SIBLINGS

OBJECTIVE: To serve as an initial get-acquainted icebreaker

PROCEDURE: Before the session begins, ask the group to divide themselves in the four corners of the room with these subsets:

1. If they were the oldest in the family,

2. If they were the youngest in the family,

3. If they were any place in the middle,

4. If they were an only child.

As the Participants seek out their respective groups, ask them to recall what they liked or disliked about their respective places in their growing up days. For example the oldest may have had to care for their younger brother(s) or sister(s) or the youngest may have had all the "hand-me-down" clothes. In retrospect, would they have preferred a different place?

After each group has ten-fifteen minutes to discuss these and other categories. ask for one person to respond for each group. (Groups should be limited to eight-ten people

Materials Needed: None

Approximate Time Required: Twenty Minutes

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