Your children are forever coming home from educational institutions apparently equipped to the hilt with these. At a time in your life when it’s easy to feel under assault from all sides, it’s good to remind yourself that you too have Life Skills. After all you must have had a life and there must be some perks resulting, mustn’t there, so just think positive. Don’t let anyone try and convince you otherwise. Just think positive. By simply doing your own Life Skills audit you may be surprised at the fascinating range you’ve gone and accumulated over the years.
A typical forties life skills profile:
Knowing what a teenager is thinking, even though she hasn’t spoken for two days.
Knowing what a parent is thinking even, though you haven’t spoken to them for two days
Able to set up a Freeview digital player so that at least you get the Shopping Channel and another which promises adult entertainment (even if it never works).
Knowing that if you turn a PC on and off enough times someone more technical than you will eventually point out that you’ve spilt ice cream and several Jammy Dodgers down your keyboard again.
Able to smile at people you don’t know with so much transparency you like to think you might be turning into Mother Theresa.
Able to reach a destination unaided by Sat Nav (er, mainly because you’re unable to use it).
Knowing that shop-bought mince pies always taste exactly the same as the other sort.
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