Dinner Before Dessert

GOOD HABITS (SECTION #2) – Week 2 – Instructor’s Script

Start the lesson by gathering your students into a tight huddle and ask these three questions:

What does it mean to have good habits?
Why is it important to have good habits?
Can you give me an example of having good habits?

Then share the following story or lesson and ask the questions listed.

This week we are going to talk about doing the important things first.

Dinner Before Dessert - Who knows what that means? In response to answers they give you say) In other words do the important things first and the fun things later.

Let me tell you a story. Once there were two kids. The first one would always eat her desert first, and was then too full to eat her dinner. The second child ate dinner first.
Which child developed the strongest muscles?
Which child had the strongest teeth?

Once there were two different kids. They were supposed to clean their room before dinner and they had enough time to both clean their room and play. The first child decided to play first and clean latter. The second decided to clean first and play latter.

Which child kept worrying about getting home in time to clean the room before dinner (he didn’t want mom to get mad at him)?

Which child had more fun while playing?

“Dinner Before Dessert” means that you do what you should do first, and then do what you really want to do.

Successful kids grow up to be successful adults. If you can develop this habit, you will carry it with you for life.

So, the next time you find yourself tempted to skip over something that needs to be done for something more fun, say out loud, "Dinner before Dessert,” and then get busy. You will never regret it.

Everybody repeat after me “Dinner before Dessert.”