A word of encouragement

Hi friends,
I just wanted to encourage all of you that have children in your home to teach them how to cook, clean, sew, garden, build, repair and all other skills that you know. It is hard to teach children sometimes.  It requires patience and repeated practice before they master a skill that you mastered a long time ago and can do in your sleep.  I can be tempted to think " I don't have time to teach that today, we're in a hurry" or " I just want some peace and quiet, I've taught all day, I just don't feel like teaching anything else today."  Time flies by as you all well know, and before you know it that eager learner will have grown up and left your home.  It will BLESS you beyond belief when your child takes over a task that you used to have to do and does it well.  As I type, my 13 year old daughter is making cookies for a co op that I'm teaching tomorrow.  It's late, I'm wiped out and I was going to scrap my cookie plans and do something else, when she eagerly offered to cook them because she LOVES to cook.  I've spent years teaching her how to cook and how to clean up after herself and now I'm reaping what I've sown.  Those early years of having her just pour in the flour or just stirring the batter progressed into teaching her "cooking language", reading recipes, planning menus and cooking the whole thing from start to finish and I don't even have to be in the room!  What a blessing!  So..... I encourage all of you to teach your children any life skills that you have mastered and also ask family members and friends to teach your children their skills/hobbies.