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Aug 16, 2024 · Use this list of life skills to help teens feel confident, resilient, successful, and ready for what comes next. From shopping for groceries to coping with failure, give teens a head start in life with these skills.
- Communication Skills. We strongly believe that communication is at the core of developing nearly all DLS areas. Without a solid base of language and a functional communication system, your learner is likely to continue to struggle with being independent with many of the other complex skills.
- Executive Functioning Skills – Tasks. As your teen develops more independence, understanding the role of executive functioning becomes more important. How we manage homework, chores, and work gets more difficult as your teen becomes more independent.
- Executive Functioning Skills – Behaviors. Not all executive functioning skills involve tasks. For example, sometimes executive functioning requires our teens to demonstrate good emotional control, refrain from impulsive behavior, and pay attention for long periods.
- Primary Daily Living Skills – Health, Safety & Household. One of the areas we think of most often for DLS is the primary skills related to health, safety, and running a household.
- How to Personal Groom and Be Clean. While it doesn’t seem glamorous, personal grooming is one of the foundational life skills. Cleanliness and hygiene are life skills essential to our social interactions.
- How to Perform First Aid. Knowing basic first aid skills can help your teen when there’s an accident or injury. It’s like having superhero life skills to help people in trouble.
- How to Have Impeccable Social Skills and Manners. Grace and courtesy aren’t limited to Montessori kindergarten. Knowing how to interact with others is one of the most important life skills.
- How to Stay Organized. Teach teenagers better time management. Keep on top of homework assignments, chores, and extracurricular activities. Being ahead reduces stress.
- Money Management and Budgeting Skills. One of the most essential life skills we can teach our teens is how to budget and manage money. This basic knowledge will equip teens to stay out of debt, handle credit cards, save for big purchases and potentially live a life of financial freedom.
- Study Skills. One of the biggest barriers to academic success for teens is not having good study skills. Understanding the best way to study in order to learn is essential for success in high school, future success in college, and professional success later in life.
- Personal Grooming and Hygiene. It goes without saying that maintaining good personal grooming and hygiene is essential not only for staying healthy but also to make oneself presentable.
- Chores and Household Skills. Knowing how to do basic chores and maintain a household are important skills so that your child doesn’t end up living in a rat’s nest.
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These are life skills and strategies, and people of all ages can find these useful – we would have loved if this could have been known to us when we were teenagers! What’s involved? We will send you a short video each week, and a worksheet to have alongside the presentation.
