of stubbornness, but because they remember what real, undivided attention felt like.
Knowing How to Fix Things Instead of Replacing Them
There was a time when broken didn’t automatically mean thrown away. A torn shirt got mended. A wobbly chair got repaired. A television on the fritz got opened up and tinkered with until it worked again. People took pride in knowing how to fix things with their own hands, passing those skills down from parent to child.
This mindset wasn’t just practical — it reflected a deeper value system built
