So, your child has just finished the last stage of schooling. He or she might be looking for good colleges which are mostly in the metro cities or far from their hometown. However, before they leave the house to achieve their dreams, as a parent it should be your responsibility to teach them about important life skills that you have learned over the years. These skills will allow them to adjust well in a new place surrounded by strange faces. It is very easy to get lost in the crowd, but with the right set of mind and direction, even the most lost soul can find the way!

Life Skills to Teach Your Children/Students

1. Being Present

This starts with being present not just physically but mentally as well. The generation that has grown more inclined towards scrolling on the screen than strolling in the park really needs to take care of being present in the real world. Teach them about the importance of being mentally attentive to anything they are doing. This could be their new class or working place or anything. Being present in the moment is what will lead them to understand the world better and will clear the path. 

2. Being Self-aware

Self-aware means being in sync with your thoughts, emotions, and actions. As they say, speech is silver, silence is gold. This statement doesn’t suggest that students should never speak, but what it really says is that before speaking always weigh what you are about to say. Understand the people around you. Would your words make a difference or would they just be fuel to the fire? And, if you think that it is important to speak, then you must. Otherwise, wait and give yourself some time to absorb the things. This skill requires a lot of patience, but with the right direction and guidance from the teachers and parents, students can become the master of their own sea.

3. Be Communicable

Now, you might think that this point is contradicting the above point. Just a few seconds back we were talking about speaking less, now here we are asking students to become more communicable. See, both the points are different in their sense. Here, communicable means that you move out of your comfort zone and make meaningful relationships with your classmates or peers. Human connection is one thing without which our existence makes no sense at all. We crave meaningful connections. Hence, it is important to make new connections (only if they seem right to you) when you move to a new city.