Recently, I've been musing over the idea that children of this generation, in the age of such huge technological advances, are becoming less and less adept at handling the normal every day tasks and routines that require them to use basic, fundamental tools. As an example, I present the case of the "old school" tube of toothpaste. My children have become accustomed to the wonderful containers they make for toothpaste that stand upright and automatically push your toothpaste to the top of it's reservoir when you squeeze it. Heaven forbid you should give them an actual tube of toothpaste and expect them to know how to utilize it. That's why for today's blog, I'd like to focus on the lost art of "tube rolling" (see example on right).

For those of you that might have forgotten this procedure from the days of yore, I have put together some helpful tips. I've added a few especially aimed toward my kids. OK... they are all aimed towards my kids.
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