As dedicated homeschooling parents, your goal is to ensure your kids receive a well-balanced education. As loving parents, you look beyond academics. You strive to equip your kids with the essential life skills they’ll need to grow and mature into thriving, independent adults. Thankfully, homeschooling gives you the freedom to incorporate practical life skills lessons into your homeschool program.
Basic Life Skills
Start with the basics like cooking and cleaning when your kids are young. Young children have a natural curiosity and practically leap at the chance to help Mom and Dad with day-to-day jobs around the house such as folding laundry, washing windows, and cleaning pretty much anything. Keep that momentum going by showing your kids how to do more complex tasks such as separating laundry and removing stains, loading the dishwasher, sorting recyclables, how to measure liquid and dry ingredients, and prepping and cooking their favorite simple meals and desserts.Emergency Preparedness
Knowing what to do in the event of an emergency is one of the most important life skills your kids should master. There are age-appropriate videos on YouTube you can watch with your kids that help explain what constitutes an emergency and tutorials that walk your child through the process of calling 911.What about fire safety? Gather your family together and create an emergency escape plan, draw it on a sheet of graph paper, and hang it up in a central location. Then practice, practice, practice, and stage random fire drills. Talk about fire safety around the campfire. Demonstrate how to put out cooking fires.
