Father and Son

I think the best way to teach children the basic skills of life is to have them work right along side you. I try to keep the girls next to me when I am cooking and cleaning. I haven’t been super great at that the last little while, but recently I had a great reminder.

I am very grateful to Dadzoo’s grandpa, he learned many basic skills from watching him. When things would break around the house grandpa would come to help fix them. From his grandpa Dadzoo learned the basics of machinery and construction. Dadzoo is a wonderful handyman, I don’t think there is anything he can’t do. He has fixed washing machines and dryers and my dishwasher more than once. He can do basic automotive repairs (he doesn’t like to work on cars and would rather pay someone else to do it, but I like the fact that he could if he wanted to) he can do electrical work and some pluming. He finished two rooms in our basement and had built me rabbit hutches, chicken coops and shutters for the house. If there is anything he doesn’t know how to do, he finds out and tackles it.

About a week ago Dadzoo’s car died on us. He couldn’t drive to work so he did a “work from home” day. The nice thing about that is in between projects and problems he can putter around the house and do odd jobs and such. My dishwasher had been having a slight problem so he needed to take the door apart to figure stuff out.

Baby Boy punk couldn’t stay away. The second the tool box was brought out he was right there investigating what was going on. Dadzoo was wonderful and patient, I really enjoyed watching Father and Son bond over a tool box!

When the investigation was over and Dadzoo went to put the door back together he gave Baby Boy punk a tool to “help” with. You can see that he got right to work on those screws, just like his Daddy.

He did notice really quickly that his tool wasn’t exactly the same as Dad’s.

And turned to the tool box to find the “proper” tool.

He came back with this: a screwdriver, just like his Dad was using. (Smart kid!)

Then promptly got to work helping his Dad screw in those screws.

9 thoughts on “Father and Son

  1. This was really funny. The screws were star head. The first tool was a regular screwdriver. He noticed that mine had a different type of head on it, so he dug through the tool box until he found one that was the same.

    Smart little guy.

  2. Too cute. I love watching my boy work with his dad. Good for Dadzoo being so patient!

  3. So cute! We have some cute pictures of Red when he was about 12 months old helping his dad build me some bookshelves. He now has his own little toolbox and whenever he sees his dad get tools out, Red runs to get his toolbox.

  4. I have such great memories of my boys and their dad doing these very things. This is so cute.

  5. What a little smarty pants! Mike is so good to let him “help”…what precious memories!