"But the younger women don't know how to"

My grandmother taught me to bake cakes and hand stitch, but other simple domestic skills that women of prior generations were taught by their mothers and took for granted, I never learned - like how to iron stuff properly (I just don't), how to sew my own clothes, how to knit or crochet, even how to properly clean a home, were never taught me. I have taught myself to cook from scratch, but that was something even my own mother never learned to do herself until later in life! I'm still an appallingly poor cleaner and I never have figured out how to get rid of dust and hairs in a bathroom! Crazy really. I often wish I could whisk up a magic fairy aunty (I don't have any) to patiently demonstrate to me the 'how to' of such things!