What should you do?

John likes maps and he knows almost all the roads in his town. In the car with his mother on the way home from school, he notices that his mother is not driving home the fastest way! He tells her this, but when she does not follow his directions, he starts to get pretty mad.

What should John do?

Allison has planned a great Fourth of July party where everything will be red, white and blue. When the party starts, her grandmother arrives with red, white and blue cake from the grocery. Except the cake is the wrong colors! It’s just red and blue, with NO WHITE! Allison closes the cake box and says, “No cake for the party!”

What should Allison do?

Tiffany just loves to have bagels every Sunday morning. One Sunday, Dad tells her, “It’s Mother’s Day. No bagels today; Mom wants to have sweet rolls instead.” Tiffany thinks to herself, “Mother’s Day is going to be pretty awful!”

What should Tiffany do?

Harold and Jack always spend their Saturday’s in Harold’s basement playing with Legos. One day, Jack shows up Saturday morning at Harold’s house with two friends of his and a football. Harold says, “No thanks” and goes down the basement with his box of Legos.

What should Harold do?

Irene is thinking about inviting Ann over to play video games. Irene remembers that Ann does not like to play video games very much, and Irene LOVES video games. Irene decides to not invite Ann over.

The teacher tells the class they have to work in groups of two and do a report on the topic of pets. Alex has a pet snake and he wants to do the report on snakes. But no one in the class will agree to work with him; none of them likes snakes.

What should Alex do?

Albert’s mom and dad got divorced and now he spends weekends with his dad and his new step-mother. The stepmother says, “Every Sunday, we go to a movie, but we have to do clean-up first, and your job is to sweep the floors.”

Albert thinks, “Moms are supposed to sweep, not kids!”

What should Albert do?

Ted never misses his favorite TV show at 10:00 Saturday morning. The phone rings, and the dad answers the phone. “Ted—it’s your friend Max. He wants to talk to you.” Ted says, “I can’t talk! My show is on!”

What should Ted do?

When Jasmine was learning about the summer camp, her mom showed her a picture of two kids at the camp in a row boat. When Jasmine actually gets to the camp on the first day, she finds out that they only have canoes, and NO row boats at all! Jasmine decides that this not a good camp after all.

What should Jasmine do?

At the baseball field in the park, Amy’s friends are trying to make up a new way to play the game. They are saying that you get FIVE strikes instead of THREE. Amy starts to tell them to go back to the REAL rules.

What should Amy do?