"Somewhere along the way we replaced curiosity with spreadsheets" This sentence made me really depressed. I'm not kid, but at 30 something years I discovered woodworking and I was never this happy to have such a cool hobby

How did you end up learning woodworking?

We do Waldorf School because they teach community and hands on skills like knitting, woodworking, archery, art, performance, cooking, music and language. #waldorfschool

I am of the opinion that if you are going to live in a house and drive a car, you should understand basic house and car maintenance and repairs. Even if you choose not to do it yourself, you'll have enough understanding to hire and supervise help without getting taken advantage of. That would include: check fluids, tires, belts. Change tires, oil, fuses, wiper blades, light bulbs. How to frame a wall. Hang a door. Install a windiw. Install, patch, and paint drywall. Install a light fixture and receptacle. Crimp pex, glue PVC, sweat copper pipe. Shingle a roof. Clean a dryer vent. Sweep a chimney. Believe it or not, they covered most of that in my high school drivers Ed and shop classes.

Basic electronics. Ohms law, light an LED on a breadboard, conceptual understanding of volts and amps, DC vs AC.

Those are good, basic, easy things. Thanks for your reply!

Great input! So basic ‘living in the physical world’ skills! I’m taking notes! It sounds like your shop class was way better than mine. Back in the day!

Is it an actual school they go to?

This is just my perspective, but one of the very few things I really enjoyed as a kid was playing an instrument.. guitar first, then drums as a teenager. I believe that growing up a bit rough, music kept me out of trouble. Even when you don’t have a great ambitions, there is still a lot to gain: - thanks to practicing you develop sense for systematically getting thigs done - musicians, like other artists, might develop complicated personalities, but during the high school years, most of them are still OK (also musicians/artists are usually nice people in general), so it’s likely you find yourself a good set of friends. Plus you practice dealing with complicated people as they’re slowly turning into the damn artist clichés 😂 - playing in a band keeps you occupied so you don’t mess with stuff like alcohol and drugs in a forbidden alley somewhere... worst case - you mess with that with people you trust in a safe space of your rehearsal room - being a musician and receiving positive feedback on something I put a ton of time into helped me manage low self-esteem - which is a shitty state to deal with during the teenage years - bonus benefit of being a drummer is that you get to get the best girls there are - not the fancy showy barbies that usually go after guitarists, or the pretty but weird types that end with bass players and definitely not the psychos who are chasing singers. No sir, drummers usualy get the rare combination of pretty AND smart.

Interesting facts about the music scene! 🤔 Music definitely connects you with the creative side of yourself. Thank you for your contribution!

It is. Small, about 100 students on a beautiful campus in the forest.

During the renovation of my newly bought house, the company that brought the tiles, left the pallet. I wondered what I could do with if and asked my father in law for a jigsaw. It's been a journey since that day, I have my own shop and I build stuff for fun using the old fashioned woodworking methods and techniques.

Awesome! You just jumped right into it. Looks great! Thanks for the reply.

This is the guy that started the Waldorf schools' philosophy.

Rudolf Steiner - Wikipedia

I think kids need to learn something that is a struggle for them. It can be something they pick, like an instrument or how to make something, really anything. This experience usually happens naturally in life, but often I notice younger parents protect kids from the struggle instead of supporting them through the struggle....They need to experience what its like to push through it and get the feeling of accomplishment at the end.

Are you a fan? Some people dislike him but I find he’s palatable with context.

That is something that I think about. Kids aren’t allowed to have struggle in life. To me that is the best way to learn. You must learn the feeling of busting your knuckles on the rusty headers of an old 66 mustang (don’t ask me how I know) to know what not to do next time. It builds an intuition that is invaluable and carries on to other pursuits. Thanks for your reply!

No, not a fan. My son went to a Waldorf school for a couple years. He needed the time outside just being a kid after 5 years of chemo. His first year, the teacher was awesome. Exactly, what he needed. She retired and the school struggled to find a teacher. They had three in one year. the second year, the weird spiritual side was becoming apparent with the school and the teacher who stayed was very pushy with it. I started researching it and was a bit appalled. So, at the end of the year, he was done. I think of it a wolf in sheep clothing. I hold strongly to a Christian world view and was very uncomfortable.