Have you taught your children to cook a meal for you ?

My kids are too young to cook.My daughter who is seven years old can peel potatoes and cucumbers only !! My eleven years old son can make a maggi ,pasta , fry eggs ,and can also make tea but when he enters the kitchen he makes it look like a garbage room !!All utensils are out , racks becomes messy ,everthing is upside down !!He enjoys cooking but his enjoyment results in my anger .Whenever he says he want to make something ,i decline his polite request . How old are your kids ?

I wish I had instituted a cooking night for each of my children; I tried, but didn't push it. I did, however, teach them all to cook. Only one of the three really enjoys cooking, and she does it well. The other two just enjoy eating and having food prepared for them. My oldest daughter does an excellent creamed spinach with leeks, nutella crepes, and a lemon German pancake on a regular basis and at some holidays. So, the best I can say for now is that my granddaughter cooks WITH me as she's too young to cook for me just now. But, you are fortunate and it is a great idea and perfect training for youngsters!

My son isn't old enough to cook a meal yet. He does like to pull a chair up in the kitchen beside of me and try to help me cook. I will let him mix stuff that is in a bowl and simple things like that. He helped me make jello a little bit ago. He's only 3 so he finds the simple things fun right now. I'm sure I will teach him how to cook a meal for us when he gets older though. He loves helping me make a cake cause he will stir it and after it is transferred to the pan he will lick the spoon and he loves doing that. lol

My parent taught us only the basic things like how to clean fish, cook rice, cut chicken, but never how to cook a real meal. that we have to learn ourselves. My mother insisted us to do the kitchen work since we were in primary school. i was in year 5 when i started to cook while my eldest sister started earlier when she was in year 3. Now she is a better cook than any of us, she can even make her own recipes. I am less like her, i cook only healthy food but my parents like it because my dad has hypertension so he is advise not to eat salty food. Not that i don't know any other recipe but I only make them during special occasion. I am very thankful to my mum, if not for her i might not know how to cook at all.

I don't have kids yet but I could relate about this post by thinking of my mom when I was a kid. I could say that my mom loved and cared for me in a way that she wanted me to have a very comfortable life.So basically, she made me be like a princess while she does all things for me.She has never taught me how to cook thinking that I would burn myself.Not even how to vacuum the floor because she think I can't manage to manipulate the vacuum cleaner.In short, she does everything for me.Now that I became older,I have to learn it by myself which I could say a bit late already.I can learn how to cook of course but with great difficulty for me. i should have learned it when I was a kid and growing up.So if ever I would have a kid,I would try to teach her/him little by little not only about cooking but all chores too.In that way, it won't be too hard for them to take responsibility when they grow older.Though,I would of course considered myself very lucky to have been showered with love and care and shelter from my mom.

My girls are too young to be cooking alone but my eight yesr old does help me in the kitchen especially if we are making a bolognaise. She loves to chop up the peppers and brown off the meat. She grows her own basil so she cuts a few leaves off the plant and tears them into the sauce. Maybe when she is a little older I will let het take control of the kitchen for one meal a week, it's actually a very good idea.

My son is nine years old. He helps my wife in cooking. He does small things such as preparing his own lunch. Making a sandwich for himself or prepare a bowl of cereal. My wife has taught him how to fry an egg. He feels useful and at the same time he is learning survival skills. He is willing to learn and thus my wife shows him slowiy some things that he is capable of doing.

my mother is a good cook but unfortunately she did not teach any of us how to, i really dont know the reason why. lucky that my wife is a good cook as well. i know that in the future she will teach my son to cook for as early as 4 years old we can see the sign of interest in him. he is always at her mother's side when my wife is preparing the things she needed to cook, and he is also imitating on how my wife cuts the ingredients. he has this plastic knife that he uses when my wife is busy doing all this things. it is cool to see that he is interested and i know that my wife will teach him how to cook. good for you that your children knows how to cook. good job panda.

Both of my children are still too young to even think about cooking a meal for me. However, I do let each of them help me in the kitchen from time to time so that they can learn how to cook in the basic sense while they are still small. I was actually already an adult before I learned to cook so I would like them to be able to prepare some basic things by the time that they are teenagers so we share time together in the kitchen.

For me when I'm not married I just remember that our mother is easy to siting pretty because all of food preparation is me so when I'm have a child I want to tech them in that way.

My children are nine, and five, so no they don't cook per say. However, my son does make lunch, sandwiches, drink, chips, fruit etc, and my daughter gets the table ready. They help me when I bake, in the prep part, but are not allowed to use the stove or anything like that yet. We homeschool, so I include home skills in our lessons. I am not a great cook, so maybe I can learn something from them LOL.

I think that that's good that you taught your kds to cook. Its important for them to know how to take care of themselves. I saddly don't have children but was allowed to start learning in school. I then continued the process at home, and I can cook fairly well. I cook most meals for myself and George.

My mom taught me to cook when I was young. I was only ten when she started teaching how to cook and I was really thankful for that because I have to go away from home two years ago and learning how to cook there was really important. I cherished the moment when my mom taught me how to cook. My brother also felt the same way. We were really grateful for our mom for teaching us how to cook. When I would have my own kind, I also want them to learn how to cook also. I wanna give them the example that my mom had for me and my brother.

One of my daughters is a really excellent cook. She cooks every Thursday evening - a day that I work late - and it's great to come home to a delicious meal. Last week we had tiger prawns in batter with a sweet and sour sauce, green beans and vegetable rice. It was lovely. She cooks all kinds of things, like spaghetti bolognaise or chili con carne; chops and casseroles. Sometimes it's something very basic like fishfingers, chips and peas but I don't care as long as I don't have to cook it!

My son was always a mad keen cook when he was a child and he loved to experiment with meals. His first success was a delicious stuffed omlette, and he has since gone on to greater things. He's now working as a chef :-D

Hello PandaEyes, I have no kids yet, but my parents taught us how to cook food when we were young. They were just basic meals but it does help us. In fact when my elder sister reach 10, she is the one cooking our meals, and then afterward, it becomes a by schedule between us, sisters. We are 7 siblings in the family and all girls, and my mother believe as a girl we should know how to cook, so that is why they let us cook in our everyday meal after we each reach 10 years old.

my 14 year old son can cook,fried eggs opn toast,tuna fish and rice,and red thai curry,my 13 year old daughter can do eggs,beans and bacon,chips and a few other things,i don't trust my 8 year old to cook yet,but he can make a lovely cup of tea,,i think kids should be independent before they leave home,there would be nothing worse than having the kids come home every week with their washing and stuff

Hello Pandaeyes, Very pretty id name. Yes, I tried with my oldest daughter at the age of 13 she is now 21 and still cannot cook for life of her. She even toook cooking class at high school and her cookies came out all goey and too soft to eat. She is a brain graduated in the top 5 of her class of like 200 kids. Cooking was not her thing. My other daughter age 13 and is 18 loves to cook and cook relaly well. She sometimes cooks for me because she is home from school by 3:30pm and I am home from work like 4:30pm. She loves spicey food and I needs lots of something to drink because of spices. I swear she was born without tastebuds. My eyes will water and she sitting there with her meal like there not enough spices on it. (lol) Thanks and have a great day Sincerley Unique16