Seems everyone will be home schooling for a while. Now is the time for a Life Skills Class.
Children can be taught different chores around the house.
How to make lunch with and without the use of a stove. Emergency maneuvers, why and when to call 911. What to say. What to do until help arrives.
Meditation
Financial matters like how to read a pay stub. Explain all the deductions. Retirement vehicles and the importance of starting early.
How to balance a checking account.
Perfect time to explain filing your taxes.
And why.
Civics
How our government works and why its important to vote.
How to change a tire
Gardening.
Canning
Making a menu for the week and grocery shopping on a budget.
Volunteering and the importance of giving our time to help others.
The list goes on, its a lifetime plan book.
Real life scenarios we just do naturally. Sometimes we don’t think to teach our children these things. We just assume they learn it in school. That’s not the case.
As parents our job is to prepare our children for the real world. Math, history and art are important aspects but life skills are a dying breed.
Teach independence.
Survival.
I don’t mean living through the zombie apocalypse, I mean being able to support yourself and not depend on someone else for your well being.
Take this time to know your children.
Really get to know them.
They spend half their day with other people, learning their values.
Make sure yours are instilled deep.
Turn the TV off.
Put the phones up.
Hug them.
Read together.
Be together.
And most importantly,
Love Big.
Lorene
