40+ Life Skills to Learn for Basic Survival and Self-Reliance

We’ve lost the essential life skills that used to be commonplace in our world. Isn’t it time we reversed that trend?

We can all learn to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle by tackling some basic life skills. Just remember that it’s a journey and may take some time!

When my eldest son left for college I got a kick out of hearing some of the daily dilemmas that he and his roommates faced. Basic survival skills are not being taught at home these days, folks.

This is quite possibly because in our shift toward outsourcing just about everything, these kids’ parents have never learned these basic survival skills themselves, the skills that used to be commonplace in our world. Isn’t it time we reversed that trend?