ANYWAY, what I wanted to say is that we have struggled with this on a more personal basis. My girls are pretty hands on and tend to not pay attention to details like…how to SAFELY use the power drill… while wanting to do everything themselves, and happily step in and just do it anyway. (Both of them would have stopped the boys without question and said, “No, I will do it myself thank you.” However, my brother (age 18) has had to learn to back off before a fight ensues. He knows how to use power tools well (as do I since my mom and dad built the house we lived in growing up and we learned by helping, constantly) but the girls don’t even want a demonstration. Meanwhile they often take over for their little brother, and so he is learning from them to just take over and do. So in our case it has kind of backfired. And now I am having to teach him specifically to back off because yes they too know how to play with Legoes or whatever other project he is insisting they can’t do.
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