Importance Of Life Skills

Life skills help people to make informed decisions, communicate effectively and develop coping and self-management skills that may help an individual to lead a healthy and productive life.

These skills are  taught to adolescents, as they can help them successfully transition “from childhood to adulthood by healthy development of social and emotional skills.”

Life skills based education:

1. Help in the development of social competence and problem solving skills, which in turn help adolescents to form their own identity.

2. Promote positive social norms that have an impact the adolescent’s health services, schools, and family.

3. Help adolescents to differentiate between hearing and listening, thus ensuring less development misconceptions or miscommunications regarding issues such as drugs, alcoholism, etc.

4. Promote the development of positive self-esteem and anger control