Life Skills

Michigan 4-H Youth Development is committed to providing children aged 5 to 19 with opportunities through 4-H that will:

• Give them skills they can use for a lifetime.
• Help them learn in ways that are appropriate for their developmental stage.
• Help them learn to make friends and work as a team.
• Allow them to experience the value of diversity.
• Offer an emotionally and physically safe learning environment for their educational development.
• Help them grow as citizens through leadership development and service to their communities.

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• Judges are teachers

  May 15, 2013 | Katie VanderKolk | People who serve as 4-H judges are content experts, but also teachers to youth.

• Career planning from a résumé – building a work history

  May 15, 2013 | Frank Cox | MSU Extension suggests that as part of the career planning process; students can begin building their work history in high school.

• Science ideas for young children: Where did the water go? Part 8

  May 6, 2013 | Darren Bagley | Teach young children about nature & science by following water as it moves through the water cycle. You can learn how your actions help or hurt our environment.

• Character: A life skill to be learned

  April 21, 2013 | Michelle Neff | Youth develop character as they grow in life. As a human being, we all have choices to make which affect ourselves and others around us. Character is defined as ethics in action. Knowing the good and doing the good.

• Career planning from a résumé: Starting with the objective

  April 18, 2013 | Frank Cox | With various ways to plan for careers, students can start with a résumé.

• In a diverse community, can youth development be based on values?

  April 17, 2013 | Edward Scott | The answer is, “yes.”

• Youth can learn interview skills to help secure jobs

  April 14, 2013 | Beverly Przystas | Tips and suggestions for when it is time for the interview.

• Reading from the beginning

  April 14, 2013 | Rachel Meyers | Children and reading skills.

• Making the best better

  April 10, 2013 | Edward Scott | “Good enough” rarely is.

• Youth can develop good character traits and life skills

  April 7, 2013 | Beverly Przystas | When showing livestock, a great opportunity is provided for youth to learn character development and life skills in a caring way.

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