I have been researching ways to teach my daughter the homemaking and life skills I think she needs to know, and everything I find is Christian-based. It is frustrating when my own beliefs are no where near. I do not need scripture to be a fabTABulous homemaker. Anyway, I found a few Christian-based curriculum and thought about buying them and just ignoring the scriptures, but I remembered the Friends of the Library Used Book Store around the corner. So I went to bed, with the help of Nyquil (damn cold and elevated temp), and went to the book store today.
SOOO glad I did! I found ten books for a total of $5! That is a savings of over $40 from what I was about to spend last night. Now I just need to write out a plan geared toward her age and grow it from there. I might end up writing a book on Pagan Homemaking Skills. If anyone has ideas of what they would have liked to know growing up, let me know.
So far the list is:
Cooking
Cleaning
Baking
Preserving
Sewing
Candlemaking
Clay Working
Budgeting
Meal Planning
Gardening
Herbal Remedies
That is all I can think of. But man, the ideas running throgh my head right now are so plentiful! Each one of those categories could be a book section, or even have a series of books where each is a book. Hmmm....comments?
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