STATON: Involve me and I will remember
Published 10:33 am Thursday, October 3, 2019
A Chinese proverb says, “Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.”
For me I have to be both shown and involved for me to learn more quickly.
All of the above will happen when you become a member of a Clark County Homemakers Group.
The benefits are endless.
In a homemakers, group you will learn many lessons from the University of Kentucky that will help you in your daily life.
You learn quite a lot from the lesson sheets handed out to you to look at in a homemaker meeting. However, if you are the person who went to take the class and are the one to give that lesson at the next homemaker meeting for your group, you learn more, and it usually stays with you for the rest of your life. You became involved.
Homemakers has a way of involving people no matter what their interests are.
Each year the homemaker clubs get to choose from a list of the lessons that sound most interesting to them. These lessons are useful and helpful.
I had to laugh when I thought back to when I first learned about a microwave oven through a homemaker lesson. I absolutely had to have one.
Oct 13-18 is Kentucky Extension Homemakers Association week. Clark County will have an open house from 5 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 17.
If you have always wanted to join a homemaker group come out on that night to get to meet and greet some homemakers. This event will be held at the Clark County Extension Office.
If you have been thinking about joining a club this would be a perfect time to do so.
There are daytime groups and also night groups for those who work.
In the meetings themselves you can make lifelong friends. My homemaker friends are some of my dearest friends.
The skills I have learned in homemakers have benefited me throughout my life. I would recommend it to any newcomer in town.
I am inviting you to my club that meets on the second Wednesday of each month. It is the Towne and Country Homemakers. We meet at 11:30 a.m. and have lunch together and a lesson is given from the University of Kentucky each month.
I have to warn you, we laugh and talk a lot and the time flies by.
I have learned to crochet, knit and do crafts through homemakers.
There are craft classes available if crafts are your interest.
There are paint classes if you enjoy painting.
There are recipes given out often if you love to cook.
A homemaker group offers so much.
You meet other women throughout the county.
It is a great way for a newcomer in Clark County to meet others.
The benefits are endless.
There is something for everyone in homemakers. There is a club in Clark County waiting on you to join. You will not regret you did.
Sue Staton is a Clark County native who grew up in the Kiddville area. She is a wife, mother and grandmother who is active in her church, First United Methodist Church, and her homemakers group, Towne and Country Homemakers.