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I personally would not give credit, since I prefer to give credit for academics only - what you describe, I would consider life skills.

YMMV.

 

ETA: when I hear the word "management course", I think of business and economics, not of personal organization. For an actual management course in the business sense, I would give credit.

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My current plan is to do a .5 credit in personal finance. I'm also toying with the idea of having another .5 -1 credit called Like Skills, which would combine driver's ed, health topics (don't really want to do a separate health credit), career goals & planning, and household management. Right now I'm just keeping track of hours and will decide down the road.

 

The deciding factor may be whether I require any output from these subjects and if we really need the credit. Obviously driver's ed would mean getting his license, however, if I just provide information and discussion on the other stuff, I may leave it off the transcript.

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What you listed, sounds a lot like what someone in highschool would do either working with a guidance counselor or advisor toward college applications. I guess I would see it like I see test prep, something they do but don't do as a credit course.

 

That said, there is a trend on college campuses and some high schools of doing a sort of Freshman Seminar. I have seen these include everything from time managment skills to composition skills to shared reading/discussion of books to general orientation doings (tours of campus facilities, advisor meetings on specific programs...). Perhaps, something could be constructed on this general idea. Maybe google freshman seminar.

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I don't see why not. You could call it "Life Management." There is a book called Life Management for Homeschool Teens that has some very good projects and recommended reading surrounding the areas you mentioned.

 

Along the lines you're talking about, I am doing a 1/2 credit on career exploration that I devised right now. I am also planning on doing a personal finance course, but I haven't gone far enough into it to determine if it would be 1/2 or 1 credit. It really is going to depend on how deeply I decide to delve into investing & banking, I think.

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