When we train our children to help out everyone benefits
By the time we’ve reached Simchas Torah many women are on such a spiritual high that they can barely concentrate anymore on mundane things like cooking and cleaning. At least this is the reason one woman gave me for why she wasn’t going to make even one more meal or sweep one more floor until Pesach. Fortunately for her she had trained her children to be quite competent in the kitchen. And you can do the same.
Kids and Kitchens
Kids like to eat in kitchens. Kids like to play in kitchens while their mothers cook and clean. But did you know that kids also like to cook and clean in kitchens? Because some people don’t know this they don’t give their children opportunities to develop their culinary and domestic skills. Later on they get really mad at these same children for not having such skills.
It’s perfectly understandable that once the family has grown and the older children have also grown mothers need and expect some help. Moreover they want this help to come easily and maybe even enthusiastically (would that be asking too much?). Unfortunately those who fail to prepare their kids in advance are unlikely to get any such thing.
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