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Life Skills to Teach Your Children Early

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Teaching life skills to your children is your priority as a parent. Life skills teach children how to become responsible adults in the real world. However, it is not always easy. Which life skills does your child need to learn? Start with the basics. 

 

Cooking Skills

 

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As your child starts to learn about kitchen safety and the importance of nutrition, it is a great time to start teaching them the basics of cooking. Start off slow with things like boiling water, measurements, and following specific directions. As your child gets better at the basics, start teaching them different recipes and what kinds of foods will go well together for a meal. Use this time to focus on healthy nutrition. Try to include the important food groups into your meals, and teach your child the importance of a healthy and balanced meal. 

 

What to do in an emergency

 

As soon as your child starts to learn his or her address and phone number, start talking to them about what to do in an emergency. Teach your child how to call 911 and what information they may need to know to complete the call. Practice reacting quickly so they will know what to do under pressure. Come up with a solid plan of what your child should do in the event of a fire, break-in, or a downed family member. When your child is old enough, you can enroll them into a CPR class to become CPR and First Aid certified. 

 

Money Management

 

Learning how to manage your money as an adult is hard. By teaching your child at a young age, you are helping them to create good money management skills and habits that will help them in their adulthood. Don’t be afraid to talk to your child about bills and how to pay them. Talk about the importance of saving money and how to budget monthly expenses. Money management skills are very important in the future of your child. Teaching them to be financially responsible will help them avoid unnecessary hardships in their adulthood. 

 

Hygiene

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Hygiene becomes so much of a habit that sometimes parents overlook teaching their kids exactly how to shampoo their hair or brush their teeth. Creating good hygiene habits now will give a bigger probability of your children keeping these habits through adulthood. Teach your children how to take care of their bodies and nutrition. This basic skill is key to good health in the future. 

 

Homemaking skills

 

Taking care of the home is a major life skill that children should learn at a young age. Instilling these habits now will help them to take care of their possessions in the future. Teach your child how to do the dishes, do their laundry, and clean the house. Instead of this becoming just another chore, get creative and make a game out of it. Make it fun for them to take care of their surroundings. This is a good lesson in responsibility.

 

As children grow older, the context of these skills will become more advanced. As they age and start to understand the world more, these skills will start to come in handy. Your children will be happy that you have taught them basic life lessons when they start to go off on their own. Set your children up for success now while they are young, so they can skip the unnecessary hardships that you had to struggle with yourself. 

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