Life skills

You may notice that I think life skills are vital to homeschooling. Not that I think actual schoolwork is not important but I think teach children life skills are equally important. Now if you have never heard of life skills, its just teaching the skills that are needed in everyday life from cooking to clean and how to bank money.

This chart has some ideas about different life skills you could teach your child, these include helping to clean the car and vacuuming. It also lists so ideas that I would never of thought of such as cutting and arranging flowers in a vase or teaching how to oil a squeaky door.

I remember when I moved out I knew how to cook and wash my clothes, but I had no clue when it came to budgeting and bill paying. I was also very clueless about how to clean and run a home. Now not that my parents did a bad job, they did an awesome job but I was very clueless about many of things.

Taking the time to make a list of some of the life skills that you think is important and then training your children in them, and having the vision that one day your children will be an adult makes you want to prepare them to the best of your ability. Children also learn by imitating what you do, take them with you when you pay bills or shopping. Explain to them the steps you take, show them your bills and explain what the numbers all mean.

You can affect future generations by your actions today.