Life Skill

Life skill has some definition, from two words “life’ and “skill” it can be meant as a skill or creativity to adapt and to do positive activity then as a stock to face the challenge in life effectively. But, I think that life skill is totality of skills including physical, psychology, and spiritual that brings benefit to manage own self within to facing environment and ability to be creative and solve the problem. Life skill has importance aspect to our life, namely learning to know, learning to do, learning to be, learning to live together. That’s importance aspects of life skill. It can mean that person could fill all of those on their life, as summary they had belong life skill. Surely, life skill also will influence the education of formal/school or education in family. Teacher as an educator in formal education and parent as main educator have the role to develop life skill of their children. Spiritual as an importance parts of life skill also give encouragement to develop life skill. In addition, Islam as a religion which always sets out spiritual has a view in life skill. So, the aspects that related to life skill will give every importance matter to each other.    

The existence of life skill is undeniable in society life, because life skill included creativity and skill to solve the problem in our life particularly. Moreover, creativity and skill will play the role in society life. Life skill will teach every person to survive in any condition, be responsible to every deed and be able to solve the problem with all of creativity and skill that included of physical, psychology, and spiritual elements. Thus, in my opinion life skill is the entire of skill included physical, psychology, and spiritual that brings benefit to manage own self within to facing environment and ability to be creative person and be able to solve the problem.

Absolutely, this life does not promise easy matter, but we have life skill that would assist the things we have done. Then, within evolving the life skill there are some importance aspects which we need to remember and have to pay attention. Here are those importance aspects;

First, learning to know or cognitive abilities is an ability to learn about skill to answer the problem either or to make a decision and solutions for evaluating personal value, or attitude.

Second, learning to do is personal ability to do something and learn to be able for everything especially in vocational skill.

Third, learning to be or personal abilities is skill that includes some abilities for example, in improving of internal control center skill for one instance is to grow up the confidence. In essentials, this aspect explain about personal abilities, concerning about to manage own self skill, particularly inner self control such as managing emotional, stress, positive thinking, etc.

Fourth, learning to live together or it can means as interpersonal abilities. It is skill that be able to communicate and working together in society as well.  

            However, life skill has important in education there are formal and informal education. Formal education usually type as school education where children or someone learn to develop their hard skill. Academic attainment will give big influence within formal education. Although someone has high academic attainment, but they don’t have life skill all of academic attainment values in formal education are wasted away.  Then, in this case the role of the parents will play, the parents as educator in informal education should be active fostering life skill in family life. And they have to form moral, character and train life skill ability to their child without forget some importance aspects of life skill. Henceforth, the teacher as formal educator also have obligation to play the role of student life skill development. In my opinion, teacher will help student to build up the ability   each person and develop student’s life skill to take on academic attainment.

            Moreover, if education such as formal or school education only gives priority to academic attainment, it will be prone toward dangerous for progress of social-emotional aspect.

“There are three influential point of success for anyone: First, spiritual intelligence; Two, academic attainment; Third, skill.” (Dinsi, 2012)

I think spiritual intelligence is one of main points, because it shall influences of life skill development. In addition, Islam has a view in life skill even since long time ago Our Prophet Muhammad SAW had taught His pupils effectively to be a creative person and could be a problem solving one. Articulately, Muhammad SAW made good example for all of us to implant life skill into our society life.

            To conclude, life skill included some importance aspects and it has related to each other. Then, to develop the life skill especially children their parent and the closes parties of them have to support in evolving of life skill. Finally, life skill is an importance thing in our life.