Life Skills Training
Everywhere I go today in Kenya people are talking about life skills training. And I ask myself, what is this life skills training? Is it a physical keep fit program? Is it a work-out program? Know what, I found out the other day that life skills training is actually a very good personal development program. Everybody needs to go through this life skills training program, well, at least if you have life in you!
What is life-skills training? It is a training process that enables one improve their ability to handle life’s challenges as they come. Well, am I right or what? Everybody needs to go through this life skills training program, life is full of daily challenges! What with the teens worrying about their developing physical features to the youth wondering about the colleges and universities to enrol in and what courses to take, to the young professional thinking about career progression strategies to the young parent wondering how to tackle the balancing act of the new born baby and the spouse’s demands. It is a life full of challenges! One may seem to ask, so how did our forefathers make it? Life to them seems like it was pretty easy ehh….., well they did not have to worry about being stalked by someone in the internet, or that as teens, their noses are too big, or that the children are watching too much television or that as parents they have to balance between their careers and brining up of the children. It seems they had very little to worry about in those days!
It is true that our modern society has created very busy lifestyles such that we hardly ever have time as parents for our children. Yet with the growth in communication and the electronic media, our children need us around them as much as possible as electronics can never replace parental or human relations. Our forefathers never faced this challenge as they believed that a child belonged to the society and it was every parent’s responsibility to correct any wayward behaviour. Parental influence in moulding moral and social values is vital in equipping young people as they are growing up with skills that enable them become emotionally well-balanced individuals in their adult life. This influence may come in three forms, from the home front, school environment and or from the social set up.
