Life Expertise for Youngsters: Methods to Cook dinner, Clear, Make Mates, Deal with Emergencies, Set Objectives, Make Good Selections, and The whole lot in Between

Navigating life by learning skills early on!
Author Karen Harris offers an excellent ‘life guide’ for kids – an intelligent, resourceful, enlightened and easily accessible list of attributes worthy of attention to pre-teenagers. As Karen states in the Intro, ‘There are two things hat most kids and pre-teens wish they had: a driver’s license and being old enough to do what they want so fewer people (parents included) can boss them around…Life skills prepare you for, well, the rest of your life. They’re lessons my parents taught me, such as how to handle conflict, manage time, and prioritize responsibilities. There are also some practical day to day lessons, like how to run a dishwasher, do your laundry, and call 911 in case of an emergency.’In that user-friendly fashion, the topics discussed include understanding yourself, learning from failure, making good decisions, staying positive, goal setting, understanding good communication, handling emergencies, chores and practicing independence, earning and saving money, operating appliances, using a compass and reading a map, how to dress appropriately, banish negative thinking, dealing with bullies, creating stem challenges and much more. Truly, these are important things to know – a valuable primer for kids (of all ages..!!!). Recommended

Pretty good book
I ordered this book for my son and nephew. It teaches, educates, provides morals and values based on the author’s life experiences, which I have those same morals and values as well. We really enjoyed reading about bullying, effective communication, and making good decisions/choices. There are many life lessons that any child can read in this book. Good one!

My daughter likes it
My daughter finds it funny and informative. My daughter and I have an open, honest relationship but anything that can increase her self awareness and knowledge of the world is good for us. We then discuss any topics she wants to further. Good easy read.

Good content, Terrible delivery
My son is 11 and reads at a 3rd grade level.I am an avid reader of non-fiction books and will tell you this book was published prematurely. I typically shy away from leaving bad reviews but I wish I had paid better attention to the objective reviews that pertained to this book; it wasn’t worth the money.It seems this book was not properly edited. I’m not as put out by the misspellings as I am with the disorganization. As an example, you’ll read things like ‘ 2 points on this topic ‘ and then 3 ambiguous points will follow. It is up to the reader to synthesize the points all on their own which is a special skill most adult readers do not possess let alone their children.Since the data is not well organized, my son lost steam over reading it in the middle of chapter 5… I don’t blame him cause I was witness to it’s incessant mis-delivery. It double backs on things it has already said elsewhere but in a distracting way, not a succinct way.I would say this book is not“neurodivergent-friendly”.I can’t imagine it is neurotypical-friendly either but that’s just a guess.Either way, this book should be professionally edited and republished for youth consumption in order to be worth any amount of money.

I buy some different series of books from this publisher. With the colourful pictures make each topic of paragraph very easy understand.My kids love them so much, and so fun to read.

That’s really to basic!

The book contains some important life skills for skills