances

If any requirements listed above differ from the requirements in the Family Life Merit Badge Book, the requirements in the Family Life Merit Badge Book are to be followed.

Requirement 1

What is a Family? _________________________________________________________

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How can the actions of one member affect other members?

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Requirement 2

10 Reasons I am important to my family are:

1) ________________________________________________

2) ________________________________________________

3) ________________________________________________

4) ________________________________________________

5) ________________________________________________

6) ________________________________________________

7) ________________________________________________

8) ________________________________________________

9) ________________________________________________

10) _______________________________________________

I have reviewed these with my parents __ Date:____ /____ /____ Parents signature: ________________________________

I have reviewed these with my merit badge counselor __Date:____ /____ /____ Couselor's signature: ________________________________

Requirement 3

*	Under Duty (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) enter in the name of the job or duty you will be performing.
**	Each day you complete a specific duty, fill in the date (01/01/00) it was performed.
*******	Depending on job type and responsibility, it may not be necessary for the job to be completed on a daily basis. Example: One of your jobs may be to mow the lawn. Since this is not done everyday, you may have only 12 dates listed under that duty instead of 90.

Requirement 4

My project, around the house, that will benefit my family is:

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How my project benefited the family: ________________________________________

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Requirement 5

My project that includes family participation is: _________________________________

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The objective/goal of the project is: ___________________________________________

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The number of family members that participated was: ____________________________

The results of the project were: _______________________________________________

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Requirement 6

Things I discussed with my counselor about how to plan and carry out a family council were:

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During family council we discussed "How to avoid the use of drugs and drug abuse".

Here are some of the ideas and thoughts: _______________________________________

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** During family council, we discussed the growing-up process, how the body changes,
and making responsible decisions dealing with sex.
During family council, we discussed our family finances. I learned:

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**This requirement may not be required by your merit badge counselor Contact your merit badge counselor for instruction on this topic**