Teaching Your Children Life Skills (RARE BOOKS)

But teaching your children doesn't mean taking time out of each day to impart some pearls of wisdom... in fact, it's just the opposite. By incorpor ating a spirit of exploration and experimentation in your everyday inter- actions with your child-and recognizing the day-to-day tasks and challenges that can build coping skills and practical abilities-you can offer the most valuable and lasting lessons he or she will ever learn.

Teaching Your Children Life Skills discusses:

10 important things to keep in mind when teaching your child

how chores, parties, shopping trips, vacations and other situations can offer opportunities for learning important practical skills

concrete ways to build resourcefulness, patience, and self-reliance

how to teach good manners and good values-without lecturing and nagging

guidelines for developing self-esteem and long-term life skills through everyday tasks

Teaching your children life skills just requires plenty of love and an aware- ness of the many opportunities for education that life offers. This book will help you find the opportunities and make the world your child's classroom.