Life Skills are Best Learned…
…living life, in your family/neighborhood, community, city, county, state, nation…world! Unless your child’s high school has a ‘personal finance’ class, s/he is not going to learn how to balance a check book; unless/until, you show them yours and how you do it, they get there own joint account with you or they never have one until they are out in the real world and then most of us (myself included) screw up royally in the beginning or actually ‘never’ really learn how to manage our money or how to simply add deposits and subtract withdraws.
I can think of SO many more examples, but this one very basic, simple, yet important life skill came first to my mind. Go read the article…it’s great and you might just learn something or decide that it is high time that you find out whether or not your child is learning the skills named in the article.
Cheers!
Michele
27 Skills that Your Child Needs to Know That She’s Not Getting in School!
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Susan Kishner
Comment by Susan Kishner — February 2, 2008 @ 6:57 pm
[…] yet (mind you I am only 26 at this time), that I have been prepared for because of school. In fact, there were TONS of things that I NEVER learned in school that I have needed out here in the real world that I have had to learn […]
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