do you let your children cook

My boys are now adults and I let them both cook,when they were kids.It is a great learning experience and a gret tool to have.Good thing to,because my youngest son's fiance does not know how to cook at all.I also have an 11 year old daighter who loves to cook also.

Hello suehan, I have no kids and I will just answer this according to my experience. LOL! When I was growing up, I will bother my mom a lot in our Kitchen and she will always tell me to do something else, like cleaning, preparing the table etc, which makes me not to learn anything but fried and only to make rice!LOL! This time I am still struggling to learn, so for me it is best if parents will expose their kids to the kitchen and let them do it by their own! It's a learning process for them!

My daughter loves to cook and would do it more but time is so short on school nights! But I always love the runny scrambled eggs in the morning! Now she is making brownies from scratch.

absolutely! what other way will they learn? imagine kids being 20 something and not know how to cook the simplest meals? our 15 year old can put a few meals together.

I tried to start mine, but neither were to crazy about it but on cookie day! I have an 8 year old grand daughter and I started teaching her when she was 2 - she memorized the cookie cut out recipe and other than the over part, she did it all! Then we went to macy cheese and grilled cheese and a few others to the time when she made her own fresh "squid"... she is a picky eater and in trying to get her to eat chicken, I let her pretend to be a dolphin and I "fed" the dolphin "squid", which was just homemade chicken nuggets! She loved them and then I got her to make them herself - dredge, egg dip and b read crumbs. Now my 2 yo I just taught her to make scrambled eggs! She loves it and got mad when I told her she couldn't do the stove part cause it was to hot, but she ogt over it when she saw them on the plate and enjoyed them! I think teaching them to cook asap is a good thing. I tried with my daughter, but she would just never get it (I am a "made from scrach" cooker) and she, I sadly say, didn't even know you could boil water in a microwave! We didn't have one for a long time and In only used it to heat things up, never to cook in, but I went to her apt and she was so proud of making jello but questioned why it didn't seem to melt the geletin very well. She didn't have any pots yet, so she said she "used the water hot as it would come out of the faucet". I asked her why she didn't just use one of hte corning ware bowls I'd given her? She said she didn't think they could go on the stove top. I told her, no, they go in the microwave... she said she didn't know you could boil water in the microwave!

Yes, my boy (age 13)is always encouraged to cook. And he likes cooking. The best food he cooks is fried rice with eggs.He likes to make fruit juices too !

Yes, I want them to feel comfortable working around the kitchen - to learn how to cook now so that later on when they are away from home they will be more prepared. my son is heading to college soon and he knows how to cook for himself, that will save him a bit of money. I also let them clean up afterwards but I think maybe they do not know they are allowed to because they keep leaving the mess for me!

I will let my children cook, the same like how my mom let me cook cakes and brownies. My family loves my cakes... everytime i finish to make my cake, i would slice it and put in large plate and serve it in the table. Let it stand for few minutes, and i will never find any part of my cake left!!! (last time, i even cant eat my part... wah! But its very fine for me, as long as my family loves my cake. The problem is, everytime i ask them how its taste, nobody will say its delicious or its not cooked well... All i know, there's nothing left in the table!!! And its more than cue that i was cooking it well. Have a nice day.

I have pictures of my kids with chairs pulled up to the counters helping me bake and cook. We loved our time together and they learned many new skills. Filling measuring cups, stirring in batter, sprinkling in spices, all those activities and more helped my kids learn a bit about mathematics, their fine motor skills were improved and it built their self-confidence knowing I trusted them in the kitchen. All three of my kids, two daughters and one son love to cook and do it well. I hate to cook.

Creativity has to be encouraged when children are young. It shouldn't all be left for school to teach. I grew up learning to cook and had a grandad who loved teaching us girls how to. He used to get us in a real mess! Mum or Gran thought so, the first thing they ever said to him was 'How could you let them get so messy?'lol We used to make sponge cakes in rainbow colours and it wasn't just the icing that was green! I was brought up with a mum and grandparents who encouraged us to learn new things and who found time to paint with us, or help us make things. They admired the icing, bravely ate the resulting hard pastry or the oversalted meat pie and made us feel like we were 'Michelin Star Chefs' I was the same with my children, it's a great way to bond with a child! Though I prefered getting the paint and paper out, and making a mess, to cooking. I've made my share of chocolate covered Cereal cakes as well though and at least flour brushes out of your hair! Have you ever eaten bright yellow and green marbled meringue? It tastes wonderful if you close your eyes! LOL I hope you spend many happy hours getting 'messy' with your future 'Masterchefs'.

Yes, he makes noodles and serves to us also.

well i dont have any child m not even married but i gt a very small sister and i have taken care of her like a child yes i do luve whenever she cooks anything 4 me...

i tell you one thing...if i ever had kids i would definitely let them cook once the reach a certain age. they have to learn sometime and myself, i enjoy cooking very much. Thats a love i would want to instill in my children at a very young age. thats what my mother did with us kids (i was adopted by my grandmother by the way) and i love to cook and my aunt, loves to bake and she ended up actually opening a successful business. so yeah...i would definitely let my children cook. cause you never know what that will lead to.

I would love to let my children have a go as they are getting older now but i'm scared of the mess they will make, they are always asking to do something in the kitchen and it is easy for me to get on with it. At least the summer holidays are coming up so i'll probably risk it then.

My kids have both been cooking for yrs now...they started off on the stove top almost 5 yrs ago then to the oven about 4 yrs ago and are now allowed to use the bbq too (but they arent allowed to light it)..My son isnt too into it but my daughter LOVES to cook and has actually prepared full meals for dinner for the family LOL I think its fabulous for kids to learn how do to things like cook, laundry, mend clothes, fix things etc etc....

I like to let the kids cook. It not only is good together time, but helps with fractions, which all of my kids seemed to have trouble with. It also help them with reading. Decorating desserts was always the most fun, it's amazing how creative kids can be.

Ohmigosh, cooking with my son is one of my favorite things to do. We have so much fun. He and my husband make pudding for dessert about twice a week and they both have so much fun..... it is the cutest thing to sit at a distance and watch. I also love to watch my son as he is pretend playing by himself and he starts cooking dinner for his pretend friends. He does things just as we do them together in the kitchen and it is so sweet. Sometimes I feel like I can tell a lot about myself as a mom by listen in on my son's pretend play.

My daughter is not yet 5. So I let her help. She helps to pour, and measure. She likes to stir and mix. I think she is getting a good cooking foundation. She enjoys helping her aunt the most. When she is old enough yes, I plan on letting her cook. Hopefully by that time she will still enjoy it.

I have no kid yet, but I have been a kid before,. When i was young, my mom sometimes will busy with her work. So she will let me learn to cook. I may not know how to cook, but my mom gave me the chance and taught me very well, she always support and encourage me. She will let me know I if I did the wrong thing. I'm really want to thank her, she gave me the chance and I learnt a lot from her. I love you, mom!

I surely would but it depends upon ho old they were. I think the 6 or 7 could be taught already how to do this specially on how to use the oven if they would bake. Well, if they are always with you when you are cooking something, that's a good plus for them to learn early how to cook. for me, I will allow them but of course I must be there to guide them until they were responsible enough to do it by themselves.