Life skills to teach a child
Discussion
Guys,
What life skills should I teach my child? Things you think are important, or wish someone had shown you when you were younger. Irrespective of whether it's a boy or a girl. My list so far:-
1. How to swim
2. How to budget
3. How to light a fire
4. How to check oil, water etc or change a tyre
over to you.
What life skills should I teach my child? Things you think are important, or wish someone had shown you when you were younger. Irrespective of whether it's a boy or a girl. My list so far:-
1. How to swim
2. How to budget
3. How to light a fire
4. How to check oil, water etc or change a tyre
over to you.
P924 said:
Guys,
What life skills should I teach my child?
1. How to swim
Swimming is great, it's good for you and it's top fun. I'm a strong swimmer and swim every day.What life skills should I teach my child?
1. How to swim
But.....swimming is unlikely to save your life. Very few people who drown do so falling from boats etc. Most people who drown do so because they are strong swimmers, they overestimate their talent and get themselves into deadly situations, whereas the weak or non swimmer would never get themselves into such a daft situation in the first place.
I came within a whisker of drowning on my 27th birthday, because I was a strong swimmer. Everyone else stayed on the beach because the waves looked too big. They were right, they were too big!!!
My mother taught me a hell of a lot about this world. But something she told me when I was getting hassle of fellow pupils at school, at the age of 12-14 ish, has stuck with me through life.. "You will always meet a tosser, what ever you try and do in life, the trick is just to smile at them and get on with things"
First time I heard her 'swear' and a great piece of advice.
First time I heard her 'swear' and a great piece of advice.
Use common sense. Not many people appear to do that nowadays.
I suppose personally I wished I'd followed my dream and learnt to fly. I always wanted to fly fast jets or helicopters in the RAF.
And having just returned from Duxford today I still (at 39 years old) wished I'd done it.
So:
1. Use common sense.
2. Follow your dreams and don't let hard work get in the way of you not getting there.
I suppose personally I wished I'd followed my dream and learnt to fly. I always wanted to fly fast jets or helicopters in the RAF.
And having just returned from Duxford today I still (at 39 years old) wished I'd done it.
So:
1. Use common sense.
2. Follow your dreams and don't let hard work get in the way of you not getting there.
Give them the space and opportunity to find out for themselves. Just be around to help, advise, mop up afterwards.
They won't listen anyhow, my kids never did, I never did. Being allowed to learn myself was the best thing my parents ever did, it was far more effective than being wrapped in cotton wool and simply advised.
They won't listen anyhow, my kids never did, I never did. Being allowed to learn myself was the best thing my parents ever did, it was far more effective than being wrapped in cotton wool and simply advised.
Any people skills type stuff, such as how to listen, being patient with others, not everybody has the same values but that doesn't make them bad people, when your mouth is open you are not learning anything, that type of stff cos it's so important later in life and they might as well get not the habit at a young age.
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