Teenagers need to know “How to do” Life Skills.
There are essential things that we each need to do in our lives and your young child is no exception – and the reason there need to be life skills that they learn early in their life is that it does the following:
Builds confidence
Strong work ethics
Self-respect
We all need to be productive in our lives – from the poorest person to the richest person there is a need to be productive. And you can see from reading about families that inherit a lot of money that in a generation or 2 the members have not had to be productive and the money goes away or there could be members that have no purpose or meaningful life. Or we can see the poorest of families that do not want their children to work or do any hard labor like they had to so the children have no idea how to get out there in life and make a successful life.
The following is a list-and there may be many more you can think of:
Wash their own laundry
Earn and manage money
Prepare meals
Manage and complete their schoolwork
Politely and respectfully talk to adults
How to deal with emergency
Navigate to nearby areas
Wake themselves in the morning
Clean the house
Life skills are so important that adults in their 20’s who have not learned Life Skills at home or had a job after school or during the summer are having a harder time functioning after they graduate from college. That college degree may not be the only thing they need-they need to have:
work ethic
decision-making skills
be motivated
be a self-starter
have time management
organizational skills
these are just some of the skills that a young person needs.
In their school classes, they need to learn the reading, writing, math and computer skills.
Life skills are a multitude of things that a child needs not only growing up but as an adult.
Teenagers need to know “How to do” Life Skills.
Teenagers need to know “How to do” Life Skills.
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