10 Important Tips To Teach Life Skills For Kids
Camp Kupugani is our Midwest overnight summer camp near Madison, Wisconsin (and Chicago, Illinois). Striving to help our families help campers develop, we found a recent article from The Mom Junction describing 10 important life skills to help your child. Check out the full article here and/or read our bullets below.
Life Skills
- Cooking
- Start at a young age
- Give them age appropriate tasks
- Cooking early in life will help them when they leave your house
- Wilderness Survival Skills
- Camp can help your children learn skills like fire building and shelter building
- These skills teach self-confidence
- Home Garden Basics
- Teaches respect for nature
- Use your backyard garden as a start
- First Aid Skills
- Teach them how to clean a wound on their own
- Start with easy first aid and work your way up
- Swimming
- A life skill everyone needs
- This skill could save themselves and others
- Money Management Skills
- Show them the value of money
- Guide them on how to save money
- Help them learn how much money they would need in an emergency
- Laundry
- This skill will help you at home
- They will learn how to take care of their clothes
- Household Repairs
- If you know how to fix it, help them learn too
- Teach them how to change a bulb and how to unclog the toilet
- Defense Skills
- Can help mind-focus development
- The ability to keep one safe is paramount
- Time Management
- No one likes a person that is late
- Use timers to show the passing of time
Source Article: https://www.momjunction.com/articles/best-life-skills-to-teach-children_006619/