Parents have a different way of looking at things when it comes to their children. Even thrifty people do not hesitate to spend on anything to help their children be happy and successful in life. Even then, most parents fail to inculcate the values and characteristics in their children that they deem righteous and respectable. The problem is not in their intention but their strategy.
The most precious gift you can give to your children is your time. But making every second count is another matter. Many books are helping parents make the best of their time with their children by indulging in activities, games and role-playing so that they enjoy the best time of their lives and also build strong personalities in their children. These books are valuable resources to teach your children skills for life: 1. Tips and Tricks for Teaching Your Kids Valuable Skills – Will Braingames The perfect parenting pocketbook is one of the most recently published on developing life skills, Tips and Tricks for Teaching Your Kids Valuable Skills. There are two things that make this book worthy of your investment. Firstly, it's a book with precious tips, tricks and lessons for parents that come from a grandmother who led her life with a work-life balance people only crave. Her experience of upbringing her children and their children has valuable insights for parents of every culture and society. Secondly, the book has tables, lists, and illustrations for valuable skills like counting, reading, observation, general knowledge, spelling, metaphors, and much more. Tips and tricks accompany every activity to design such actions by themselves and learn the true art of parenting. 2. Life Skills for Kids: Equipping Your Child for the Real World – Christine M. Field Although this book was published 21 years ago, it is probably more helpful for parents today. The reason is the prevalence of technology use in teens and even in kids below ten years of age. This book has training techniques for basic life skills like boiling an egg, writing a check, or reading a map. Parents must learn how to teach their children these life skills in the best manner. This book equips them with these techniques very well. 3. Teaching Life Skills to Children and Teens With ADHD: A Guide for Parents and Counselors - Vincent J. Monastra ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is one of the common problems modern-day parents are facing. Many parents with children diagnosed with ADHD deal with it as a disease rather than taking measures to improve the ‘deficit’ in the child’s attention span. This book is all about how you can teach life skills to such children; there are many interactive checklists, journal entries and quizzes to help you achieve this feat. Life skills for ADHD children are not different from other children, but some skills need more attention than others. For example, engaging others in conversations; responding appropriately to teasing; trying group activities to avoid isolation; establishing friendships and social networks; seeking out confidence-building experiences; solving problems and getting organized; developing healthy eating, showing sensitivity to others emotions; and sleeping and exercise habits; these skills are more important for ADHD children, and you should make a note of how much time you will spend extra on helping them learn these skills. 4. The Little Book of Life Skills: Deal with Dinner, Manage Your Email, Make a Graceful Exit, and 152 Other Expert Tricks - Erin Zammett Ruddy There are many simple and complex tasks that we carry out every day. We don’t realise which tasks are complex because we are used to doing them all. For example, driving is a more difficult task than brushing your truth, but both come instinctively when you are used to doing them daily. This book has a hack for all types of tasks, from the simplest to the most complex. The author has chosen to include all kinds of life skills like house chores, e.g., ironing a shirt, or conversational skills, e.g., how to end an argument and management skills, e.g., how to take care of a plant in the house. All the tricks are bound to give a lesson to teach life skills of any kind, so it's a must-read for all parents. 5. Life Skills: Stuff You Should Really Know By Now – Julia Laflin People learn many life skills at a very late age – and only because they were stuck in a situation when they were forced to learn it like making a fire with wood, or sewing a button or speaking in front of a large audience. When you are confronted with doing these things for the first time, you think about why you did not learn them in the first place. This will also push you to teach your children the same skills so that they do not have to face the same difficulties as yourself. In this book by Julia Laflin, parents will find ways to learn these skills themselves and then teach their children. So it's a double benefit for the parents. This book is different from the others on the list because it has many things for parents who haven't had any child yet but are expecting one soon. It will equip them with the learning of day-to-day tasks ahead of time to plan properly and teach their child all the tricks and tips to master these life skills. 6. The Useful Book: 201 Life Skills They Used to Teach in Home Ec and Shop – David Bowers The book is practically an encyclopedia of Do-It-Yourself skills related to cooking, cleaning, sewing, building, and repairing at home. It's a great guide for parents because it has 138 practical projects with step-by-step instructions, guidelines, charts and lists. Somewhere in there, you will also find a Kitchen Crash Course and Sewing 101 to learn these skills from the introductory level and then build up gradually to master them. 7. How to Be a Person: 65 Hugely Useful, Super-Important Skills to Learn before You're Grown Up - Catherine Newman It’s a win-win book for both parents and children. Parents can learn how to help their children learn about the essential skills with the activities from the book. Children can also learn these skills on their own and can discuss with their parents who to improve the arrangements in the house. No matter which book you choose first, remember that children learn at their own pace, and it is your responsibility to select the books' resources wisely and help the children learn these skills faster.
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