Life Skills for Kids Equipping Your Child for

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.

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>

Preface

9

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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

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About the Author

333

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Life Skills for Kids Equipping Your Child for the Real World

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