I saw this image circulating around facebook lately. For teens, this is the perfect post. Now with me having young children, I had to shake my head at this. However wonderful ideas these are, it’s very hard to teach these things to my three-year-old. So I started to think….what are some things I could do to teach my young children some life skills? What are some age-appropriate lessons that young school-aged kids can’t learn at school? Well, here is what I came up with.
Babies
- How to feed themselves with utensils (6 months +)
- How to walk
- How to build a tower with blocks
- How to play patty-cake, miss mary mack
- Teach to hum nursery rhymes
- Teach how to use toys (shake the rattle, etc)
Toddlers
- How to wipe up spîlls
- How to wash their hands
- How to brush their teeth
- Potty training
- How to put puzzels together
- Teach about consent
- Teach small patterns (blue, yellow, blue, yellow)
- Teach nursery rhymes
Preschoolers
- How to play jump-rope
- Learn their address
- Learn their phone number
- Learn about the seasons
- Teach emergency strategy (such as hands and knees during a fire)
- Teach stop, drop and roll
- Teach to set the table
- Teach to wipe tables or counters
- Teach to put dirty clothes in the hamper
- Teach to wash themselves
School-aged kids
- Learn which country they’re in
- Learn which province or state they’re in
- Learn which city they’re in
- Teach the food groups
- Teach the food pyramid
- Teach to knit
- Teach to crochet
- Teach about patterns
- Teach light math (addition and subtraction)
- Teach to load dishwasher
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