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GRANDMA is teaching my children how to knit. She is also teaching them how to cook and to sew.
This is good because if it were up to me, I would not have the time or the patience.
Truth be known, I do not have the knowledge to pass these skills to my children.
I do not cook, sew or knit. So thank goodness for grandma.
She has taught my children how to make a real sponge cake (not one from a packet) and how to tell if a scone dough is just right.
These lessons started early, almost from the time they were babies. Grandma would pop them up on her kitchen bench and together they would enjoy "cake Fridays" or spend the day making clothes for their dolls.
Her efforts are now paying dividends. The eldest child can put together the ingredients for a decent cake mixture on her own and the youngest is almost getting the hang of that knit-one, purl-one caper.
WE are not a sexist family; grandma has also taught her son and grandsons to cook and grand-dad Jacko can knit and do tapestries.
My own...