Would you call this "Life Skills" or what else?

[goldberry]

I plan on doing a "course" with my daughter that will be meal cooking and prep, housekeeping, career investigation, and personal finance. I had in mind just calling this "life skills", but that sounds kind of lame. Is there a better term, or is Life Skills pretty much it?

 

Thanks for any input!

[regentrude]

Why does it need a name? Do you consider including in in her academic transcript?

 

To me, "life skills" fits it perfectly. It teach the same to my kids, and I would do so even if they attended public school. Which also means that I consider it simply a normal part of parenting and not something that merits academic credit (and hence does not really need a title.) YMMV.

[Joan in GE]

I plan on doing a "course" with my daughter that will be meal cooking and prep, housekeeping, career investigation, and personal finance. I had in mind just calling this "life skills", but that sounds kind of lame. Is there a better term, or is Life Skills pretty much it?

 

I called some of those "life skills" and taught them in 8th grade or below. (I think when I was in school it went under 'home ec' :-). Maybe you could see if 'home economics' is taught anywhere in high school? and what it covers?)

 

Personal finance - I would think could go under math or possibly something else.

 

Career investigation - not sure where that fits...

 

Have you looked at Health/Life Management? That is a catchall for higher level 'life skills' and some states require it (eg Florida) and you can include "nutrition".

 

There are some threads that talked about various aspects of Health/ Life Management...try tagging your thread (:-)) ....

 

Joan

[Lori D.]

I plan on doing a "course" with my daughter that will be meal cooking and prep, housekeeping, career investigation, and personal finance. I had in mind just calling this "life skills", but that sounds kind of lame. Is there a better term, or is Life Skills pretty much it?

 

Thanks for any input!

 

 

I'd also be sure to add to your course:

- First Aid and CPR training

- basic auto maintenance (checking the oil, how to jump start a battery, changing a tire, etc.)

- and basic home maintenance (how to use a drill, how to change out the tank parts of the toilet, parts of the faucet and where the water value is, how to find your way around Home Depot, etc.)

 

Schools sometimes call these Home Ec types of classes "Family & Consumer Sciences". However, since you're also including personal finance and career exploration, I like your "Life Skills" title. If you feel you need more, maybe break it into quarter credits with a "subheading" for each:

 

Life Skills: Personal Finance

Life Skills: Career Exploration

Life Skills: Family & Consumer Sciences

Life Skills: Driver's Ed

Life Skills: Health & Nutrition

Life Skills: First Aid

 

And while it's a good idea to make these things a "credit" to make sure you schedule them into your homeschool, unless you're really short on credits, I'd probably skip including it on the transcript to the colleges unless DD is going to go into one of these areas for a degree.

 

Good work, including these very important non-academics into your lives! Warmest regards, Lori D.

[goldberry]

Thanks for the comments! I'm not sure I will include on a her transcript or not, probably will look at it when I get to the end and see what I think. Around here the schools usually at least have a "personal finance" requirement, so I am leaning toward still including it. This would be an elective anyway.

 

Joan, I really like Health & Life Management, that sounds pretty accurate! I might even go with Life & Money Management.

 

I basically have a list of things that I wanted to cover with DD (yes, I am including first aid also, doing that this summer), and I am planning to group them altogether into this subject. Honestly, I would probably not get cooperation from DD without calling this a school subject. I have tried to get her into the kitchen for 2 years now, but when I told her we were starting this subject with cooking and meal prep, she all of a sudden started looking at cookbooks. ???? Whatever I have to do, though...