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Title: Life skills
Description: Children need to develop life skills at an early age since it is a life-long process. Basic, or survival life skills for young children may include: toileting, brushing teeth, dressing, feeding, washing hands, tying shoe laces, imagination, exploration, observation and following simple instructions.

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Development of Life Skills

Introduction
Children need to develop life skills at an early age since it is a life-long process
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Life skills
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avoiding or
managing criticism,
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Providing challenging tasks for the children to attempt in order for them to reason and
find ways and solutions to deal with them
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Appreciating a child’s efforts without: setting standards against others, in order to take
note of individual differences and for the child to feel appreciated and accepted
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Allowing room for interpersonal interactions so that: children can acquire skills from
others and establish interpersonal relationships
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Political values include: politeness,
accountability, integrity, respect, responsibility, impartiality, equal treatment of people
irrespective of race, colour or tribe, goal orientation and ambition
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Kenya has diverse languages and cultures,
which promote positive values
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Methods of imparting values to young children
Values are very important in any society
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Individuals, institutions or environments that
transmit values are called socialization agents
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Children acquire values through imitation, role modeling, stories,
games, play, poems, and teaching
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Adults should present themselves
as good role models so that children can acquire appropriate behaviors and values
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Traditionally, children have been socialized through story telling which taught them moral values
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Stories also teach children values like cooperation, patience and
perseverance
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This trains children on sharing, friendship,
cooperation, empathy, taking turns listening and honesty
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Teaching
Children should be taught values
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This helps the children to
develop positive behaviour
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Play
Play is spontaneous and voluntary activities in which children actively engage themselves
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Poems and riddles
Poems and riddles convey messages which are very important in transmitting values such as
cleanliness and orderliness
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It can also be
defined as a person's ability to deal effectively with the demands ' and challenges of
everyday life
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They are treasured as they are useful in individual’s lives and in
decision making
Title: Life skills
Description: Children need to develop life skills at an early age since it is a life-long process. Basic, or survival life skills for young children may include: toileting, brushing teeth, dressing, feeding, washing hands, tying shoe laces, imagination, exploration, observation and following simple instructions.