Soft skills account for 85% of success in careers as compared to 15% of our success coming from academic and technical skills. They also predict happiness, health, and financial security. Parents can amplify the benefit of homeschooling and make sure their children are ready for college, a job or a technical program by adding a focus on developing soft skills. Soft skills require habit development and repeated exposure and practice with skills related to social engagement, critical thinking, time, task and responsibility management, stress regulation, goal attainment and other critical soft skills.