Life skills for kids : equipping your child for the real world / Christine M. Field.
Material type: TextPublication details: Colorado Springs, CO : Shaw, ©2000.Description: 332 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0877884722
- 9780877884729
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book | Main Library | Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's | 649.1 F453 | Available | 33111007948181 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Does your child know how to use a check book? Boil an egg? Do the laundry? Read a map? Homeschooler Christine Field helps parents systematically teach kids - from preschool to the teen years - what they need to know to thrive as adults.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-329) and index.
Introduction : what will our children need to know? -- 1. Responsibility in the small things : Don't start too early or too late -- 2. People skills : Getting along and resolving conflict -- 3. In the home skills : Everyone lives somewhere -- 4. Life navigation : Getting along in that great big world -- 5. Time organization : Managing your 7/24/365 -- 6. Space organization : managing physical space and stuff -- 7. Around the house : Fixing and maintaining stuff -- 8. Money, money, money : Can you handle it? -- 9. Healthy habits : Self-care skills for your one and only body -- 10. Your mind's life : Using your marvelous brain -- 11. Spiritual habits : The wellspring of life -- 12. Decision making : Practice for every day of the rest of your life -- 13. Creativity : Leaving a little beauty behind -- 14. Celebration skills : Finding joy in the everyday -- Epilogue : Now what? -- Appendix : A life skills toolbox of resources.
Whether your kids are toddlers or teenagers, this book will provide loads of inspiration and practical wisdom for preparing them to live fruitful, God-honoring lives in the real world.