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Use holidays to gain life skills  

Home Youth Corner Use holidays to gain life skills  

By Clemence Tashaya

EENHANA –Though this time is aimed at giving children a rest from the ever busy classroom routine, holidays should not break the chain of learning.

Parents should use this moment to take part in the teaching learning process of their children, a variety of programmes can be put in place to keep the idle children active.  As children are prepared for the later part of their life, we can never know what skill will elevate these young Namibian fellows to the next level. With schools focusing on formal skills, holidays should be a time to place emphasis on the informal and non formal skills.  Like internship at a vocational training centre and university, student should exercise their different abilities at places they can best be creative and productive.   Not only does this help build a complete pragmatic being but also a person who can analyse situations, connecting classroom knowledge to real life situations.

Every day the world becomes more and more competitive, we are racing against time to cope with its demands, which means a lot is needed with limited time therefore utilising all the time available to us is mandatory.   And as we work towards this we should not forget that this is not only the playing field of a teacher within a classroom setting but also a role each stakeholder should embrace in a combined effort.  For this moment the row has been handed over to you the parents, take the lead.