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Life & Well Being Focusing on Life Skills in Education

By L Akshay Kumar

17 Jul 2021

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Why do we need to focus on Life Skills?

Building life skills is essentially an exercise in helping children develop sound judgement and good habits for long term stability, wellness, and success. Life skills are behaviors that enable individuals to adapt and deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life.

That Ten core life skills as laid down by WHO or:

1)Self awareness
2) Empathy
3) Critical thinking
4) Creative thinking
5) Decision making
6) Problem solving
7) Effective Communication

8) Interpersonal relationship
9) Coping with stress

10) Coping with emotion

Think of life skills as the building blocks or framework that allow knowledge they acquire in school to real world problems and situations. Also referred to as "soft skills" in a professional context, the ability to think abstractly and approach problems from multiple angles to find practical solutions, and the skill to communicate clearly and effectively are just as important as technical knowledge in a particular field or academic subject.

Parents can take in active role in teaching life skills at home with projects that provide real world examples and lessons in decision making and problem solving. They can be as simple as assigning household chores and budgeting exercises through an allowance, to caring of a pet or volunteering in the community.

Life Skills education contributes to: