Seven+Essential+Life+Skills

The seven skills are:
 * 1) **Focus and Self Control** – children need this skill in order to achieve their goals especially in a world that is filled with distractions and information overload.
 * 2) **Perspective Taking** – children who can figure out what others feel and think are less likely to get involved in conflicts.
 * 3) **Communicating** – children need to be able to determine what they want to communicate and how. This is the skill teachers and employers feel is most lacking today.
 * 4) **Making Connections** – children who can make unusual connections are more creative and can go beyond knowing information to using information well.
 * 5) **Critical Thinking** – children need to be able to search for reliable knowledge to guide their beliefs, decisions, and actions.
 * 6) **Taking on Challenges** – children who can take on challenges instead of avoiding or simply coping with them will do better in school and in life.
 * 7) **Self-Directed Engaged Learning** – lifelong learners can change as the world changes in order to reach their full potential.