Life skills - skills that take a back seat !
Students should learn life skill naturally through every day interactions and problem solving. The problem is that as students become busier with athletics, music lessons, and other extracurricular activities, life skills tend to take a back seat. Parents extend their roles as caregivers to support their children’s increasing interests, often cooking, cleaning and scheduling their life far longer than appropriate. As a result, students sometimes graduate high school without an awareness of what it takes to function on their own. What are Life Skills? Life skills are behaviors that enable individuals to adapt and deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life. There are many such skills, but core life skills include the ability to: (The Ten core Life Skills as laid down by WHO are:) Self-awareness Empathy Criticalthinking Creative thinking Decision making Problem Solving Effective communication Interpersonal relationship Coping with stress Coping wi