4-H Pledge:
A skill is a learned ability. Life Skills are those abilities that help people function well in the environments in which they live. 4-H focuses on developing skills that are healthy and productive for both youth and their communities. Mastery of any skill requires opportunities to try, make mistakes, and try again.
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The 4-H pledge focuses these life skills into four main areas:
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HEAD: Knowledge, Reasoning and Creativity Life Skills
Thinking: using one’s mind to form ideas and make decisions; to imagine, to examine carefully in the mind, to consider.
Managing: using resources to accomplish a purpose.
HEART: Personal/Social Life Skills
Relating: establishing a mutual or reciprocal connection between two people that is wholesome and meaningful to both.
Caring: showing understanding, kindness, concern and affection for others.
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HAND: Vocational/Citizenship Life Skills
Giving: providing, supplying, or causing to happen (social responsibility).
Working: accomplishing something or earning pay to support oneself through physical or mental effort.
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HEALTH: Health/Physical Life Skills
Living: Acting or behaving; the manner or style of daily life.
Being: living ones life; pursuing ones basic nature; involved in personal development.