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.” {1T 685.1}

Mange mødre forstår ikke hvor vigtig det er for døtrene, at få en sådan undervisning. De foretrækker at gøre arbejdet selv i stedet for at vise overbærenhed med deres fejl og tålmodig vise dem hvordan arbejdet gøres. Og når døtrene ikke mestrer at gøre arbejdet tilfredsstillende, sender mødrene dem bort og siger: "Nej, dette nytter nok ikke! I lærer det aldrig! I hæmmer mig mere end I hjælper mig!"