Abstract
Abstract The acquisition of practical life-skills is a domain of child competence that has received little research attention. Information on children's knowledge and performance of 20 life-skills was obtained from children aged either 8-9 or 15-16 and from one parent. Parents and children generally agreed on children's abilities at significant levels. Among younger children, life-skills competence was significantly associated with a measure of parental attention, parental loss, and maternal employment. Among adolescents, life-skills competence was significantly associated with maternal employment, family size, the frequency of family activities, and parental education. Life-skills competence was generally not associated with measures of academic competence.
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