Feeling like your high schooler or college student hasn't made the most of their summer because they don’t have a job, internship or class?

Not every high school or college student is going to be able to get a summer job, or internship or be able to enroll in a class. Getting a job or internship is increasingly competitive and maybe your kid is burnt out from taking academic classes and needs a break.

But it doesn’t have to mean that summer isn’t a time for learning.

Use the summer to help them learn the life skills they need to thrive in the world.

Here are the six skills we work on with our young clients to help them move towards greater independence and life success:

• Learning to Manage Their Finances

• Taking Care of Their Health and Wellness

• Building Community

• Being Able to Do Things for Themselves

• Learning to Pause and Reflect…And Make Change 

• Financial Self-Management

Your kid has no internship even though you bugged them all winter to line one up and they didn’t start looking till May?

No Problem! 

Teach them how to budget for groceries by taking them to the grocery store with you.

They don’t have a job because even the barista jobs at Starbucks are being filled by code writers with Masters degrees who have been down sized? 

Pish.

Now is the time you teach them how to make a meal.

Your kid isn’t taking Quantum Physics this summer because they are burnt out on science because of the demanding class they had Spring  semester and need a break?

Don’t cry for me Argentina.

Time to go for a daily walk together instead to model health and wellness.

There are so many skills that your kid needs to learn to thrive in the world. Mourn the summer that could have been and help them have a summer that they will look back on and feel like they really started to take the steps to move towards the independence that they crave.

If you are feeling like the summer has gotten away from your kid and you want to make the most of what you have left, reach out to us for a free consultation to see how we can help your kid pivot to a summer of possibility.