Life Skills for Kids Equipping Your Child for the Real World

by FIELD, CHRISTINE

• ISBN13: 9780877884729
• ISBN10: 0877884722
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-07
• Publisher: Shaw Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Christine Field has appeared on '' Family News in Focus '' and is the author of <i>The Field Guide to Home Schooling, Coming Home to Raise Your Children, and Should You Adopt?</i>

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Introduction: What Will Our Children Need to Know?	11	(15)
Responsibility in the Small Things: Don't Start Too Early or Too Late	26	(32)
People Skills: Getting Along and Resolving Conflict	58	(27)
In the Home Skills: Everyone Lives Somewhere	85	(27)
Life Navigation: Getting Along in That Great Big World	112	(15)
Time Organization: Managing Your 7/24/365	127	(13)
Space Organization: Managing Physical Space and Stuff	140	(10)
Around the House: Fixing and Maintaining Stuff	150	(15)
Money, Money, Money: Can You Handle It?	165	(32)
Healthy Habits: Self-Care Skills for Your One and Only Body	197	(22)
Your Mind's Life: Using Your Marvelous Brain	219	(16)
Spiritual Habits: The Wellspring of Life	235	(15)
Decision Making: Practice for Every Day of the Rest of Your Life	250	(22)
Creativity: Leaving a Little Beauty Behind	272	(11)
Celebration Skills: Finding Joy in the Everyday	283	(17)
Epilogue: Now What?	300	(2)
Appendix: A Life Skills Toolbox of Resources	302	(21)
Notes	323	(7)
Index	330	(3)
About the Author	333