Ready!: 99 Must-Have Skills For The World-Conquering Teenager

by Roopa Pai

Want to be part of an elite squad of remarkable young people who call themselves the WoCoTeens – World Conquering Teenagers?

All you need to do is crack the 99 fundamental – and fun – life skills outlined in this book, and win all the 24 Merit Badges and 4 Shields inside! The best part? You only compete with yourself!

By the time you’re through, you will own skills as diverse as washing undies to petitioning for change in your community, making a cup of chai to setting up a sick room, doing a perfect Surya Namaskar to telling time without an electronic device – even at night!

Written by best-selling author Roopa Pai in her unmatchable style, this book packs in all the basic requirements, in short, that will enable you to be a hero to yourself – and a role model to your peers.

Are. You. Ready!?

336 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2017

Reviews

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best non-fiction book for teenagers ever!! Taught me so much about real world problems and how to deal with them, how to take care of myself, how to take care of those around me, and basically grow into a responsible and independent young adult.

[Promita Bhowmick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tweens, pre teens and teens are the most challenging phase to deal with, when it comes to parenting. The not so young children are often confused about what to do and what not, and the parents cannot make them understand things, may be because of the generation gap? The peer pressure and the world around us, holds children back to listen to their parents’ suggestions/advice. I always feel books make a huge difference in our lives, and in this case filling the gap between parents and children. Roopa Pai has done an incredible job by writing this book called ‘Ready’. A step by step guide for teens and pre teens to come out of their confused zone and read, select, and go ahead with doing things according to their area of interest. Can you believe, this book has 99 skills that one can learn about, starting from taking care of yourself to learning a new language, and learning to be care giver to understand how the economy works. Every skill has a detailed information on how to go ahead with it, and some do’s and dont’s, and a challenge to perform it. The challenge is of course different from other usual challenges like doing 100 suryanamaskars in a day. The challenge is to ask an adult to demonstrate and teach somethings to the children so that they can perform it better. And what’s more, one can also achieve the badges as per the skills excelled, printed at the end of the book. The book is written in such a fun yet informative way. I was astonished to see so many skills for children to learn, which will help them in preparing for life situations, which is very crucial in today’s world. Honestly, even I could never think about so many skills for my son, who is going to step into the stage of pre teens very soon. Roopa has clearly a style which no one can match. I was so impressed by her Gita for Children, and this one is another book which will not only help my son, but also me in many ways. I would highly recommend this book for parents as well as teens to understand and acquire some or all life skills mentioned in it. You never know your teen can become a world conqueror, rightly mentioned in the book.