IMPORTANCE OF CORE LIFE SKILLS
Life skills are abilities for the adaption and positively applying in behaviour that enable humans to deal judiciously and effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life. It is the psychosocial competency within individuals. They are a set of human skills acquired via teaching or direct experience that are used to handle problems and questions commonly encountered in daily human life. The subject varies greatly depending on social norms and community expectations but skills that functions for well-being of society and aid individuals to develop into active and productive members of their communities are considered as life skills. There are many such skills, but core life skills include the ability to: The Ten core Life Skills as laid down by World Health Organization are: 1. Self-awareness : Self-awareness includes recognition of ‘self’, our character, our strengths and weaknesses, desires and dislikes. Developing self-awareness can help us to recognize when we a...