Do your kids have "shop" class at their school?

I'm afraid most Americans today would answer that question in the negative. There are still schools that offer something, but their importance has largely been neglected.

Unfortunately, even many home school families fail to provide training in the manual arts. Girls will do some cooking with their mothers or even fathers in some homes that still actually cook. Boys will still try to fix broken things around the home. And of course there are boys who cook and girls who fix things.