Writing Prompt
High School Social Emotional Development
Easy vs Right- Responsible Choices Writing Prompt
What's easy in the short term is often more painful or harder in the long term. Help teens connect long- and short-term consequences with this journaling page that explores ideas about easy choices versus right decisions. Scroll down to download and print the journaling PDF or explore even more writing prompts.
- What are some situations in which it can be hard to do the right thing?
- What is a situation in which you did the easy thing (for example with a relationship or a responsibility) but then you had to go back and fix it?
- Why can the right way seem harder at first, but be easier in the long run?
More writing prompts for this quote:
- What are some situations in which it can be hard to do the right thing?
- What does it mean that there’s the easy way and the right way? What did you expect the phrase to be?
- What is a situation in which you did the easy thing (with a relationship, with a responsibility) but then found you had to go back and fix it? Was there a better way to handle it?
- Why can the right way seem harder at first, but be easier in the long run?
- Have you ever seen someone ignore a problem only to have it get worse? What could have been different if they acted sooner?
- What do this quote about conflict resolution and this quote about doing the right thing have in common? What role can emotions and self control play in getting what you really want?
