Needle and Thread phobia

[Lee-Bee]

I spent many a Saturday morning when I was 12 having sewing lessons from my aunt. I don't sew often but can put together a piece of clothing, a quilt and fix things up around the house.

My sewing machine now a days is just a cheap basic model but it does the job. I pull it out so infrequently though that I end up struggling with the darn thread tension and forget with way the darn bobbins need to be threaded that I have to pull out the manual to remember. Which makes the task tedious!

I frequently pull out the thread and needle to fix things or take things in for my daughter. Such a simple yet useful skill. A skill most children these days won't be taught.

Along a similar note one of my greatest disappointments in high school was when I finally got to take the Home Ec cooking class. I was SOOOOO excited. Till the first class. I drop the class that day and took an extra math class (for fun). The cooking class was seriously sooooooooo simple it was mind boggling. A whole class devoted to making pasta...not the sauce like literally how to boil noodles. By high school I could prep a whole lasagna from scratch. I didn't even come from a family that had a stay at home mom that devoted her day to cooking. My mom worked...we ate decent but she somehow managed to teach me to cook solid meals. I couldn't believe high schoolers hadn't yet attempted to boil noodles!

I'd be curious to see what a home ec cooking class looks like these days in high school. A full class on microwaving cup-a-soup?