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16 Life Skills to teach your children or grandchildren.

  16 Life Skills to teach your children or grandchildren. The Masonic motto is Making Good Men Better.   Sometimes that also involves being a better father or grandfather and making your kids future better also. These are a list of 16 life skills ideas from ‘Advanced Life Skills’ that I received on facebook. I added the information on each one. How to say no without feeling guilty Children should learn that saying “no” is not an act of selfishness when it protects their safety, values, time, or well-being. A respectful refusal can be firm without being unkind. Teaching them to set healthy boundaries helps them develop confidence and self-respect, while also helping them avoid being pressured into poor decisions simply to please others. How to recognize when someone is manipulating you Young people should be taught to pay attention to patterns of guilt, pressure, fear, or dishonesty. Manipulative people often try to control emotions rather than speak honestly and re...