5 Profitable Skills Your Children Can Learn This Holiday

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Children’s development should not only be centred on cognitive areas alone, it should embrace the whole idea of improving their psycho-motor domain of learning and emotions as well.

As a parent who wants to train children that will not only be academic genius alone but will be skilled and knowledgeable in other profitable spheres of human endeavour, it then becomes pivotal to seize the opportunity of this summer holiday to expose them to different skills that will make them valuable to themselves and the society.

In this article on EKO HOT BLOG we would be looking at some profitable skills your children can learn during the holidays.

1. Computer appreciation skills

Computer appreciation is one comprehensive knowledge and skill that will be relevant to your children now and in the future. There are a couple of areas in computer knowledge that is rewarding and his heavily in high demand today, they include programming/coding, graphic/web design, and just to mention but a few. These branches of computer science will give your children an edge over their contemporaries.

2. Managing and analyzing sales transactions

If you have a shop or business where goods and financial transactions are made, it might be an opportunity to educate your children in this area since they are on holiday. For instance, if you deal in the sale of goods, you should educate your children in the awareness of how the goods are sold and how the profit is realized. Doing this will broaden their mind about the financial market and how to calculate figures faster.

3. Craftsmanship skills

Apart from education, different skills are heavily paying off in our society today. There are different choices of skills you can train your children on, they include; barbing, tailoring, shoe making, beadwork and beauty kits, laptop/phone repairs and a whole lot of others. Exposing your children to these skills on time will only increase their chances of having a side hustle in their adulthood.

4. Catering/baking

There are a lot of people earning massively from the baking and catering services today. Teaching your children how to cook and bake simple snacks like cakes, sausage and others will make them good cooks. Such training might even ignite their interest to be professional caterers and own catering services in the future.

5. Learning a foreign language

Knowing how to communicate fluently in another foreign language, most especially the ones that are in high demand will improve their cognitive aspect of learning and also give them an edge over their equals.

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Opening your children to a service that teaches foreign languages, especially French and Spanish will help improve their knowledge of other international styles of communication, and it might even open the door to a source of income for them in the future.

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