Whenever my kids ask me to do something for them, I always try to show them how to do it themselves. They can both quote this line, because I've been saying it to them since they were little: "Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, and he eats for a lifetime."
Today Noah asked me to sew a spot in his shirt that he had ripped. I showed him how to thread a needle and make the repair. Later he came to me with the gash ripped open again, and he said, "Our fish got away..."
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