When I think back 50 years to my days in grade school, I was not very good in shop (or "Manual Training" as it was called in my school). However, I probably would have excelled at Home Economics, but back then, taking Home Ec was not an option for boys... even girly boys like me.
Too bad. I would have made someone an excellent wife.
Agreed - I would have benefited from cooking and sewing MUCH more than trying to bang a nail into a board 7 times before I could get it to go in straight. I'm glad times are changing.
ReplyDeleteMy shop skills improved with age especially after I bought a house.
DeleteWhen I was in sheet metal shop in HS, I had flights of fancy about how much I would prefer Home Ec.
ReplyDeleteI so wanted to go across the hall and join the girls in the Home Ec room!
DeleteStana, you can still be your woman's wife.... I'm sure you'd be a fine one
ReplyDeleteMy SO has remarked on a number of occasions that I should have been the housewife and mother in our family because I am a natural at it.
DeleteAm I the only one who is ambidextrous? I LOVED building things, but I also LOVED the arts! Thank you, Stana, for a great post. And, may you find your domestic goddess self in your dreams whenever you can't be her in your waking hours.
ReplyDeleteLike I wrote in another reply, "My shop skills improved with age especially after I bought a house." And I lost count how many electronic projects I built --- some of them even worked!
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ReplyDeleteLike Lisa, I was on both sides of the field. I did shop, stage crew, and lots of techie stuff in jr. high and high school. I also longed to go to home ec with my friends, but was of course banned by convention. However, my wonderful mom, who was most talented (and who I'm sure wanted a girl), taught me to cook, clean, sew, and, when I was still very young, how to put on lipstick, how to properly paint fingernails, how garters work, etc. Ahh, sweet memories.
Rhonda
Intentionally or not, my mother brought out the girl in me in the way she raised me.
DeleteI was terrible in shop. I wanted to take Home Ec so bad. You use to love to kit while watching baseball games on TV. Too bad my parents (Dad) made me stop.
ReplyDeleteDads are like that!
Deleteyes yes yes i always wanted to have been allowed to take home economics i wanted to learn what the girls learned how to cook and sew!
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