I found that learning life skills as school work was not working well for us. The school work schedule all of a sudden became huge, and a burden. What was supposed to be fun and fulfilling became the opposite. So, I simply remembered that life skills are just that: Skills we learn while we live our lives. Some life skills we may learn as the need arises, while many others we may not ever need to use. Which is why I have been using Keepers of the Faith. It helps us to not forget to learn new skills, but I don’t schedule ourselves like I do for school work when working these in. It’s a special treat to work on these for us, so we try to get our chores and school work done, and remembering that there is this reward once or twice, sometimes more, per week. I also try to incoporate these life skills lessons into our weekends.
Trying to make it a part of our actual lives, like the skill of canning, baking, raising animals, etc, may actually help us do these without any planning!
I am adding this because I just read one of your responses. I think that KOF would work really well as a checklist. That is basically what the book is. It goes over many different skills, and some you may need to look up elsewhere, but most have explanations on how or what to do. Have you looked at their samples? I think you can on their website.
