🌿 HUMAN SKILLS FOUNDATIONS · AGES 10-12
Empowering Learners to Grow With Purpose
At ages 10-12, learners take more ownership of their choices, time, and identity. This program builds the skills they need to navigate that growth managing emotions, communicating clearly, thinking critically, and making smart decisions independently.
7
Units
21
Lessons
21
Hours
7
Certificates
$159
$7/hour — less than a single tutoring session
12-month access · Self-paced · All 7 units
🛡️ 14-day full refund if it’s not right for your child
✓ 21 hours of guided learning ($7/hr)
✓ Real-world scenarios & activities
✓ Reflective prompts & journals
✓ Quizzes + life skills reports
✓ 7 certificates of completion
✓ Works on laptop, tablet, or phone
7 units included — click any to jump to details
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The Self-Starter
Our Attention
The Value of Myself
Spending Time Wisely
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The Peacemaker
Managing Emotions
Saying Sorry
Keep Your Cool
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The Athlete
Food Labels
Fuel Your Brain
Exercise & Mental Health
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The Voice
Make Your Message Clear
Fixing Communication
Working In Groups
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The Groundbreaker
The Colour Wheel
Make It Fake It
Video Games!
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The Financier
Spend Save or Share?
How Much Is It Worth?
Habit of Saving
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The Tech Wizard
Being Kind Online
Think Before You Click
AI for Learning
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What a Lesson Looks Like
🧭 The Athlete – Preview
Interactive scenarios · Reflective prompts · Comprehension quiz
Your child works through each section at their own pace
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The Self-Starter
Independent Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to trust yourself and stay on track. This unit helps students understand their strengths, manage their time and focus, and set goals that support progress and personal growth. At this age, independence isn’t given — it’s built through practice and self-awareness.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students explore how attention works and what steals it, discover their value beyond grades and achievements, and learn to make thoughtful decisions about how they spend their time. Each lesson builds the self-management skills that underpin success in every area of life.
What Your Learner Gains
✓Understands how attention works and how to protect it from distractions
✓Recognises their value beyond grades and achievements
✓Makes thoughtful decisions about how to spend their time
✓Sets meaningful goals that balance ambition with realistic planning
Lesson 1
Our Attention
Your attention is your most valuable resource.
Discover how attention works, what steals it, and how to take it back. Build the focus skills that drive everything else — from schoolwork to friendships to hobbies.
1 hour
Lesson 2
The Value of Myself
You’re worth more than any test score can measure.
Explore what makes you valuable beyond grades — your character, kindness, effort, and unique way of seeing the world. Build self-worth that doesn’t depend on external validation.
1 hour
Lesson 3
Spending Time Wisely
How you spend your time is how you spend your life.
Learn to make choices about time that align with what actually matters to you — not just what’s urgent, expected, or easiest. The skill that changes everything.
1 hour
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The Peacemaker
Empathy Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to stay calm and handle conflict with care. This unit helps students understand their emotions, take responsibility for mistakes, and respond to others with empathy and self-control — skills that define the quality of every relationship they’ll ever have.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students learn to name and manage emotions before they take over, understand when and how to apologise genuinely, and build strategies for staying calm under pressure. These are the emotional regulation skills that schools and parents consistently identify as most needed.
What Your Learner Gains
✓Names and manages emotions before they escalate into conflict
✓Understands the power of a genuine apology and when to use it
✓Stays calm under pressure — responding instead of reacting
✓Builds stronger relationships through emotional intelligence
Lesson 1
Managing Emotions
Emotions aren’t the problem not understanding them is.
Learn to identify what you’re feeling, understand why, and choose how to respond — instead of being controlled by emotions you can’t name.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Saying Sorry
A real apology has the power to repair anything.
Discover the difference between a real apology and an empty one. Practice taking responsibility in ways that actually repair and strengthen relationships.
1 hour
Lesson 3
Keep Your Cool
Staying calm is a skill — and it can be learned.
Build strategies for staying calm when things get heated — in arguments, under pressure, and when others push your buttons. The skill adults wish they’d mastered earlier.
1 hour
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The Athlete
Healthy Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn how to fuel your body and mind every day. This unit helps students make smart choices about food, movement, and focus — building habits that support energy, mood, and mental strength throughout their growing years.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students learn to decode food labels, understand how nutrition directly affects brain function, and discover the proven connection between exercise and mental health. Each lesson builds practical, sustainable habits — not rules to follow, but choices to understand.
What Your Learner Gains
✓Reads and understands food labels to make informed eating choices
✓Understands how nutrition directly affects brain function and concentration
✓Recognises the connection between exercise and mental health
✓Builds sustainable daily habits for physical and emotional well-being
Lesson 1
Food Labels
What’s really inside the food you eat?
Decode what’s actually in your food — learn to read labels, spot hidden ingredients, and make choices that fuel your best performance in school and life.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Fuel Your Brain
Your brain runs on what you feed it.
Discover how what you eat directly affects how you think, concentrate, and feel. Build a brain-friendly eating approach that works for your real life.
1 hour
Lesson 3
Exercise and Mental Health
Movement is medicine and the best kind is the kind you enjoy.
Explore the science behind why movement makes you happier, less anxious, and more focused. Find the activities that work for you — not someone else’s routine.
1 hour
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The Voice
Communicative Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to speak up clearly and work well with others. This unit helps students share ideas with confidence, fix communication breakdowns, and contribute meaningfully in group settings — the skills that determine success in school, work, and relationships.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students learn to structure thoughts before speaking, identify and fix common miscommunications, and practice contributing to group discussions and team projects. Each lesson builds the communication skills teachers and parents identify as most critical for this age.
