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.
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.
Discover · Pre-K to Grade 2
32 lessonsMoney runs out. Feelings have names. You can wait one breath before you act, and there are things you always tell a grown-up.
Practice · Grades 3 to 5
32 lessonsPlans that add up, telling evidence from guessing, a real apology, what counts as private, and what to do when somebody is left out.
Decide · Grades 6 to 8
32 lessonsSpotting a scam, why AI sounds certain either way, saying no to a friend, studying in ways that work, and being home alone.
Prepare · Grades 9 to 12
32 lessonsPayslips and contracts, what a flat really costs, the conversation you are dreading, interviews, and what a vote actually does.
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.
Money
What it is for, what a choice costs, value, scams, and what borrowing really costs.
Thinking & Decisions
Stopping before you act, evidence against guessing, weak arguments, and charts built to lead you.
Self & Emotions
Naming a feeling, what sets you off, apologising properly, and knowing when to tell somebody.
Communication
Listening, disagreeing without a fight, tone in messages, and the conversation you are avoiding.
Online & AI
What is private, who paid for what you see, AI and its confident mistakes, and pressure online.
Everyday Independence
Getting yourself ready, cooking, emergencies, travelling alone, and what a place costs.
Goals & Work
Finishing things, turning a wish into a plan, studying properly, and applying for things.
Community
Sharing a space, when something is unfair, how decisions get made, and paying in.
Life Skills is free in full — every lesson, no account needed. 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.