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Life Skills You Can Help Your Child Practice This Summer!

Child loading laundry into a washing machine with adult's help.

There are so many important life skills that parents can help their children learn during the summer months.

Many of these skills are things that students might not be directly exposed to in a traditional classroom setting.

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Skills like paying for purchases, finding the right clothing size, feeding pets, and helping with laundry are just a few of the many topics students will need to master to lead more independent lives.

The next few graphics show some important life skills you can work on with your child this summer in the domains of home, stores, and leisure.

Print out the graphics and hang them on the refrigerator as a reminder of the skills you’d like to work on this summer. 

 

Practice is the best of all instructors. – Publilius Syrus

Infographic detailing life skills for home during the summer, including warming up food, reading expiration dates, taking out the garbage, feeding a pet, making lunch, washing laundry, setting alarms, putting away groceries, and yard work.

 

Infographic listing life skills for stores during the summer, including paying for items, using an elevator, and finding the right aisle.

 

Infographic titled "Life Skills for Leisure During the Summer" with examples like journaling, trying new recipes, and exercise.

 

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Lyla – Owner of Life Skills Creations

“I am a life skills teacher specializing in providing in functional and age-appropriate material students can use in the real world.”

Visit: Lifeskillscreations.com [1]

 

FREE DOWNLOADS: Life Skills Activity Pack [2]

 

Collage of printable worksheets on job skills, amusement park costs, grocery shopping, and telling time. [2]

 

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This post originally appeared on our May/June 2023 Magazine [22]

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