Passing it on

The other day my three-year-old daughter asked me to help her crochet something. Of course she has seen me do it constantly for all of her young life, and has often wanted to play with my hooks and play with my yarn (kitten-like), but has never asked to make something. So I took her in my lap, gave her a large hook, held the yarn myself, and showed her very slowly how to make the hook go around the yarn and through the loop. She grasped the concept right away and we made a necklace of chains, with her doing the hook work very nearly all by herself. She was SO proud, but I think I was prouder. :)