Every person on earth is imbued with personality traits, aptitudes and skills that make them unique. Some of these attributes are natural while others are learned, but they all work together to help us achieve our purpose in the world. Children spend years in school learning some of these skills and preparing themselves for a career or for entrepreneurship.
Parents and mentors want their wards to survive the challenges of life through to adulthood. Being, successful is not about academic or financial performance but is related to fulfilment, joy and happiness in life. Therefore parents must focus on equipping their children with the required life skills to be successful.
Life skills refer to the “abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to cope with the demands and challenges of everyday life.” It is a combination of emotional, social, and cognitive abilities. However, cognitive-based life skills such as decision-making, problem-solving, goal-setting and time management bring more purpose and order into the children’s daily and future life. Also, emotional intelligence is crucial to forming healthy relationships in their lives.
The goal is for the children to become well-adjusted, responsible, and positive-minded adults. This process begins at home and parents and mentors, have the responsibility to teach these essential skills to their children and model them consistently until they become part of their children’s habits and frame of mind.
This implies that children need to be proficient in varied abilities to navigate the technologically advanced and globalized world and the emerging Gig economy.
Goodwill Ofunne 
5 responses to “Life Skills Children Must Possess To Become Entrepreneurs.”
Interesting post! 🙂 The BIG question is: How do we equip students with all these great skills (“abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to cope with the demands and challenges of everyday life”), especially if they have experienced several ACEs? ( e.g. abused, neglect, violence, substance use, etc. More info here https://integrativelifecenter.com/what-are-the-10-adverse-childhood-experiences/ and here http://www.emergingwisdom.net/n-e-a-r-science-neuroscience-epigenetics-aces-and-resilience/).
My point is: as teachers we DO have a choice to use learner-centered practices – as simply as perceiving them needing help. https://notesfromnina.com/2022/12/05/using-positive-regard-to-reframe-my-perception/ Without engaging in learner-centered practices we may be doing more harm than good. Best research based practices here for K12 https://www.apa.org/ed/schools/teaching-learning/top-twenty-principles.pdf and college https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/undergrad/college-teaching-guide.pdf
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For neglected, abused, addicted and violent kids their circumstances should be diagnosed in the first instance, understood, and then evaluated for remedies. Certainly they are not lost people, they just have to be treated individually with care and understanding. They have a very strong energy pack that is useful to society.
The root causes of their adverse situations have attached personality traits and attributes that can be positively conditioned and harnessed for service and productivity.
Working on these traits will require learning centers that will teach, strong convictions and principles of life, discipline and diligence, endurance and patience, social skills like networking and friendliness and generosity. Mentors and teachers must depart from classroom techniques to non conventional approach of love and understanding to modeling of the required attributes.
For instance, Branson had severe dyslexia growing up. Herold has attention deficit disorder (ADD), as did Steve Jobs. Someone worked on their conditions and nurtured them to strength and usefulness. These conditions, along with bipolar disorder, are common in many entrepreneurs, and when approached the right way, they can be an advantage, not a handicap.
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Yes! It is all about building that resilience with students. Sometimes it is just our own perception that has to change, which is also essential for learner-centered instruction. What may seem as disengaged or disrespectful behavior in the classroom, may just be a sign of the student (child or adult, btw) being scared or overwhelmed – and as educators we need more skills to support students’ resilience.
There may not be a need for a diagnosis or further interventions if educators are able to address the skills needed for self-management, like successfully calming oneself from the fight, flight, freeze, fawn reactions. Just telling a person to calm down seldom works – or expecting that everyone knows how to do that. This is also why it is extremely important to embed SEL skills (Social-Emotional Skills) to all teaching and use that as a common classroom practice. https://casel.org/fundamentals-of-sel/what-is-the-casel-framework/
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The industrial age education culture and accelerated productivity drive have influenced the perception of classroom teaching patterns and learning culture. Industry requires workers and a supervisor to ensure productivity. The classroom provides the workers through a teacher the supervisor as the industry needs. This concept presumes that all humans possess the same aptitude and traits and react in the same way to the environment. Si, classroom curricula and teaching method have assumed this pattern over the centuries and in all cultures. Thus providing for other members of society who see and react to the world in another way has become a problem that requires CASEL’s concept and approach. Yes, we are all unique creatures and using a common yardstick to measure everyone as done in classrooms obviously is far from bringing out the best in humanity. Definitely, new knowledge of the learning process, understanding and wisdom for impacting knowledge must emerge to solve the need of the information age. The teacher-student approach has to be reviewed and evaluated on its merit and suitability for the new economy. The entire world is still putting old wine in new containers.
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Yes, very accurate insight. Alas, SEL has always been an important concept, and that was one of the things that made Finnish education famous around the world. Now, as we ARE preparing students for the unknow futures, we should not – cannot – rely on the teacher as the source of the information because it is available in our fingertips on mobile devices. The MOST important part of teaching revolves around what we DO with the information we have – therefore teachers need to provide the conceptual frameworks to organize all the info. And that is much harder than just parroting a bunch of facts. It requires providing the tools to manage that flow of information. 🙂
https://ninasnotes.fi/2022/06/18/learner-centered-instruction/ and https://ninasnotes.fi/notes/learning-strategies/
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