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Teach Your Kids to Knit
Five great reasons to teach your kids to knit - with some tips on how to get them started.
- You give them a skill they will have for life. Ok for now it may only be a 5 minute wonder and they ditch the needles for the next new thing. But once they know, like riding a bicycle they can go back to it at any time. A couple of years later they discover how they can help other children by knitting for charity; as a teenager they will find they can make unique clothes to stand out from the crowd; as a new auntie or uncle they find they want to make a special gift for a new niece or nephew; or for their own children they want to make something with pure love.
- "In teaching a child to knit, begin right". In the preface to her seminal Knitting Book, Mary Thomas explains the importance of learning the basics. Becoming proficient in a skill, any skill gives a child self confidence and so builds their self-esteem. Once a child learns the basics properly they can build on their knowledge as quickly or slowly as they want.
- Knitting is really cheap to learn. You don't need to buy special 'knitting kits' for kids. Knitting needles can be bought for pennies at charity shops and jumble sales. Yarn can be found at the same time, or in the bargain bin at the local yarn shop or department store. Or ask a knitter for an odd ball! They are always delighted to welcome another into the fold.
- It is something you can do together, in a group all working at your own level. For the beginner you can cast on for them, help them pick up their dropped stitches and cast off for them. An article in the New York Times in December 2003 describes how a teacher at a New Jersey (how appropriate!) elementary school began teaching a few children to knit as an activity for rainy break-times. So far over 250 people, children and adults have learnt to knit, the more experienced one helping the beginners to get started.
- Knitting is a great way to relax. The New Jersey school children described how knitting calmed them down, made them feel peaceful and how if they got mad they could take it out on their knitting. The repeated rhythms of knitting have well documented relaxing effects. Mary Thomas advises that "knitting should be done thoughtfully...that is its charm to our generation, who live with a wild helter-skelter of speed." If that was the feeling in 1948, imagine the benefits today when our world changes faster than Mary Thomas could ever have imagined.
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