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If your perception of a healthy life wholly revolves around the absence of disease, then you’re wrong. Your overall health is about more than just the absence of infections. But, your physical and mental state or social well-being are all critical to living a healthy life. And these apply to you and your teenagers or family at large.

It may not be true to all, but most parents have found it hard to help their teenagers cope with life. Most teenagers are battling many challenges that bar them from achieving their full potential of a healthy life. Adolescence and dealing with sex, peer pressure, poor decision-making, depression and anxiety, substance abuse, and lack of self-control are among the leading problems teenagers face.

When these challenges are not managed, or when the teenagers are not well equipped with healthy life skills, most of them would lose track of their expectations. Therefore as a parent or guardian, you should ensure you teach your teenager the necessary life skills to help them face the real world or live a better life. Otherwise, there is a good chance they’ll struggle to cope with life.

Here are some of the essential life skills that would help your teenager live a healthy life.

Emotion coping skills

For a long time, the medical community and people thought that emotions like depression and anxiety only affect adults. However, that's not the case. The risk of depression, anxiety, or stress is more rampant in teenagers than in adults.

What could be the reason?

Adults may have known some of the best ways to handle their situations or emotions. And that's not the same with teenagers. In them, emotions like sadness, loneliness, stress, depression, and anxiety would spike suicidal thoughts and behaviours.

Therefore, parents and guardians should ensure they help their teenagers deal with whatever emotions they have. Show them the best ways to react to different emotions. And most importantly, teenagers should know that suicide is not the solution to their feelings. But instead, a discussion would help them move past their feelings to a healthier life.

Decision-making skills

It’s normal for teenagers to worry about fitting into specific groups. And most teenagers are fond of making decisions based on their peers. Most of which might not be healthy decisions. Besides, it's easy to find out what kind of teenagers your child is associating with significantly when their characters and behaviours have changed towards the negative.

Therefore, teenagers need to learn and master the decision-making skills to help them recognize teen pressure when the pressure helps or hinders them. Also, you can teach your teenager how to develop their individuality.

Additionally, it would be best if teenagers develop creative and critical thinking skills. All of which would help them think differently should they be under the influence of their peers. They may also know when they're getting into problems and apply the right decisions to understand and address them.

Healthcare skills

Personal healthcare or healthy habits are essential life skills that your teens should have. Of course, as a guardian, you must have been responsible for most health decisions. However, it would be better to understand how important it is to care for their bodies and minds.

Check out this related post: Why Listening to Your Body is Important

Therefore, teach your teenagers to take a more active role in taking care of their health. And more so, teenagers should master self-control skills. They should learn to stand up for themselves, learn how to self-diagnose, how to address wounds, and how to check their temperature. Also, let your teenagers know how to conduct basic first aid techniques and CPR in case of emergencies.

Additionally, teenagers should be aware of the effects of substance abuse on their health and prioritize always going for regular STD screening and testing. In other words, coach your teens to be their health advocates.

Finally, train your teens to live a healthy life by showing them the importance of a healthy diet and maintaining a suitable environment for their health.

Social skill

How your teens address different people would determine what kind of life they want to live. But to live a healthy life full of blessings, they must learn the manners that would help them in different social set-ups.

Therefore, teach your teens the best communication and interpersonal skills to enable them to work or socialize with other people without exchanging words which may put them at risk. It would be best if they know how to develop and maintain relationships. Also, let them know when to say, "thank you, please," and other etiquettes.

Budgeting skills

Indeed, your teens know about money. But how best can they manage it? Most teenagers can have money but may spend all of it buying what they may not even need. However, frustrations will hit them when they have finished everything but have no other means to survive.

Therefore, it’s best to show your teenager how to manage money and live within their budgets. This would help them make the right choices and reduce frustrations that might strike them in the absence of money.

Conclusion

You may have taken your teenagers to the best schools ever. But academic skills are not all they need to have a healthy life. They must couple their academics with the best life skills like effective social, personal healthcare, emotional coping, and decision-making skills to have a better and healthy life.

What other life skills do you know that would help teenagers live a healthy life? Let me know in the comments below and while you are here why not check out more of my lifestyle posts?

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Accessorising your bathroom can completely transform the look without having to redecorate the room entirely. Introducing colour into your bathroom is presented perfectly through your accessories, allowing you to achieve the perfect balance of colour throughout the room without overdoing it, particularly if the space isn’t large. We have the best instant bathroom updates which are perfect for transforming your bathroom quickly. From storage to towels, to even updating your shower head, we have the perfect tips for you and your home.

Towels

Extra fluffy, large towels are a beautiful way to begin to accessories your bathroom. Utilise your towels for your pops of colour, you can even match them to your bath matt to carry the theme through the entire bathroom. The extra fluffy the extra elegance, not to mention how kind this is to your skin after a lovely shower. You should display your freshly laundered towels to really make a focal point in your bathroom. Additionally, using a little wicker basket to house your flannels by your towel display breaks up the décor and adds beautiful textures and definition.

