Were You Strong Enough To Do Housework?

My mother taught me to work. I used to ask my mother, “Why must I always do so much work before I play?” “It is to educate and train your mind for useful labor, and another thing, to keep you out of mischief; and when you get older, you will thank me for it.” When one of my little girls [a granddaughter] said to me, “Why must I knit? Grandmothers knit:” I replied, “Will you tell me how grandmothers learned to knit?” “Why, they began when they were little girls.” ^{5Child Guidance, 124.}LASW 10.2