Life Skills
Real skills for real life: money, decisions, and the everyday things nobody sits down and teaches. Each lesson is a situation to decide rather than a rule to remember. Chapter 1 of each band is free, no account needed.
Most of it has no right answer
Your child picks what they would do, sees what follows from it, and then decides whether they would do it again. Nothing is marked correct, because “save it or spend it” has no correct. The exceptions are the few genuinely unsafe choices, and those are marked plainly.
Find your child’s band
Four stages rather than fourteen year groups. The same idea comes back at each one, harder each time.
- Pre-K to Grade 2DiscoverMoney runs out. Feelings have names. You can wait one breath before you act, and there are things you always tell a grown-up.32 lessons
- Grades 3 to 5PracticePlans that add up, telling evidence from guessing, a real apology, what counts as private, and what to do when somebody is left out.32 lessons
- Grades 6 to 8DecideSpotting a scam, why AI sounds certain either way, saying no to a friend, studying in ways that work, and being home alone.32 lessons
- Grades 9 to 12PreparePay stubs and contracts, what an apartment really costs, the conversation you are dreading, interviews, and what a vote actually does.32 lessons
The eight domains
Every band covers all eight, at its own level. The same headings come back each time, and only the contents grow up.
- MoneyWhat it is for, what a choice costs, value, scams, and what borrowing really costs.
- Thinking & DecisionsStopping before you act, evidence against guessing, weak arguments, and charts built to lead you.
- Self & EmotionsNaming a feeling, what sets you off, apologizing properly, and knowing when to tell somebody.
- CommunicationListening, disagreeing without a fight, tone in messages, and the conversation you are avoiding.
- Online & AIWhat is private, who paid for what you see, AI and its confident mistakes, and pressure online.
- Everyday IndependenceGetting yourself ready, cooking, emergencies, traveling alone, and what a place costs.
- Goals & WorkFinishing things, turning a wish into a plan, studying properly, and applying for things.
- CommunitySharing a space, when something is unfair, how decisions get made, and paying in.
Figures in the money and independence lessons are invented for practice, and nothing here is financial, medical or legal advice. A few lessons touch on things that can be serious; those point at somebody to talk to rather than trying to help on their own.