Life Skills Parents Should Teach Their Kids

1. How to sell.

To many people, the word “selling” implies manipulating, pressuring, cajoling…all the used-car salesman stereotypes.

How to ask for help.

Steve Jobs said, “Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates, sometimes, the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

How to manage time.

There’s a huge biggest difference between being efficient and being effective. (Just ask Stephen Covey.)

How to use the only work-life balance formula that works.

Work-life balance: Everyone talks about it. And everyone struggles to achieve it.

How to be emotionally intelligent.

As my Inc. colleague Justin Bariso has shown in a series of excellent articles, higher emotional intelligence (also referred to as EI or EQ) can lead to better performance, better pay, and greater overall success, and can even help prevent you from being manipulated.

How to see pressure as a privilege.

Approximately 75 percent of Americans say they regularly experience physiological and psychological symptoms caused by stress. Research shows that Generation Z in particular is much less able to manage and deal with stress: feelings of fear, trepidation, and hesitance keep them from performing as well as they could.

How to not just be smart…but also wise.

As Jeff Bezos says, “The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking.”

https://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/7-life-skills-parents-should-teach-their-kids-that-will-pay-off-forever-no-matter-what-path-they-choose-to-take.html