5 good reasons to introduce our grandchildren to our passions

5 good reasons to introduce our grandchildren to our passions

They have their world, we have ours. So who said that these two parallel universes could never meet?

We discovered ceramics many years ago. Moreover, some of our productions proudly stand proud in the dresser of the salon. So, the day our grandson asks us, "What's this goblet? We can answer him: "Oh! Nothing, it's me who did it. And we can even offer him to accompany us to learn to knead something other than modeling clay!

We offer them the chance to know

Let's not be afraid of words: in the light of their codes, our passions, the art of stained glass or pottery tour, come from another time, even from another planet! If we do not teach them these ancestral practices, we do not see who will do it. They do not have to like, let alone take classes for a whole year! But to point the nose once in their life in a workshop is to give them the chance to know (what it is, if they like it ...).

We anchor them in the real world

We must leave room for imagination if we want to see it unfold. Give him an indefinite space dedicated to daydreaming and suspended time. Now this temporality escapes them more and more. Phones, screens, games ... they overflow and nibble the interstices. So, far more than just a discovery tour, taking them to the knitting club is a way to get them back into real life.

Barriers are blown up

Ah! Of course, the average age of woodcarving classes is slightly over twenty ... But that's what's great! We dynamite the borders, we show them that old people like us can also be funny, attentive, creative, painful, in short, like them! And for more fun, we debrief after: laughs guaranteed.

We reconcile them with the infinitely precise

We, we control gestures that change the thumb that slides on the screen ... Go, we exaggerate a little but what activity today allows them to develop their thoroughness? To apply while leaving the school? Here they are free, nothing is noted, evaluated, everything takes place in benevolence. They continue to learn and reclaim lost gestures.

We alleviate their anxieties

One of the great benefits of this kind of activity is that it helps to forget about your worries. We are only in the moment, kneading clay or gluing mosaic tiles. And that, even Generation Z needs it!