life skills

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Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169568) • United States 22 Sep 24

Today I learned that our local high school is teaching a class called "Life 100" to Seniors. I do not know if it is required or elective. First class of the year taught hands on how to change a tire, and also taught how to get...

september 2024

life skills

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I liked this article this morning

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169568) • United States 16 Jul 23

https://www.yahoo.com/news/teacher-reveals-increasingly-rare-life-113000765.html The article is headlined about teaching students life skills. That is a big part of what our class does at school. Our students, however, start from...

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Can't List These Skills on My Resume

cmoneyspinner @cmoneyspinner (9218) • Austin, Texas 23 Oct 20

I'm glad for those TV stations where they show the old Westerns. I like to watch The Rifleman. I was watching one episode where some people were kidnapping Mark, Lucas Mc Cain's son. Mark is struggling to try to get loose. But...

humor

tv westerns

life skills

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Making the most of a bad situation

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382457) • Rockingham, Australia 18 Mar 20

A friend of Vince’s was commenting on Facebook about how people are worried about their child missing a few weeks, or maybe more, of school. He suggested that parents could always do a little ‘home-schooling’ and teach their...

coronavirus

life skills

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Who taught you to tie your shoelaces?

Bill McAlpine @ScotMac (1335) • Edinburgh, Scotland 10 Jan 20

Or how to tell the time or how to use a knife and fork? Was it your parents - or your grandparents? Many grandparents spend a lot of time with their grandchildren showing them how to do many essential life skills. But there is...

grandparents

life skills

fun

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Most Things get Easier with Practice

MrsJ @SophiaMorros (5044) • Belews Creek, North Carolina 6 Sep 19

Somehings, however, do not. I am in the process of teaching my youngest child how to drive. This process should be old hat. I’ve successfully taught two of her older siblings to drive (my husband taught the third) and she is a...

parenting

life skills

control

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Life skill..

Arunima Singh @arunima25 (93194) • Bangalore, India 4 Dec 18

I always emphasize on life skills more than academic skills. Today I felt so proud as a parent. I entered home and was surprised to see it all tidy up. I left it in mess in morning before rushing to hospital. My daughters did a...

life skills

parenting

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I've made a Kimono!

krissy @teltel (184) 15 Oct 18

After the bad weather, I thought of checking our serger machine to make sure it didn't built moist, then I saw the fabric I bought a year ago (which I completely had forgotten haha!) and then had this urge to cut the patterns and...

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Encouraging and Exploring skills / talents our kids while young

carol mill @carolmill876 (45) • United Kingdom 23 Aug 18

I came across this today, and I thought my 16/17 year old self could have done with these encouraging words while I was waiting for my high school results. Growing up, my parents emphasized a lot about education and that was all...

education

enterprenuership

life skills

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Transitioning

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169568) • United States 27 Mar 18

The young lady on my caseload is in fifth grade. She will leave this school and go to middle school next year. Our teacher has arranged for her to participate a few times in the class she will probably go to next year. We cut...

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Millennial Teens and face-to-face communication: Are our kids in dire need of help with certain Life Skills?

Jose Gonzalo Tapia @gonzalotapia (8) • Caracas, Venezuela 28 Oct 17

I am the lucky father of a girl who was born on June 21st 2000, so she is 17 years old. And this also means I am the father of a Millennial teen, and as such, I am worried about certain things I have noticed regarding my...

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Reading Lesson--Baking

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169568) • United States 4 Feb 17

Our fourth grade students read at second grade level or lower. They also are missing in some basic home experiences. Our reading lesson yesterday incorporated some history, social studies, and home skills as well. We have talked...

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Well yes, we did go

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169568) • United States 22 Jan 17

I did not do a follow up about my student and swimming on Friday. I originally posted here on Thursday night. http://www.mylot.com/post/3023603/swimmingly Sometimes there are two of our students and two honor society students who...

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Life, for people who don’t know how to do it.

Fleur @Fleura (35107) • United Kingdom 25 Nov 16

Yesterday I was chatting to a friend who has long suffered from mental illness. We were taking about the various therapies and I mentioned that a recent study showed that mindfulness cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) was as...

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Remaining Hopeful is key

Teep11 @Teep11 (7673) • United States 8 Nov 16

It's extremely important that we be filled with "hope." With hope we'll sink like an abandoned ship. The reason why we see so much depression is because so many have lost hope. They've given up for son reason. Even if no one shows...

hopefulness

advancement

life skills

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Yay for Big One!

Fleur @Fleura (35107) • United Kingdom 12 Feb 16

Last week we had a session of re-organising Big One’s bedroom. Big One has a decent-sized bedroom, so she had lots of her books and toys stored there. Little one has a tiny room so there’s only just room for her bed and a chest of...

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coaching

wilros247 @wilros247 (14) • United States 23 Feb 11

I love sports and believe that sport does as much to shape the minds and character of our youth as any school. I do have one concern when it comes to coaching our youth. Its been my observation that most coaches of youth sports...

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what skills do you think are worth mastering in life?

magnus1 @magnus1 (18) • United States 28 Dec 09

In life people have different skills and talents.I am wondering what should be the best skill that everyone need master.

life skills

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How soon do you INVITE someone into your HOME?

CoffeeAnyone @CoffeeAnyone (3210) • Canada 24 Oct 09

My son who is new in town, doesn't know anyone. He goes out to a coffee shop the other night and meets a young man around his age. They get to talking and find out they both like to play The Rock Band game that comes with the WII...

life skills

Rational Thinking The Weapon Of Greater Good

Brian @wolfie34 (26770) • United Kingdom 27 Aug 09

How often do you use rational thinking in every day life? Do you know how to use rational thinking when things go wrong for you or you struggle to deal with something that has happened which has upset you or hurt you. Do...

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