Category: Life Skills
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Life Skills: How to Write a Professional Email
Why Do We Need to Teach About Emails? Writing a professional email is an essential skill in both the academic and workplace settings. Think about all of the emails that you have sent to teachers, colleagues, and workplace superiors. These emails were written with special attention being paid to tone,…
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Life Skills: How to Teach Children to Manage Big Feelings
Children experience strong emotions just like adults; however, they often lack the language and skills to understand and manage those feelings. Children’s relationships, academic success, and overall well-being are all closely linked with learning how to handle emotions in a healthy way. Teaching children how to manage their feelings requires…
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Life Skills: Drivers Education
Teaching a teenager how to drive is a major milestone for both the teen and the parent or guardian. It marks a step toward independence for the teen and requires patience and responsibility from the instructor. It is a time when tensions can run high and patience can be low.…
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Life Skills: Auto Maintenance
One of the first freedoms that teenagers enjoy is driving. However, when we as adults hand over the keys, we often do not tell them about the regular maintenance needed to upkeep a vehicle. Teaching a teenager about car maintenance is not just about preventing breakdowns or extending the life…
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Life Skills: Teaching Safety in the Kitchen
While kitchens are the heart of most homes, they can be a dangerous place for children. If proper safety rules are not followed, the kitchen can become a scary place full of sharp items, hot surfaces, and heavy equipment. Teaching kids about kitchen safety from an early age helps them…
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Life Skills: Laundry
As both a cleaning and a personal hygiene task, washing laundry is an activity that everyone must do. Because this is such a basic task that we repeat regularly, it can slip our minds to actually teach our children how to do it themselves. This can lead to our newly…
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Life Skills: Home Maintenance
As we teach our kids different skills and subject matters that help prepare them for the future, one thing that is commonly overlooked is how to take care of a home. Whether you live in a rental or are a homeowner, there are certain home maintenance tasks that you must…
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Life Skills: Home Economics
Home economics classes were developed to prepare students for life on their own after high school. When I was in school, which honestly doesn’t feel that long ago, Home Economics class was a mandatory middle school course. This course then led into several optional specialized high school elective classes. Unfortunately,…
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Life Skills: How to Set and Meet Goals
Why is Setting Goals an Important Life Skill to Teach? Throughout your lifetime, there are many goals that you will strive to achieve. Good grades in school, saving up to buy a car, progression on a sports team, that promotion at work; all of these are goals that you work…
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Life Skills: Budgeting for Kids
Budgeting is making a plan for where your money will go. It is an important subject matter to teach children. Financial habits developed during childhood and through adolescence greatly influence financial behavior in adulthood. Starting at a young age, teaching your child good financial literacy and showing positive financial habits…