Growth of the child ??

We all want our children to grow up to be independent, successful individuals who can take care of themselves. How will we ensure this ? What can we do today, so that our children become competent in taking care of their lives and also the people around them in future. We can in fact build life skills in our children in our day to day interactions with them. How ?
Ok.let's say we want our children to start thinking in various ways for a problem. Then when you have a problem, ask the child how will we go about solving it.
eg: there is no gift wrap paper for the gift we have to take for the party and no time to go buy the paper.
Now the child will come with various options--- eg:bag, make a bag, news paper, painted paper, flowers, leaves etc.( choose something from this so that the child knows that they are do-able)
Here you are developing a skill, where in the child learns that there is no one way of doing things after all !
As an adult , create situations or when there are situations involve the child in solving the problem.
Show the child that he is capable of making decisions and putting them into action . Eg: let him decide what he wants to wear when going for a party even though you think that's not the best. Let him decide his snacks and lunch he wants to take. Let him decide the menu for a party . Execute it , so that he takes pride in his decision and would do more of it.
Many more... any skill you want the child to have, see if there is any situation , let the child take charge of it as far as possible.
Skills you can foster -- independence, creative thinking, problem solving ability, ability to work with somebody, leadership ability, planning and organising , resilience (fallback mechanism), etc ..