Life skills are the ability to adapt and behave positively, enabling individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life, per WHO. These skills play a crucial role in ...

As adults, we often gripe about the things we know now that we wish we had known early on in life. Things like properly balancing a checkbook or being a smart shopper aren't taught in school — but ...

For parents, the start of school each fall is a little like New Year’s Day: We resolve that this year things will be different with our kids. We have goals for them (less procrastinating and better ...

Lots of La Jolla’s recent high school grads will be starting college soon. I remember this era well and scrambling to educate my sons on some of the basic life skills that I was negligent in teaching ...

A 2nd-grade teacher with 14 years of experience under her belt turned to Reddit to describe how, in recent years, she's noticed a sharp decline in independence among her students. In fact, she said ...

Teachers across the country are reporting that their young students have fallen dramatically behind on basic life skills, such as tying their shoes, following school shutdowns during the pandemic.

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, ...

As our society continues to shift and evolve, it’s unsurprising that our collective values change as well. But even though each generation grows up with their own specific values, priorities and ...

In a normal year, up to half of Christine Jarboe's first-graders start school knowing how to tie their shoelaces. But thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, school hasn't been normal for more than two ...

An elementary school teacher shared a video wherein she could be seen listing 10 basic skills that 3rd graders are struggling ...

This grant cycle, the local HDR Foundation Grant of $15,170 was awarded to Beyond BASIC Life Skills to fund a kitchen renovation at its Summerville location on North Gum Street. This kitchen ...