Shower Head

You can entirely rejuvenate your bathroom by refreshing the showerhead. You may have an outdated shower head which is taking away the life your bathroom has to give. If your budget is slightly too tight for an entire bathroom remodel you may consider changing your shower head for a more aesthetically pleasing style, a simply beautiful change that takes a matter of minutes.

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Storage

Bespoke storage is the perfect solution to any small bathroom space, to make use of every nook and cranny. Clutter can really take over your bathroom as the space isn’t always blessed with storage solutions and what better way to accessorise and finalise your bathroom. Nothing is more personal than adding your own unique touch to your bathroom by designing your own, bespoke storage which can feature beautiful bathroom accessories and accent décor.

If your budget doesn’t stretch as far as bespoke storage, consider a towel shelf, this is a beautiful way to feature your towels, some faux plants and perhaps a wicker basket full of your toilet roll, making the un glamourous objects in your home become somewhat stylish.

Accessories

Matching your soap dispenser and toothbrush holder is a beautiful way of tying the room in together with additional robe hooks, towel rails and shelving. For the extra stylish accessories, you can explore neutral décor pieces such as decorative coral and rattan shelving for the ultimate beach style bathroom vibe.

There is nothing like fresh, stylish accessories to make your bathroom pop. If the beach style vibe isn’t for you, you can adopt the grunge, industrial style bathroom featuring matte black bathroom sets and natural metal mirror frames. Alternatively, if the glam life suits you more, you can incorporate a chandelier above your bathtub, some beautiful white towels, glass bathroom sets and lots of fresh, white flowers.

What do you do to accessorise your bathroom? Let me know in the comments below and while you are here why not check out more of my home content?

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It’s surprising how easily clutter creeps upon us. Over the last year, I think we’ve all wished for more space at home, or better storage, or both. Now things are opening up again, it’s a good time to take a second look at how we sort out and store the precious things we own.

Fall in Love with Shelves

Open shelving is popular and fashionable right now, which is easy to tell from the range of styles and sizes available. With so much choice, you can match just about any decor style with ease. They help keep possessions attractively displayed and neat in every room in the house, even in the hallway.

Match and blend with existing colours for unobtrusive display shelving.

Get creative, with narrow shelves fitted to the end of kitchen cabinets for an alternative spice rack, or beneath cabinets for canisters and jars.

Choose rustic styles or modern floating shelves.

Install low shelves in children’s rooms for favourite books or toys.

Put a shelf above the bathroom door for spare towels or as extra space for beauty or shower products.

Hang a shelf above coat pegs or hooks in a hallway, so you have somewhere to fold scarves, hats, or gloves.

Fit a shelf above your headboard for night-time reading materials and a lamp in place of a floor-standing side table.

Creative Storage Ideas

All houses have areas where you could get creative, whether it’s that seemingly useless space under the stairs or the area underneath kitchen cabinets that’s normally sealed off with fitted boards.

Under the cabinets, it’s possible to replace the fitted boards with doors so you can access the area. It doesn’t have much height, but it’s good for long, flat things like mops and brooms, or bats and racquets, even bakeware and roasting tins. You could also use it for shoe storage, or smaller garden hand tools to keep them all together without rooting around in the shed.

Wardrobes too, have more space than you think with a bit of adapting.

Add a second rail beneath the first for half-length clothes.

Install a plastic drawer tower for folded items or smalls and accessories.

Fit a rail inside the door for scarves, beads, belts, or ties.

Stick hooks to the back wall so you can hang bags behind your clothes.

Have a rethink about how you store clothes. Lots of people these days take a seasonal approach to their wardrobe, putting out of season items into self-storage until they’re needed again. It works for clothes, but also anything else with seasonal use such as garden furnishings or even storage for bulky luggage items. You can have freestanding rails or drawers in self-storage rooms to help keep items pristine. It’s also a great place to store good children’s clothes you might want to save to hand down to younger siblings.

Swap Out or Adapt Your Furniture

Storage furniture is a godsend for keeping all the little things corralled and neat. Having drawers in occasional tables, or space beneath or inside coffee tables means you don’t have remotes, controllers and charging cables littering surfaces all the time.

If you’re thinking about changing your beds, choose ottoman or divan styles rather than bed frames. Bed frames may have space underneath for boxes or tubs, but it’s not as neat or convenient as having drawers built-in or a mattress you can simply lift.

Raised beds are good for older children, where you have storage below the sleeping platform, or maybe a desk. They offer more useful storage with work or play spaces within a small footprint, so you keep more of the floor clear.

Just keeping items together rather than spread out helps create a more orderly look. Think of storage stools or chests in the living room, that you can use for hobby gear or kids’ toys. Even just having a basket in the corner where you can throw the dog’s toys can save you tripping over them all the time and look neater than a pile of chewed toys.

Arranging things does take a bit of time and thought. Start by deciding what’s bothering you, then figure out what would make it better. Maybe you just need a smarter organisation system for storage, or maybe you could pack up some items you’re not using and put them in self storage until they’re needed again.

We all have different ideas about what works for storage, and happily, there are multiple solutions to suit everyone.

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