Teaching Your Teen Necessary Life Skills - Episode 8 Teen Clinic Podcast

Parents At Work Podcast

Are there skills we could and should be sharing with our teens that would ensure they felt more equipped to deal with what was in front of them? In this episode youth advocate, teen expert and mother of three teenagers – Lucy Dahill – looks at some of the key skills to share with your teen in order to help them become independent young adults who have the ability to handle whatever life throws at them. Life skills, also termed as psycho-social competence, is the ability to show adaptive and positive behaviour that enable humans to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life. Lucy discusses how teaching your teens these life skills involves first embedding them in yourself and the way that you parent. She also states that life skills are important so that your teen can be responsible and accountable, they know who they are, they know what love is and that they are loved, they know truth and joy, they know how to be engaged in life, how to be committed to their job, how to care, and most of all how to be themselves in every situation.