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A proud grandmother's story:

With the guidance and help of 'Distance Pilot Study' I teach my grandson to embroider. This sometimes raises the eyebrows and brings forth the question 'why teach a boy a thing like that?'

My answer: 'So one day if he chooses to be a surgeon he can be a good one'.

You see, I taught my son to embroider and when he became a novice surgeon he was very proud of his built-in-skill to sew people together.

'I don't tell the 'raised eyebrows' that there are other more important reasons to teach people embroidery'.

It keeps alive their childhood creativity which is often suppressed in unavoidably regimented schooling. It teaches the child patience and introduces the calm often achieved with the needle and the thread in one's hand.

It teaches the joy of achievement 'I have made this and and there isn't another piece of craft like this in the whole wide world.'

I would very much like to see many, many other children participating in and benefiting from learning embroidery.