Good training: iFixit director of communications pays tribute to a repair-focused mom

Kay Kay on the right, her mother Caroline on the left. (picture courtesy of Kay Kay Clapp) iFixit's Kay Kay Clapp has a lot to thank her mother for, not least her insistence that children should learn how to repair things. While Kay Kay's dad was traveling for work, her mom became a master at fixing and patching clothing and broken household items. Not every mom would want their 8 year-old daughter tackling dry wall repair, but as Kay Kay says, 'it's empowering to learn how to fix things yoursel...