What Skills or Interests Did You Pass to Your Children?

fureverywhere

fureverywhere

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I'm just taking a break from yard work. Something I've discovered is that youngest daughter has the gardening gene. None of her brothers or sisters ever stepped foot in the yard. But she enjoys it and does it really well. Her school often takes the class outside to plant things. They have class room plants too. She came home with a whole box of them one day. All I have to do is point her towards the tools and she ready.

I learned everything about plants from my Dad. Our yard and house was a jungle indoors and out. My Mom left the green thumb to Dad. But she taught me needlework, Amish desserts, how to stand up for yourself, and to be passionate about cats and books. My son's and I share books, musical suggestions, an interest in military history, and of course a passion for cats and books. Even my older girls were readers...so I done good.

What did you teach your kids?:):):)
 

Treating animals with respect and this includes wild backyard critters. Kids are thrilled to have a better relationship with animals when they've learned to handle them properly.
Also how to speak correctly. Speech = communication and communication is of paramount importance in life. Also being polite and courteous to everyone, especially seniors. :eek: Good question, Fur. This one made me think.
 
No kids to pass talents and traits on to, but my mother passed on to me some of her talent at sewing and at cooking. I am by no means as good as she was, but then she did both all her life and I haven't, but it always makes me feel both surprised and happy when I find I can sew something and have it turn out well, or experiment at cooking and it goes OK. She used to get so frustrated trying to teach me to sew, but something must have rubbed off on me.

What also really surprises me is that my father's talent for math pops out unexpectedly in me sometimes. Basic arithmetic, really, but sometimes when doing it I will suddenly "get" something and a sum suddenly makes sense to me. It never did when I was a child and THAT frustrated HIM.

I have always known I inherited his love of horses and apparently some of his talent, and both my parents' musical abilities.
 
I'm very proud of my daughter's interest in volunteerism, especially with women's shelters. I didn't know about it until a year or two ago, how involved she was. Also the way she treats everyone equally and with respect.
 
My husband taught the boys outdoorsy things... fishing, hunting, how to operate a lawnmower safely and cut the lawn, how to do little things related to the maintenance and mechanics of a car, etc.

Myself, I taught my daughters how to care for baby siblings, everything from making homemade baby formula, to folding and changing cloth diapers, to bathing a baby, how to sew on a button, cook simple and easy meals, do laundry, etc.

Just basic everyday things, but all things that they could take with them and apply in the real world once they were out on their own, and in my daughters case, I didn't allow them to take on any babysitting jobs outside the home until they had ample experience caring for their baby brothers.
 
Both of my children are artists. My daughter excels in metaphysics. My son has my excitement about life.
When I talk on the phone with them ,they will say something of such incredible wisdom, followed by, "You taught me that, Mom!" Wow!
They both have strength of character, integrity, goodness. and they are both much more intelligent than me.
Anywhay, I intensly proud of both of my children! Makes me feel I did something GOOD!
 
Taught them how to prepare basic meals, do basic mending, and do their own laundry.
Something that was more ‘caught’ than taught was the classical music DVDs I played and the many Jane Austen adaptations we watched. Most of my kids participated in Quiz Bowl in high school and there’s usually a J Austen question, so they knew the answers 😁
 
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