A modern and energetically designed encyclopedia of DIY with everything you need to know to roll up your sleeves and cook it, build it, sew it, clean it, or repair it yourself. In other words, everything you would have learned from your shop and home ec teachers, if you'd had them. The Useful Book features 138 practical projects and how-tos, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations, relevant charts, sidebars, lists, and handy toolboxes. There’s a kitchen crash course, including the must-haves for a well-stocked pantry; how to boil an egg (and peel it frustration-free); how to grill, steam, sauté, and roast vegetables. There’s Sewing 101, plus how to fold a fitted sheet, tie a tie, mop a floor, make a bed, and set the table for a formal dinner. Next up: a 21st-century shop class. The tools that everyone should have, and dozens of cool projects that teach fundamental techniques. Practice measuring, cutting, and nailing by building a birdhouse. Make a bookshelf or a riveted metal picture frame. Plus: do-it-yourself plumbing; car repair basics; and home maintenance, from priming and painting to refinishing wood floors.

Instructional guide for teaching, learning, and developing home economics in the classroom and home, K-12.

Discover all the life hacks you’ve been missing with this perfect compendium of skills to answer all of life’s most asked questions from BuzzFeed’s popular lifestyle destination Tasty Home. Need help unclogging a drain? Can’t seem to keep a plant alive? Just want to finally know how to fold a fitted sheet? Let BuzzFeed’s Tasty Home make your life a whole lot easier. With Tasty Home: Life Skills, you’ll learn simple tricks, helpful hacks, and super easy DIYs to increase your how-to knowledge. This book teaches you everything you need to know—even things you didn’t know you needed to know! Based on the most searched topics on Tasty Home’s site and social channels, this go-to guide covers the kind of questions that would have you calling mom. Now, you can secure your spot as a real-life adult whether you need to fix a kitchen fail or quickly sew on a button, this book has your back. Tasty Home: Life Skills packs all the fun and helpful info of BuzzFeed’s how-to site into the perfect guide you’ll find yourself going back to again and again.

This book is very helpful in helping young adults get their first job, moving into their own living quarters, or about to go off to college, this guidebook provides a basic look at what it takes to make it in today's world. Each chapter covers a major area in life skills without becoming a lecture or sounding like the proverbial parental talk.

Does your child know how to use a check book? Boil an egg? Do the laundry? Read a map? Homeschooler Christine Field helps parents systematically teach kids - from preschool to the teen years - what they need to know to thrive as adults.

Topics include: Spending Limits Budget Basics Budget Categories A Place to Live Paying for Utilities Shoppers' Choices In the Supermarket Saving on Clothes Thoughts on Transportation Money Emergencies About Insurance Discretionary Income Sales Promotions Spending at Home Free Entertainment Renting This and Buying That Paying for Health Giving Money and Hours Investing Money Credit Cards Warranties and Complaints Taxes In Time of Trouble Learning more See other Life Skills Literacy titles

Are You Ready To Be A Grown-Up? A wise person once said "The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence." Because that's the goal of parenting, right? We all want to raise compassionate, independent young adults, who have the courage, confidence and desire to reach their potential. But how do we raise children to be this way: resilient and confident? Self-confidence, for the most part, rises out of a sense of competence - from a feeling that we can do things, big and small. Inside this book you will find 100 LIFE SKILLS that every kid would benefit from learning by the time they're ready to leave home. Why? Because we are raising the future adults of this world. The bottom line is this: we need to equip our kids with the skills they need to survive and prosper in the real world. Eventually they will leave home and we need to do what we can to guarantee their greatest chance of success in life. This book provides information on all the important skills, needed to succeed both inside and outside the home. These skills are not only valuable but achievable because it's never too late to learn something new.