What’s the Most Important Life Skill Your Child Should Have?
Posted: April 09, 2022
What’s the most important life skill your child should have?
The one that they don’t have.
If I were to tell you that confidence was the most important life skill to have, but your child is extremely self-confident the advice would go right by you. Maybe that super confident kid needs a lot of patience. Then patience would be the most important life skill. Maybe it’s respect and courtesy.
Not all solutions fit everyone. Our children are just a bit more complex than that.
I have seen confident children with no idea of what respect is. I have seen respectful children with no ability to focus. I have seen focused children who have no discipline…
Building a child’s character takes a little bit of this and a little bit of that, all in the right concentration. If you get it just right, you have a great foundation for your child’s success and future.
That is why at the Academy we focus on one life skill a month in detail while reinforcing others during class. One month we might be working on discipline. Teaching the students what it is, how to do it, and why it’s important. Everything we do will seem to circle around discipline. From the drills to the life skills worksheet. Even our corrections.
However, you will also notice that we are reinforcing the life skill we did in the previous month, for example, teamwork. We also require them to focus, be respectful and develop their skill which takes discipline.
Nothing is left to chance. Life skills are a major part of our curriculum. We have a physical curriculum made up of martial arts techniques and we have a mental curriculum made up of life skills that build the child from the inside out.
When planning your child’s activities this summer think about which life skills they don’t have and try to incorporate that into the activity.
If you want your child to be fitter and physically active, enrolling them in coding school or video gaming camp might be fun but it doesn’t help with the trait they may be lacking. If they had a video gaming camp where your child was one of the characters and you had to do everything the video character did, well that would be a win-win.
