What knowledge or skills do you hope your kids to have?

A secondary language is a must-have if possible when you are young. It doesn't only allow you to speak with people, it introduces you to other cultures, opens your mind on how things could be so differently. I'm from a Spanish speaker country and learned English alone. Music also. What I consider the most important thing is that learning shouldn't feel like an obligation.

I hope my kid learns how to be handy and take care of stuff like cars and houses.

I hope she learns good money management skills

How to handle emotions and mange relationships and use others to get what she wants in life be that fiscal emotional or otherwise.

I hope she learns how to handle abusive and toxic people and cut them off.

Also how to manage risk and take advantage of situations where risk reward are in her favor.

* planning - The informal calculus of anticipating changes and moving targets is a common sense few people possess.

* self-reflection - The confidence to objectively see yourself as a non-special data point comparable to other data points prevents many failures attributable to bias.

* honesty - Honesty is a skill many people are shockingly terrible at and horrified to encounter. Yet it determines who seeks to do you harm more so than anything else.

* immortality - If the children inherent the rare physical traits that I have grown into there is never reason to feel physical intimidation from other people. Let that define their character more than anything else.

- Ability to determine whether a fact is fake or not.

- Computer Science (Think Like a Programmer)

- Empathy

- To go through a struggle and learn from it.

- Embrace Pain instead of running away from it.

- Handle Personal Finance (Tax, Saving, Investment)

- System Thinking (Understand Everyone is Playing a Game)

- Not get influenced by Advertising. (Dont be funnel)

- Dont be a skinner box.

- Ability to love one person for rest of their life.

I don't know if it's a skill per se. But if agency or initiative is learnable it's something I'm hoping for for my son. The things I'm proud of I decided to do without direct prompting from others

Mathematical skills, to find a job.

Critical, independent, thinking

All these life skills are great, I was also going to say mathematics though. It’s well known that languages are much easier to pick up for children, I think math is similar. Even if your daughter never uses it outside of school, fluency makes school much less stressful, and opens many doors.

How to learn - no one teaches how to learn effectively and yet we are expected to be lifelong learners.

Fix my VCR / DVD / DVR / Netflix / whatever when I'm old.

In my opinion there is a lot to learn. And also a lot of usefull / important stuff. But if I had to decide for just one thing, I would say to stay positive and optimistic no matter what.

Critical thinking skills and extreme appreciation for thinking for themselves.

Fluency in 4 languages before 12. I speak X, my wife speaks Y, we both speak to each other in English and we live in a country that speaks Z. Could be a challenge, I know.

To not disregard physical education in favour of mental formation. mens sana in corpore sano.

Abelity to build Clojure and detmoic.