Skills for Living is a comprehensive text designed to help students meet the challenges of their daily lives with confidence. Students will develop practical skills for making rational decisions at home and in the workplace. This edition features new information on technology and energy conservation. Updated topics include the Dietary Guidelines, adoption, and pattern figure types.
-- Chapter content holds student interest by focusing on issues of concern to teens.
-- Chapters include Objectives, New Terms, Summaries, Questions, and Activities.
-- Job titles listed at the beginning of each chapter encourage career planning.

Skills for Personal & Family Living, a comprehensive Family and Consumer Sciences text for the secondary level, helps students meet the challenges of their daily lives with confidence. They will learn practical skills for making decisions at home, school, and in the workplace. Career features called "Career Times" describe various careers, their preparation requirements, and personal qualities needed to succeed. New topics include accepting responsibility for decisions and their consequences, influences on behavior and decisions, promoting cultural diversity, preparing resumes, clothing label laws, multisize patterns, and trends in housing. Teacher's Wraparound Edition places suggested teaching strategies right on the student text page and answer keys next to the review questions.

Skills for Personal & Family Living, a comprehensive Family and Consumer Sciences text for the secondary level, helps students meet the challenges of their daily lives with confidence. They will learn practical skills for making decisions at home, school, and in the workplace. Career features called "Career Times" describe various careers, their preparation requirements, and personal qualities needed to succeed. New topics include accepting responsibility for decisions and their consequences, influences on behavior and decisions, promoting cultural diversity, preparing resumes, clothing label laws, multisize patterns, and trends in housing.