Life skills From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable us to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life, [1] in other words psychosocial competency. [2] They are a set of human skills acquired via teaching or direct experience that are used to handle problems and questions commonly encountered in daily human life. The subject varies greatly depending on social norms and community expectations but skills that functions for well-being and aid individuals to develop into active and productive members of their communities are considered as life skills. Enumeration and categorization The UNICEF Evaluation Office suggests that "there is no definitive list" of psychosocial skills; [3] nevertheless UNICEF enumerates psychosocial and interpersonal skills are generally well being oriented and essential along...