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Life Skills Challenge

Posted on by djbechard

 

The Post Rock District Life Skills Challenge is interactive learning for youth that lasts a lifetime. The first challenge, When Life is Tough, shares key tools to cope with stress. Future challenges will teach lessons on savings accounts, reading, leadership, and more.

Each life skill features a cartoon story, quiz, educational video, and downloadable interactive worksheet. Tackle one or all of the challenges with a single, no cost registration.
Learn more and register at postrock.ksu.edu/youth-development/life-skills.

If you’re looking for good tools to help your kids of all ages learn and grow, the Life Skills Challenge is a simple and fun resource created to build basic skills for a better life.

By: Nora Rhoades

Raise Your Hand For Kansas Youth – Help 4-H Win $20,000!

Posted on by Marci Metz

In 4-H, we believe in the power of America’s youth to succeed in life; however, only one in three youth say they have the skills they need to handle what life throws their way.

That’s why 4-H created “Raise Your Hand.” A nationwide call to action for alumni and friends to “Raise Your Hand” to empower our nation’s youth with the skills to lead for a lifetime.

The state with the most hands raised will win $20,000 for their local 4-H programs. Help bring high-quality 4-H experiences to even more youth right here in Kansas!

4-H gives youth the opportunity to learn by doing, grow from failure and develop the skills they need to make a difference in their community. We’re asking you, friends and alumni of 4-H, to Raise Your Hand to support 4-H’ers in Kansas!

 

“Voting” is easy – simply go online to www.4-H.org/RaiseYourHand. The contest ends May 15, so Raise Your Hand now and select KANSAS.

By:  Nora Rhoades

Why Family Communication Is Important

Posted on by Marci Metz

We rarely think about our communication with loved ones. However, family communication is very important and determines our relationships with each other, setting the tone for family life. Family communication is not simple. It has many parts. Communication is more than what we say and do. Our messages depend on how we think the other person will react, so we communicate differently with individual members of the family. Each of us has several different communication patterns that develop over time. It depends on who is communicating.

K-State Research and Extension’s, Essential Living Skills: Basic Family Communication is a curriculum that guides participants toward improving everyday communication in their families. This educational program emphasizes skill-building and mindful communication techniques for improving family communication and interaction.

To access the curriculum, visit https://www.bookstore.ksre.ksu.edu/pubs/S134E.pdf. For assistance, using the curriculum to improve your own family communication, and/or to explore ways you might be able to effectively use the curriculum as a teaching tool in a learning environment, contact Nora Rhoades, Family and Youth Development Agent in the Post Rock District.

By:  Nora Rhoades