Family Life Merit Badge Requirements

 
1.    Prepare and outline and discuss with your merit badge
      counselor what your family is and how the actions of
      one member can affect the 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 parent/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 discussion.
     (b) After this discussion, plan and carry out a family
         discussion to include the following subjects:
         (1) How to avoid the use of drugs and drug abuse
         (2) Understand the growing-up process, how the body 
             changes and making responsible decisions dealing with sex
         (3) Personal and family finances