Your children may not yet know what they want to be when they grow up. They will acquire professional knowledge in due time. In the meantime, we as parents can help our children become versatile professionals who will succeed in any profession. Here are the skills you should develop in your children now:
1. Working with information. If a child knows how to find the right data, process and structure it, he will be able to understand any topic, learn a lot quickly and become successful in any profession.
2. Working with people. It is important to teach your child to understand other people's point of view and to find compromises.
3. Working with finance. What happens in adulthood is this: a professional who knows the company's EBIDTA and can estimate the payback on a proposed project gets a position, a salary, and project management.
Valentina, economist: "You have to teach a child to manage money from childhood. When he becomes the head of a large company, he will be able to understand what the profit is made of and how to increase it.
4. Self-discipline. It is good to be a passionate person, but you need to be able to bring things to the end, to work with dedication, to invest every day with new strength. And then to enjoy the result deservedly.
5. Soft-Skills skills. These are skills that make a person flexible in any profession. Whether your child wants to be an engineer, an accountant, a programmer, or a teacher, soft-skills will be very useful to him or her.
Danil, entrepreneur: "In every profession, flexibility is important. For example, a manager or a marketer will be able to find a job in case of any market changes or crises. They have all their knowledge behind them, figuratively speaking. In any niche or industry they will be able to quickly reorganize themselves. But it will be more difficult for 1C developers, for example.
You may have to learn a new programming language from scratch or find a new job. This is where time management, critical and creative thinking, self-learning and other universal skills come in handy.
All these qualities and skills can be formed in any person, and in childhood it is much easier to do it.
