Counsels on Health - Ellen G. White

you will certainly succeed.”
Many mothers do not realize the importance of
this branch of knowledge, and rather than have the
trouble and care of instructing their children and
bearing with their failings and errors while
learning, they prefer to do all themselves. And
when their daughters make a failure in their efforts,
they send them away, with, “It is no use, you can’t
do this or that. You perplex and trouble me more
than you help me.”
Thus the first efforts of the learners are
repulsed, and the first failure so cools their interest
and ardor to learn that they dread another trial and
will propose to sew, knit, clean house, anything but
cook....
Mothers should take their daughters with them
into the kitchen and patiently educate them. Their
constitution will be better for such labor; their
muscles will gain tone and strength, and their
meditations will be more healthy and elevated at
the close of the day. They may be weary, but how
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