Core Life Skills for all

Life Skills education is today recognised as the most critical input for a child's development. All care-givers...parents, teachers, trainers and coaches need to ensure that as children grow and develop they acquire COPING SKILLS. By coping skills I mean the ability to face life's situations...stress, competition, victory & defeat, family tensions, social strife etc...in the most apt way to be able to come out stronger. These skills are:

CORE LIFE SKILLS:

• Self awareness  
  
• Empathy  
• Critical thinking
• Creative thinking
• Decision making
  
• Problem solving
• Effective communication
• Inter-personal relationship
• Coping with stress
• Coping with emotions 
  

Every child possesses an inherent aptitude & talent that needs an expression. Caregivers must therefore seek to provide appropriate platforms for this aspect of the child's personality to be heard. These forums should instill the Core Life Skills as part of a larger process of identifying the hidden potential in children.

In the next few updates I shall elaborate on each of these skills in more detail...giving examples from real life situations. These inputs I am sure will add more value to the efforts in child development already in process.

Perhaps the best part about Life Skills Education is that care-givers too acquire the necessary skills to cope with life's vagiaries. Many may be experts in their own way...but the process of getting involved with kids in this way will surely make them even more skilled.