An Offer/JMIT Babble

[debka_notion]

(Because I'm a Jewish Mother In Training) I'm noticing a distinct lack of household skills in a number of folks I know, of late- in things that I always thought of as really basic: cleaning, cooking, basic mending (sewing buttons). I feel like I should offer some sort of basic hosuekeeping lessons for a number of my friends. Today I gave a basic demonstration of resewing buttons. As far as I know, this is something I learned from my mother before I started high school, possibly before middle school. Certainly she started me sewing "straight" lines around age 6- it was a real treat too, because we could only sew with her supervision, so when she made the time to do so, it was very exciting. I've been cleaning for longer than that: it isn't hard, you just keep scrubbing, unless you're doing walls or something like that.

If anyone is interested in lessons or the like- aka, chances to get help mending or making pleasing food, let me know.


Outside of that, I had a quiet day- slept in, called home, did work, editted Hebrew: all the usual Sunday stuff. Life continues.

Comments

[jessebeller.livejournal.com]

once the cognitive leap as been made that says that buttons, if loose, can be resewn, most people i know can figure out how to get some thread on a needle and poke the thing through a shirt in the right place. they'd most of them probably do it even better the second time.

same thing with cooking, although with a steeper learning curve. once youve got the whole making things hot cooks them bit, its just a matter of making enough things hot to figure it out.

i wonder if there is such a thing that is unlearnable unless someone teaches you. certainly there are things that cannot be taught, but i would strongly doubt that anything relies exclusively on teaching for the learning.