ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS FOR YOUTH

Aside from enrolling your teens in the best schools in town, you should make them acquire life skills that will help them cope with adult life. No doubt, formal education helps children to develop communication, critical thinking, and analytical skills, but it doesn't equip them with all the essential life skills they need to thrive and survive in our modern world.

Here are basic skills a teen should learn:

1- Money, financial or budgeting skills
2- Personal grooming, cleaniness and hygiene
3- Social skills and manners
4- Organization skills
5- Domestic skills
6- Effective communication skills
7- Behavioral skills
8- Problem-solving skills
9- Time management skills
10- Decision making skills.

Life is full of surprises, but not all are pleasant. If you want to save your teens/youths from nasty surprises in adulthood, then you should help them acquire these basic life skills as youths by attending or participating in empowerment programmes or mentoring them so that they would be able to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of adult life.