What Your Learner Gains
✓Structures thoughts clearly before speaking — making every word count
✓Identifies and fixes common communication breakdowns
✓Contributes meaningfully to group discussions and team projects
✓Listens to understand, not just to reply
Lesson 1
Make Your Message Clear
Clear communication is a superpower.
Learn to organise your thoughts and say what you mean — clearly, confidently, and in a way others actually understand and remember.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Fixing Communication
Most problems between people are communication problems.
Discover why misunderstandings happen, how to spot them early, and what to do when a conversation goes sideways. The repair skills that save relationships.
1 hour
Lesson 3
Working and Talking In Groups
The best ideas come from teams that know how to talk.
Practice the art of contributing to teams — sharing ideas, building on others’ thoughts, and making group work actually work instead of falling apart.
1 hour
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The Groundbreaker
Innovative Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to think creatively and express yourself with style. This unit helps students explore colour, design, and media — using imagination and critical thinking to create original, meaningful work that goes beyond following instructions.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students discover colour theory and how colours communicate mood, explore how media is constructed and create their own, and dive into game design thinking. Each lesson builds creative confidence across different formats and mediums.
What Your Learner Gains
✓Understands colour theory and how colours communicate mood and meaning
✓Explores how media is made — and creates their own
✓Thinks critically about design choices in the world around them
✓Builds creative confidence across different formats and mediums
Lesson 1
The Colour Wheel
Colours speak a language everyone understands.
Discover how colours work together, why certain combinations feel right, and how designers use colour to communicate without words. See the world in new ways.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Make It, Fake It, Recreate It
Everything you see was made by someone — now it’s your turn.
Explore how media is made — from photos to videos to digital art — and learn to create, remix, and think critically about what you see every day.
1 hour
Lesson 3
It's-a Me, Video Games!
Behind every game is a designer who thought like you.
Go behind the scenes of game design — understanding how games are built, what makes them engaging, and how to think like a creator, not just a player.
1 hour
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The Financier
Money Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to make smart choices with the money you have. This unit helps students understand value beyond price tags, build consistent saving habits, and think carefully about how they spend, share, and manage their money at an age when these habits stick.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students explore the three choices they have with every dollar (spend, save, share), learn to evaluate whether things are truly worth their money, and turn saving from a chore into a habit. These are the financial foundations that compound over a lifetime.
What Your Learner Gains
✓Makes thoughtful decisions about spending, saving, and sharing money
✓Understands the true value of things beyond their price tag
✓Builds the habit of saving consistently toward a goal
✓Starts thinking like a financially responsible person
Lesson 1
Spend, Save, or Share?
Every dollar gives you three choices choose wisely.
Explore the three paths for every dollar you get and learn to make decisions that align with your goals and values, not just your impulses.
1 hour
Lesson 2
How Much Is It Really Worth?
Price and value are not the same thing.
Look beyond price tags. Learn to evaluate whether something is truly worth your money by considering quality, need, and long-term value not just the number.
1 hour
Lesson 3
The Habit of Saving
Small amounts today become big opportunities tomorrow.
Turn saving from a chore into a habit setting goals, tracking progress, and experiencing the genuine satisfaction of reaching a target you set for yourself.
1 hour
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The Tech Wizard
Technology Life Skills
3 lessons · 3 hours
Learn to use technology in smart and respectful ways. This unit helps students stay safe online, think critically before sharing, and explore how AI tools can support learning and creativity — all while building the digital citizenship skills that define responsible technology use.
What’s Inside This Unit
Students practice digital kindness and understand the real impact of online behaviour, build the habit of thinking critically before clicking or sharing, and explore AI tools that support learning and creative work. Each lesson builds responsible digital habits that last.
What Your Learner Gains
✓Practices digital kindness and understands the real impact of online behaviour
✓Thinks critically before clicking, sharing, or downloading
✓Explores AI tools that support learning, creativity, and problem-solving
✓Builds safe, responsible digital habits that last into adulthood
Lesson 1
Being Kind Online
Kindness matters just as much on a screen as in person.
Discover why kindness matters online and learn to be someone who makes the internet better, not worse. Real-world consequences of digital behaviour.
1 hour
Lesson 2
Think Before You Click
One pause can prevent a hundred problems.
Build the habit of pausing before you act online — evaluating links, messages, and content before engaging. The skill that keeps you safe in a fast-moving digital world.
1 hour
Lesson 3
AI for Learning and Fun
AI is a tool learn to use it, not be used by it.
Explore how AI tools can help you learn faster, create more, and solve problems — while understanding their limits and staying in control of your own thinking.
1 hour
Frequently Asked Questions
Before you enroll
Each lesson includes a virtual guide who explains activities and keeps learners on track. Children can work independently. Parents are welcome to join but it's not required.
Lessons work on any laptop, tablet, or phone with a web browser. We recommend a tablet or laptop for the best experience, but everything is fully accessible on mobile.
You have 12 months of access from the date of enrollment. Most families complete the program in 7-10 weeks at one lesson per week. If you need more time, contact us and we'll work with you.
Full refund within 14 days of purchase if the program isn't right for your child. No questions asked. Email courses@shiminly.com.
Each unit includes comprehension quizzes and a life skills report showing your child's growth. You'll receive a certificate of completion for each unit finished.
Give your child every advantage
All 7 units. 21 lessons. 21 hours of guided learning. Complete life skills foundation for ages 10-12.
$159
$7/hr — less than tutoring
12-month access · Self-paced · 7 certificates · 14-day refund guarantee



