When I was a kid, about 9 or 10, my mother taught me to type. As a teenager, she had gone to secretarial college and had become a legal secretary typing up documents for lawyers before getting married.

I learned on a manual typewriter. I was the weird kid who typed up school reports on a manual typewriter before computers were widespread.

Along with basic sewing, it's one of the most useful things my mother taught me. We should teach every schoolchild to touch type.