A Whole New Level of Home Making

There are a lot of resources out there for teaching kids cooking, cleaning and care of the home. Many of these are targeted to the Christian homeschool market, with mothers and daughters specifically in mind.

But how about this: Mommy drywalls the new bedroom, sands it and paints it.

That's a whole other way of looking at home "making"! But it's an important one. In our house, stuff like this happens because A) Daddy couldn't possibly do it all himself, plus work a full-time + overtime job, and B) Daddy likes building things, but not the finishing work.

So it fell to either me or the professionals to put the finishing touches on our basement reno (Part 1, Part 2). Since we don't have the money to hire professionals.... I got to role-model an important life skill to my kids, and in particular my girls.

I know there are also plenty of guys out there who are hopeless with construction and renovation, but as a woman, I want my girls to know they're capable of taking on things that some would consider "guy" tasks. In my experience, things like this come naturally when role modelled by the parents. For example, I never considered critical thinking unusual or arcane, because it was modelled in my childhood home through discussion and active social participation.

That's life-led learning. You tackle what life throws at you, and let your kids watch you at it.