A Parents and Teachers guide for children to be happier, resilient, and succeed in school.
Student Life Skills (SLS) is a collection of easy-to-understand life skill lessons that take just one-minute to learn. Endorsed by Professors and Deans at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago.
What's Included
Take it for a spin! We're sure you'll love it.
One-Minute Lessons
SLS offers quick-to-learn lessons that actually work. Every lesson is anchored with a Key Word and Key Question so you and your child can easily retrieve the life skill.
SLS is Both New and Old
Being gritty and resilient are time-tested life skills over generations - there is no doubt that they work. SLS brings them to you and your child in a fresh, relatable delivery.
Evidence-Based
SLS is built on life skills and habits that are proven to impact the lives of children the most.
What Student Life Skills Looks Like
More than 60 Ready-to-Use Two-Minute Lessons to Help Children Reduce Worry and Anger and Develop Life Skills to Increase Happiness and Health
To Reduce Worry
Learn to know a Big Problem from a Little Problem.
To Increase Happiness
Change Got To to Get To.
At Student Life Skills, Our Lessons are Concise and Actionable
"In Student Life Skills, Paul Sweetow provides useful tools for parents and teachers to help children learn skills for coping with their feelings in different life situations involving school, family and friends. I highly recommend the book to parents and teachers who want to help children develop resilience so that each child can deal easily with hardships that come along."
- Penelope L. Peterson, Ph.D.
Dean, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
"Paul Sweetow’s book Student Life Skills delivers on the promise of enhancing lives and building life skills by connecting schools, students, and families. The book provides a straightforward approach to building emotional and interpersonal competence and confidence—
the life skills that all parents and teachers want for their children."
- Jeanne C. Marsh, Ph.D.
Dean of Students, University of Chicago, Graduate School of Social Service Administration
"Paul Sweetow shared his program with our parents, and the feedback was very positive. His Student Life Skills book and presentations provide simple, easy-to-use strategies for helping children learn relationship, problem-solving and self-reflection skills, which are, as one parent workshop attendee told us,‘very valuable skills for my child. I cannot wait to try out the activities together."
- Susan Corwith
Associate Director, Center for Talent Development, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
Student Life Skills
Improving Children's Lives with Life Skills that Just Take Minutes To Learn. Endorsed by professors from The University of Chicago and Northwestern University.
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Paying It Forward.
For every course purchased, one is donated to a member of the military or a first responder.
"As a veteran and clinician working with the military, I understand that the relationship with our children are critically important for the emotional wellness of both the child and the parent. Student Life Skills provides actionable tools and strategies for parents to help their children in areas of: increasing happiness, reducing stress and anger, building grit and resilience, succeeding in school, and enhancing relationships with family and friends. I highly recommend Student Life Skills to all military parents."
Stan McCraken, Ph.D.
Vietnam Veteran - US Army. Senior Lecturer-Retired, University of Chicago
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