There are things we learn in the house almost without realizing it, until one day we find out that someone never had a person to ask how to do it.
How do you sew a button? How does laundry work properly? How do you bend a sheet with the corners? How do you prepare a simple dish or make an appointment with your doctor?
In 2020, a mother of six children decided to transform years of daily experience into something that could also be useful to perfect strangers.
That's how Mom channel was born, How Do I?, literally Mom, how do I?
The idea was simple: to calmly explain those small skills of life that are often not taught at school because it is assumed that someone, sooner or later, will show them at home.
In its contents they found space very different activities: doing laundry, sewing, cooking, woven hair, fixing a sheet or facing some impending adult life.
Then the comments came.
There were people who lost their mother. Others had grown without someone to ask those questions. Others were adults who, for the first time, could learn without being judged because they did not know something considered elementary.
And that's where a simple tutorial took on a different meaning.
For those who had someone next door, certain teachings may seem insignificant. They are repeated gestures so many times to become automatic.
For someone else, instead, finding a person who says with patience “it does so” can fill a small gap remained open for years.
Because some of the lessons that accompany us longer do not come from a book.
They come to someone who once stopped the time to show us how to do it.
What is a little thing about everyday life that you are still grateful to someone for teaching you?