Summary of beneficial skills

In this new chapter, we will examine the importance of life skills and how they can benefit our children's emotional, cognitive and social development.

These skills provide us with the tools we need to face everyday challenges. By developing them, we can effectively guide and support our children's educational process. This involves teaching them to manage their emotions, to think critically and to establish healthy relationships.

Skills.

Life skills are fundamental for the integral development of the personality and for achieving educational goals. As caregivers, we must guide our children in the development of:

• Emotional skills.

• Social skills.

• Cognitive skills.

Emotional skills.

Emotional skills are fundamental to maintaining self-control and pursuing self-awareness. By understanding our reactions, we can anticipate and modify our emotional responses.

This is essential to both social and cognitive skill development and should be considered in any parenting skill.

Social skills.

Social skills include the ability to:

• Make friends and create strong bonds.

• Initiate, maintain, and end conversations in constructive and helpful ways.

• Engage in conversation and involve others in a reciprocal way.

• Manage conflict, being able to listen actively and be empathetic to the needs of others.

• Taking responsibility for our actions and behaviors.

• Ask questions and express opinions effectively.

• Present others by highlighting their strengths and positive characteristics in an appropriate manner.

• Providing motivation to those who need it.

Cognitive skills.

To understand the world around us, it is important to develop cognitive skills. This is achieved by improving our cognitive functions:

• Memory: allows us to retain short- and long-term information.

• Attention: allows us to focus on one aspect of reality.

• Language: allows us to express ourselves correctly and adapt our vocabulary to different situations.

• Thinking: allows us to develop ideas and reason about ourselves, others and the environment.

• Personal orientation: allows us to understand who we are and integrate information into our identity.

• Gnosias: allow us to recognize previously learned information through different senses.

Executive functions.

Executive functions are an important aspect of cognitive skills and allow us to interact with reality to achieve goals and objectives. They include:

• Cognitive flexibility: allows us to adapt and change ideas or activities.

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