Then she picked up an eraser, and began erasing her errors, along with my comments, then writing in her corrections. The hardest subject for me to teach my kids is writing. Late last fall I decided to teach myself Fair Isle knitting, and my newest endeavor at that time was to knit an over-sized sweater for Saoirse, using colors she’d chosen. Incidentally, as her arguments about re-drafting grew shorter and shorter, the sleeves on Saoirse’s sweater grew longer and longer. I’m going to take the sweater apart, unravel all the extra length on the sleeves, then put it back together again.”“No!” Saoirse began to cry.