Raise Your Kids to Succeed by Chris Palmer

Author:Chris Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781475829853
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

You also need to teach practical life skills to your child. Among these are:

Eating nutritiously: Teach your child how to prepare some simple, healthy meals and snacks, so that he doesn’t fall back on fast food and take-out.

Running a household: Teach your child basic household chores, such as how to clean floors, dust, vacuum, do the laundry, change a light bulb, and make a bed. It is also important to teach her simple car maintenance, such as how to check the oil level and tire wear. Avoid sexism in assigning tasks and chores.

Managing time well and being organized: Show your child how to keep a calendar and how to note commitments such as dentist appointments, hockey practices, and school tests. A calendar can also be used to track assignments and remind your child when to start preparation for a test, an interview, or a meeting. He needs to learn how to be organized and how to find key documents quickly when he needs them.

Budgeting and money: From a young age, kids are bombarded with messages from the media to convince them to buy, spend, consume, and acquire. Very rarely do they receive messages about the importance of saving or limiting their spending. You have an important role to play here. Teach your child that wanting something is not the same as needing something. Without that education, teens may leave home for college with a barely controlled and dangerous impulse to consume. Help your child become financially literate so that she knows how credit cards and interest rates work, how to balance a checkbook, avoid large credit card debt, be frugal, and save for the future.

Handling emergencies: Teach your child what to do if she is in a car accident, if she is pulled over by the police, if she ends up going to the emergency room, or if a friend or roommate passes out and your child needs to dial 911. At a young age, your child should memorize her home address and phone number.

Giving a presentation: Everyone at some point needs to get up in front of a group and make a presentation. The more you can prepare your child to speak capably and confidently in public, the better off he will be. For example, while in the car, ask your child to describe as much of what he is seeing as possible within one minute.

Running a meeting: Everyone also will need to run a meeting at some point. You can give your children practice doing this capably by having them take turns running the weekly family meeting (see chapter 3).

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