Definition of Life Skills:

Life skills help us in managing thoughts, actions, and emotions to achieve goals. Skills make us overcome the circumstances which are going in our daily life and gives us a response to get engaged towards our goals without any distractions by solving problems.


Some Key Elements of Life Skills:

1.Focus and Self-Control: Children need the skill to achieve goals especially in a world filled with distractions and information overload. This includes paying attention, exercising, self-control remembering the rules, and thinking flexibly.


2.Perspective Taking: This involves understanding what others think and feel, and forms the basis for children's understanding of the intentions of parents, teachers, and friends. Children with this skill are less likely to get involved in conflicts.


3.Communicating: Much more than understanding language reading, writing, and speaking, communicating is the skill of determining what one wants to communicate and realizing how it will be understood by others. It is the skill teachers and employees feel is most lacking today.


4.Making Connections: This life skill is at the heart of learning: Figuring out what's the same, what's different, and sorting them into categories. Making unusual connections is at the core of creativity and moves children beyond knowing information to use information well.


5.Critical Thinking: This skill helps children analyze and evaluate information to guide their beliefs,  decisions, and actions. Children need critical thinking to make sense of the world around them and to solve problems.


6.Taking on Challenges: Children who take on challenges instead of avoiding or simply coping with them achieve better in school and in life.


7.Self Directed and Engaged Learning: By setting goals and strategies for learning, children become attune and better prepared to change as the world changes. This helps children foster their innate curiosity to learn and helps them realize their potential.


These skills are based on our daily life: they bring together our social, emotional, and cognitive capacities to problem solve and achieve goals.