Traditional Teaching Style - Delores Taken Alive - OSEU #4

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We were taught how to work and so like say we forgot and we made a mistake, our father would always say or he'll either ask us to sit down with him or talk wherever we were and made that mistake. He will say, you know, you had forgotten how I taught you and so I'm going to tell you all over again and hoping that you will not make that same mistake again. They didn't get after us or he wasn't angry at us for making that mistake but he'll tell us again or he'll show us again and by living, you know, that kind of example, I learned a lot and of course, you know, that's outside work that our father teaches us how to work and then our mother inside, she also teaches us how to work. She always says to us, well, my girls, the dishes are still waiting, you know, these dishes have no legs, they'll be just sitting there waiting for you and, you know, in a nice way like that never really get after us so we start doing our dishes but of course, you know, we always take turns. Are you going to do the washing or drying and we always take turns but of course, we always have to warm up the water and do the dishes so that's how our mother treated us and then she taught us how she taught us how to make bread, how to even boil water before you make your soup, so things like that, you know, or boil your water before you make your tea or coffee so little things like that. I still do that. I still boil my water before I make my oatmeal so things like that they taught us. They never really get mad at us for making a mistake. They just say, okay, this is how they tell us again.