Life and Skills Development
Rewarding and Encouraging Skills and Knowledge that are beyond what most kids can do.
Parents or any relative / mentor pays $ or points toward some reward
(make up your own reward score card)
Extra reward for a verbal or written sharing on what was learned and the lessons from what was done.
From Dave Savage 404 323-8686 dave@davesavage.com www.davesavage.com
Here are some ideas
$20 for touch typing 25 words a minute with a max.of ? mistakes
$50 for touch typing 50 words a minute with max.? mistakes
$25 for juggling 3 balls for 15 seconds
another $25 for juggling 4 balls 15 seconds.
$5 for every self development recording you listen to and tell me what you learned.
$2 for listening to selected music (exposure to hundreds of types of music)
(reward for identifying selected music, composer, time period it was composed)
$2 watch selected classic movies
$3 watch selected informational videos
25 cents each know the definition of the words in Yiddish list (or language of your heritage) and use them in a sentence.
$1 to learn and use each rope knot, and $1 to demonstrate a knot a week after learning it. (truckers knot is always helpful)
$1 to learn how to flip food in a sautè pan like a chef
$1 to learn each style of neck tie knot.
$ to be able to say hello, goodbye, thank you, count to ten etc in different languages.
$ to know the location of major cities and other geography in the US and the world.
$1 for each unsolicited comment by people to your parents complementing you for manners, behavior, attitude
fixing bicycle flat tire
make a bed with hospital corners
how to properly polish a pair of shoes
grow a vegetable from seed that I can eat when ripe
to be able to iron a shirt and pants
demonstrate how to floss teeth
identify tools and perhaps show how to use them (see tool and maintenance catalogs on-line to study Graningers.com, McMaster Carr, Harbor Freight.
sew on a button or use a sewing machine
identify the bones of your body
pick a company on the stock exchange and be able to follow it and quote approximate price on request
hard boil an egg so that the shell comes off easily
make fluffy rice
seeing selected plays and sharing what was learned or enjoyed about it
interviewing adults for career advice and experience
identifying tools and supplies at the hardware store – know what they are used for.
sharpen a kitchen knife or scissors
choosing appropriate cleaning products (hot water, mineral spirits, paint thinner, denatured alcohol, Goop, WD40, etc)
Memorizing greetings, goodbye and thank you in other languages
names of colors (is it red, plumb, burgundy, purple?)
being able to guestimate as well as you (speed, weight, distance, angle, age, length, volume, height, force)
You can make it the “Detective Game” You’ve just seen a crime or accident and the detective asks about what
you saw. These are difficult for adults and the game can be about who is closest. This is a free and fun activity
when traveling and just hanging around.
learning the technical relationship titles of relatives. (You are my second cousin twice removed even though I call you uncle)
Life skills
learning how to use a sewing machine and sewing on a button or mending a hem
backing up with a trailer
identifying trees, shrubs - plants, flowers
learning how to cook/prepare various things
fancy cloth napkin folding
gift wrapping
Learning-reading the Roman numerals at the end of movies to know when they came out
Watch Youtube videos about turning everyday items/ / trash, into handy items - search DIY upscale and Life hacks
Things to do
wash and wax a car $10
gardening/ landscaping
cleaning and polishing silver tableware and shoes
memorizing and reciting famous quotes, stanzas and poems
reading selected books: extra reward for a discussion of the ideas and messages of the book as it is being read
Many of the classics are free on the internet
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Little Prince
Classics like Horatio Alger
Reading important things aloud and with feeling (theatrical and presentation reading style)
Gettysburg address
Declaration of independence
??..
Measure your body parts and then estimate the size of things.
Finger tips to elbow is almost a foot, thumb and pinky spread apart is 6” , arms stretched out is ?, wrist to finger tips is?
Ground to the bottom of your knee cap is ?
Rewarding and Encouraging Skills and Knowledge that are beyond what most kids can do.
Parents or any relative / mentor pays $ or points toward some reward
(make up your own reward score card)
Extra reward for a verbal or written sharing on what was learned and the lessons from what was done.
From Dave Savage 404 323-8686 dave@davesavage.com www.davesavage.com
Here are some ideas
$20 for touch typing 25 words a minute with a max.of ? mistakes
$50 for touch typing 50 words a minute with max.? mistakes
$25 for juggling 3 balls for 15 seconds
another $25 for juggling 4 balls 15 seconds.
$5 for every self development recording you listen to and tell me what you learned.
$2 for listening to selected music (exposure to hundreds of types of music)
(reward for identifying selected music, composer, time period it was composed)
$2 watch selected classic movies
$3 watch selected informational videos
25 cents each know the definition of the words in Yiddish list (or language of your heritage) and use them in a sentence.
$1 to learn and use each rope knot, and $1 to demonstrate a knot a week after learning it. (truckers knot is always helpful)
$1 to learn how to flip food in a sautè pan like a chef
$1 to learn each style of neck tie knot.
$ to be able to say hello, goodbye, thank you, count to ten etc in different languages.
$ to know the location of major cities and other geography in the US and the world.
$1 for each unsolicited comment by people to your parents complementing you for manners, behavior, attitude
fixing bicycle flat tire
make a bed with hospital corners
how to properly polish a pair of shoes
grow a vegetable from seed that I can eat when ripe
to be able to iron a shirt and pants
demonstrate how to floss teeth
identify tools and perhaps show how to use them (see tool and maintenance catalogs on-line to study Graningers.com, McMaster Carr, Harbor Freight.
sew on a button or use a sewing machine
identify the bones of your body
pick a company on the stock exchange and be able to follow it and quote approximate price on request
hard boil an egg so that the shell comes off easily
make fluffy rice
seeing selected plays and sharing what was learned or enjoyed about it
interviewing adults for career advice and experience
identifying tools and supplies at the hardware store – know what they are used for.
sharpen a kitchen knife or scissors
choosing appropriate cleaning products (hot water, mineral spirits, paint thinner, denatured alcohol, Goop, WD40, etc)
Memorizing greetings, goodbye and thank you in other languages
names of colors (is it red, plumb, burgundy, purple?)
being able to guestimate as well as you (speed, weight, distance, angle, age, length, volume, height, force)
You can make it the “Detective Game” You’ve just seen a crime or accident and the detective asks about what
you saw. These are difficult for adults and the game can be about who is closest. This is a free and fun activity
when traveling and just hanging around.
learning the technical relationship titles of relatives. (You are my second cousin twice removed even though I call you uncle)
Life skills
learning how to use a sewing machine and sewing on a button or mending a hem
backing up with a trailer
identifying trees, shrubs - plants, flowers
learning how to cook/prepare various things
fancy cloth napkin folding
gift wrapping
Learning-reading the Roman numerals at the end of movies to know when they came out
Watch Youtube videos about turning everyday items/ / trash, into handy items - search DIY upscale and Life hacks
Things to do
wash and wax a car $10
gardening/ landscaping
cleaning and polishing silver tableware and shoes
memorizing and reciting famous quotes, stanzas and poems
reading selected books: extra reward for a discussion of the ideas and messages of the book as it is being read
Many of the classics are free on the internet
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
The Little Prince
Classics like Horatio Alger
Reading important things aloud and with feeling (theatrical and presentation reading style)
Gettysburg address
Declaration of independence
??..
Measure your body parts and then estimate the size of things.
Finger tips to elbow is almost a foot, thumb and pinky spread apart is 6” , arms stretched out is ?, wrist to finger tips is?
Ground to the bottom of your knee cap is ?