It is important to recognize the value of life skills and incorporate them into formal and informal educational settings to ensure children are equipped with the necessary tools for living a fulfilling and well-rounded life. What we see normally in our (parents’) busy lives, our kids are occupied, I must say absorb the android screens more than engage in family life, here are some skills that we should engross in their lives.
Life Skills We Want for Our Kids Before It Is Too Late.
These skills that my child is lacking now, Impact their Academic Skills!
Also, their overall after-school, higher education, and practical life.
If the statement above is correct, then what can I do to help my child have the abilities and competencies that enable my child to effectively plan and succeed in various aspects of life?
It’s simple to give life skills a set of abilities that are not typically taught in formal academic settings but are essential for personal well-being, interpersonal relationships, and professional success. Here are some important life skills:
- Communication: It includes expressing thoughts and emotions clearly, active listening, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
- Emotional Intelligence: Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to recognize and manage emotions, both in oneself and others.
- Critical Thinking: Critical thinking involves rational and logical thinking, problem-solving, and making informed decisions based on evidence and analysis.
- Resilience: Resilience is the ability to cope with stress and adapt to change. It involves developing a broadening mentality, managing setbacks, and maintaining a positive point of view.
- Time Management: Time management is the ability to prioritize tasks, set goals, and effectively allocate time and resources.
- Collaboration and Teamwork: Collaboration involves working effectively with others towards a common goal.
- Decision-Making: Decision-making involves weighing pros and cons, analyzing risks, and taking responsibility for the outcomes of decisions.
- Financial Literacy: Financial literacy is the knowledge and skills necessary to manage personal finances effectively. It includes budgeting, saving, investing, understanding credit and debt, and making informed financial decisions.
- Adaptability: Adaptability refers to the ability to adjust to new situations, and embrace change, it involves being open-minded, learning from experiences, and being willing to acquire new skills as needed.
- Self-Care and Well-being: Self-care involves taking care of one’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
Life skills for a 7-year-old can be introduced and nurtured gradually. At this age, children are developing their independence, social skills, and self-awareness.
START FROM HERE AND GO FURTHER AHEAD T O GIVE THEM ALL LIFE SKILLS
GRADUALLY.
NO CHILD IS LITTLE OR BIG ITS THE MIND THAT WE HAVE TO NURTURE:
From a young age as 3 to 12 years of age, one can teach a child to do these simple tasks that will automatically develop life skills in them:
Faith: Getting close to kids and asking them how they feel about the creator and how they relate to God (Allah SW) will help them in self-awareness, talk, talk, and talk from different angles about the Creator of the Universe, the things around, the blessings we all are getting in life. Realization of One’s life purpose is crucial, or else life is Empty without this feeling.
TIP: A parent can understand this concept of learning through sheik.
Manners: Aadab is what? IKHLAQIYAT If we do practice and make them do it politely, empowering them with the Ikhlaaq that our prophets SAWW taught us will lead them to the right path.
Cooking: tell them how they can prepare just the salad or peel potatoes and keep relating to the stories of Shahabas RA. Stories of Salaf must be deeply rooted in the hearts and minds of the young Generation.
Cleaning: Self-cleanliness and keeping the environment clean, by doing it along with the kids. keeping Bedrooms clean, Bathrooms and kitchen, etc.
Self-care and Tauhara: cleanliness is half of faith, everyone knows that but practically it’s usually taught in a very social way, just for show-off purposes, the Rooh of Iman is absent. But Tahara just to please Allah SW will make the actual difference.
Daily chores: give them the little task of cleaning spoons and forks, and drying the dishes. Wiping the floor after washing dusting and putting the plates in the sink after being done with food. Show them how to fold the square piece of bread napkins or kitchen towel.
Simple repairs: help them learn how to use simple tools like needle and thread to put a patch in their clothes or just do hemming, also there is no difference between a boy or girl older or younger telling them how to use a hammer a nail to a boy is as important as telling it to a girl. Young hands should be trained as techy as they can at a young age.
Painting: is not a job just for the painter, it’s a skill anyone can learn starting from paper to canvas to the walls or flour in the backyard medium could be chalk or mud.
Shopping: teaching the task of shopping is very simple as we pay for whatever we like to buy, fewer people know about the technique of buying the right product for a reasonable price not to mention the ingredients whether it’s filled with all sorts of junk, making awareness of Haram and Halal. Kids should know at an early age how to shop for
healthy Tauyyab foods.