Life Skills List

TAH-DAH!!!! Here I am actually posting the list of skills I feel are important for kids to learn so that they can be functioning adults in society. (Of course, they need language arts skills, math skills, etc as well but these are all those other skills that usually fall into the cracks.
Feel free to add whatever you feel are important as well.

Life Skills 101

1. Plan meals, maintain budget, shop for groceries & plan meals.

2. Know your way around town, where important locations are in your town & how to use public transportation.

3. Know your name, your parents name, emergency phone numbers & address.

4. Emergency plans.

5. CPR, First Aid

6. Basic car maintenance including gassing up the car.

7. Computer stuff: navigation, safety issues, writing, backing up files & printing.

8. Entertaining.

9. Hospitality.

10. Charity & caring for others.

11. Conservation & care of our planet.

12. Home care: cleaning, maintenance, protection of, safety & budgeting.

13. Job Skills: job applications, interview skills, professionalism, integrity, perseverance & a good work ethic.

14. Time management skills.

15. Life goals & plans.

16. Walking with God & listening to His plans for your life.

17. Scrapbooking, journaling or other means of keeping memories.

18. Crafting or hobbies.

19. Knowing how to relax & have fun.

20. Creating a Hope Chest, either literally or figuratively as you prepare items for the kids to have when they are grown up & move out on their own.

21. Personal safety, physically & emotionally.

22. Friendships: what makes a good friend & how to strengthen friendships.

23. Decorating & making a space your own.

24. Creating a haven, a place of peace & rejuvenation where you can relax.

25. Yard maintenance.

26. Gardening.

27. Pet care.

28. Shopping skills: budgeting, economics, advertisement discernment.

29. Money skills: banking, saving, tithing, checking & credit card skills.

30. Communication skills: speaking, writing, voice tone, word choices.

31. Common etiquette skills: RSVPs, thank you notes, please & thank you, holding doors open & & offering seats to women & the elderly, respect of elders.

32. Life geography skills: map reading, tallying distances.

33. Trip planning: research, budgeting, planning.

34. Family traditions & their importance.

35. Maintaining a balanced life.

36. Clothing knowledge: care of, appropriateness of, making, buying.

37. Child care & interaction skills.

38. Conflict skills & anger management.

39. Driving skills.

40. Appreciation & creation of beauty through the arts & music.

41. Appreciation & respect of yourself & others.

42. Caring for the sick.

43. Sewing & mending skills.

44. Family care.

45. Family history.

46. Personal space training, including ATM etiquette, interaction in crowds & when dealing 1 on 1 with others.

Okay, so there you have my list. There are also a lot on my Health list that could be put on this list but I have chosen to break them up this way. If I think of anything else, I shall post it. For now, take this list & see what you can use off of it!

Until next time- Bj