(Etan helping his Grandpa with woodworking)
(Harmony with her cousin Wyatt and Grandma working on a sewing project)
I am very old fashioned in the way I think. It also comes about in the way I raise my kids. Having only one girl, I feel the need to teach her homemaking skills...Cleaning, laundry, cooking, crafts etc.
However, having 4 boys, I feel that the skills they need, are taught more by their dad. Although with him being deployed or gone often, I also have to teach them those skills. Taking out the trash, caring for the lawn, being gentleman...but also cleaning up, cooking and being the "man of the house". Each boy has helped me to pump gas at least once.
I thought it was very interesting, while at my parents house, how the kids naturally went to their Grandparents and helped/were taught new skills.
I know that both genders need to learn both sets of skills, in case they are on their own for awhile, but I just found this interesting.
**BTW- yes I do realize that while I am talking about gender roles etc, that the picture of my mom and daughter, there is a BOY, he was actually just playing with the pins)
