10 Life Skills to Teach Your Child by Age 10
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Preparing a Simple Meal (View Highlight)
Using the Web Wisely. (View Highlight)
• Choose a password that’s hard to guess and always keep it private, except from Mami or Papi. • Chat only with people you know in real life, and don’t give out personal info such as your birthday, home address, or phone number. • Be kind. Remember that anything you send or say virtually is there forever. • Get permission or ask for help before you download something or click a pop-up. • Most important, let your kid know they can come to you with any issue. “This is a conversation you will have again and again as your children get older,” says Ramos Campbell. (View Highlight)
Preparing a Simple Meal (View Highlight)
Doing the Laundry (View Highlight)
Using the Web Wisely (View Highlight)
Planting a Seedling (View Highlight)
• Choose a password that’s hard to guess and always keep it private, except from Mami or Papi. • Chat only with people you know in real life, and don’t give out personal info such as your birthday, home address, or phone number. • Be kind. Remember that anything you send or say virtually is there forever. • Get permission or ask for help before you download something or click a pop-up. • Most important, let your kid know they can come to you with any issue. “This is a conversation you will have again and again as your children get older,” says Ramos Campbell. (View Highlight)
• Prepare a spot to plant a seedling. If possible, add about two inches of organic compost to the top of the soil. Mix it in, break up any dirt clods, and water the soil until it’s about as moist as a wrung-out sponge. • Ask your child to dig a hole that’s slightly larger than the container the plant is in. • Once you remove the plant from the pot and place it in the hole, have your kid delicately push soil around it and pat it down. • Let your child water it with a gentle stream from a watering can with a perforated nozzle. • By age six or seven, kids can remove a seedling on their own. Have your child split two fingers apart so the stem of the plant goes between them. Then turn the potted seedling upside down and squeeze the outside of the container until the plant comes out. If the roots are wound tightly, your kid should loosen them a few at a time before planting. (View Highlight)
Doing the Laundry (View Highlight)
Writing a Letter (View Highlight)
Planting a Seedling (View Highlight)
- Prepare a spot to plant a seedling. If possible, add about two inches of organic compost to the top of the soil. Mix it in, break up any dirt clods, and water the soil until it’s about as moist as a wrung-out sponge. 2. Ask your child to dig a hole that’s slightly larger than the container the plant is in. 3. Once you remove the plant from the pot and place it in the hole, have your kid delicately push soil around it and pat it down. 4. Let your child water it with a gentle stream from a watering can with a perforated nozzle. 5. By age six or seven, kids can remove a seedling on their own. Have your child split two fingers apart so the stem of the plant goes between them. Then turn the potted seedling upside down and squeeze the outside of the container until the plant comes out. If the roots are wound tightly, your kid should loosen them a few at a time before planting. (View Highlight)
Helping Someone Who’s Choking (View Highlight)
• Stand behind the person who is choking and wrap your hands around them. • Make a clenched fist with one hand, and place the thumb side just above their belly button but below their rib cage. • Grasp your fist with your other hand and thrust it into their abdomen with quick inward and upward thrusts. Repeat until the object pops out. (View Highlight)
Writing a Letter (View Highlight)
Treating a Wound (View Highlight)
Helping Someone Who’s Choking (View Highlight)
• If the cut or scrape is bleeding, press firmly on the area with a clean cloth until it stops. • Hold the cut under running water, or dab it gently with a wet paper towel. • Apply antibiotic ointment with a cotton swab. • Cover with an adhesive bandage or gauze and tape. (View Highlight)
Navigating (View Highlight)
To teach the Heimlich maneuver, tell your kids that if someone can’t breathe, cough, or speak, they should first ask, “Are you choking?” If the person nods yes and there’s no adult around, they should follow these steps: 1. Stand behind the person who is choking and wrap your hands around them. 2. Make a clenched fist with one hand, and place the thumb side just above their belly button but below their rib cage. 3. Grasp your fist with your other hand and thrust it into their abdomen with quick inward and upward thrusts. Repeat until the object pops out (View Highlight)
Comparison Shopping (View Highlight)
• Explain as you go. Mention prices out loud and talk about choices with your child: “I’m getting gas at the other station because it costs 10 cents less per gallon there.” Share with them the things you’d like to have (say, the latest sneakers or tech) but don’t buy because they’re not in your budget. • Let your child pay sometimes. Give your kid an allowance, and then designate certain items that they’re responsible for purchasing, such as new toys or video games. That gives your child a chance to manage their own money and also experience the satisfaction of saving for something that they want and then buying it. • Play the grocery game. When supermarket shopping, in-store or online, challenge your kid to find the least expensive brand of cereal. (View Highlight)
Treating a Wound (View Highlight)
• If the cut or scrape is bleeding, press firmly on the area with a clean cloth until it stops. • Hold the cut under running water, or dab it gently with a wet paper towel. • Apply antibiotic ointment with a cotton swab. • Cover with an adhesive bandage or gauze and tape. (View Highlight)
Wrapping a Gift (View Highlight)
Navigating (View Highlight)
Comparison Shopping (View Highlight)
Learning to be a smart consumer takes practice. Try this three-step approach: • Explain as you go. Mention prices out loud and talk about choices with your child: “I’m getting gas at the other station because it costs 10 cents less per gallon there.” Share with them the things you’d like to have (say, the latest sneakers or tech) but don’t buy because they’re not in your budget. • Let your child pay sometimes. Give your kid an allowance, and then designate certain items that they’re responsible for purchasing, such as new toys or video games. That gives your child a chance to manage their own money and also experience the satisfaction of saving for something that they want and then buying it. • Play the grocery game. When supermarket shopping, in-store or online, challenge your kid to find the least expensive brand of cereal. (View Highlight)
Wrapping a Gift (View Highlight)
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