We know that children need their basic skills in order to succeed. But for children to learn and keep learning in school, they need an important set of skills that are taught at home. These are the MegaSkills. They are our children"s inner engines of learning. Though reinforced in the classroom, they get their power from the home. MegaSkills are the very basic values, attitudes, and behaviors that determine a child"s achievements: confidence, motivation, effort, responsibility, initiative, perseverance, caring, teamwork, common sense, and problem solving.