App or videos for teaching Life Skills to My 6th Grade Daughter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Personal finance

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/million-bazillion/

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/financially-inclined/

NP seconding this recommendation. My 6th grader is really enjoying Million Bazillion and was shocked to hear that I have my own grown up version that I listen to (Marketplace) 🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Scouts does pretty much all of those and more. 6th grade is a good time to join up. Lots of girl troops now in Scouts, and she can move on to other things once she hits high school (if she wants). It’s a very good middle school age program.

I think PP is referring to Boy Scouts or whatever its name is this week, but there's also girl scouts, camp fire girls, 4H, and other programs that teach similar life skills. Heck, even groups like Junior Achievement are good for this.

[Anonymous]

Newtodc is a 🤡

[Anonymous]

Executive functioning class? But then you and your spouse have to monitor and enforce the new habits and skills.

[Anonymous]

Just include her when you practice those life skills. Lead by example. You be her teacher. It will come over time.

[Anonymous]

When I was that age, I asked to become a grocery shopping helper for my mom.

I clipped coupons from the Sunday paper (for things we usually bought) and took charge of making sure they got redeemed.

This could be extended to maintaining shopping lists and reading sale flyers.

[Anonymous]

Girl Scouts covers every single one of those topics

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Girl Scouts covers every single one of those topics

Yeah, this is true. My daughter is a HS senior this year, been a GS since Daisies, and she’s done badges on all of these over the years. Plus things like engineering and problem-solving, travel and cultural exploration, environmental topics, and mental and emotional wellbeing.

But yeah, most of these things are best taught by parents, a little at a time, over many years. The badge work mostly helped to either introduce something we could build on at home, or reinforce what we’d been teaching her. It often provided a useful backup—confirmation that her parents weren’t just being weird about this stuff, other people think it’s important, too.

[Anonymous]

Not sure where you live, but MCPS does have units on personal finance and media literacy in middle school.

Neither one is going to be nearly enough, though. You have to talk about these things at home, in the context of your child and their own life. Canned content will never be good enough.