Adolescent Life Skills

As a parent, you are trying to raise a child who will become a responsible, reliable adult. Instilling life skills in your child is essential in achieving this goal. Without the ability to make responsible choices and do everyday tasks (like preparing a meal), your child will never be truly independent. This page presents information and checklists to guide your child into adulthood.

PAMF Content for Parents

• Life Skills Series


• Sleepaway Camp


• Financial Fitness for Teens and Preteens

PAMF Content for Your Preteen

• Responsibility


• Sleepaway Camp

PAMF Content for Your Teen

• ABCs of Healthy Relationships


• Family LifeSkills


• Improving Your Mind


• School

Outside Resources

• Life Skills Approaches to Improving Youth's Sexual and Reproductive Health: This is a link to Advocates For Youth's publication on the importance of teenagers learning life skills to lead successful, happy and healthy lives. It provides three different international models as examples
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• Teen Life Skills Checklist: This is a short checklist from the University of Oklahoma that measures skills for independence and success.

Recommended Books

• Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young People by Stephen H. Glenn and Jane Ed.D. Nelson


• The Teen Survival Guide to Dating and Relating: Real-World Advice on Guys, Girls, Growing Up and Getting Along, by Annie Fox and Elizabeth Verdick