Do you typically prepare meals for other people or just yourself?

Even a five year old or younger- depends on the child- can help measure out things for baking. Teaching a child to cook or bake is also a way to teach simple math skills- a half a cup versus a quarter cup.

I think that the only way anyone can learn anything is by wanting to do it. So children want to learn how to cook and some are not interested.

Any age is all it takes. I once wanted cookies. I read the directions and every thing. I think I was 13 or maybe 15. These are like sugar cookies. I love sugar but dumping a bag of sugar on a cookie sheet did not sound like I would make it out alive so I figured better read the instructions. Came out perfect, and even my little sister was like I thought you would screw it up, but these are good. See what kind of support I get. Why I never cook for no one other than my self, do not want to ruin my reputation that I can cook when I want.

These days it is just myself and son.

I always cook for my husband and myself. My cousin (who became a Chef) started the cooking school at the age of 9.

I cook meals for myself since my older sister has a rule to make our meals when she needs her rest at night.

It is my wife who prepares our meals. She is more capable than we are at doing it. That is a useful life skill to have because you can use it for both yourself and your loved ones.

I started learning how to help my mom cook before I was 10 years old. I love cooking, But now I live alone so do not cook as often as I would like. My apartment is too small for any kind of real cooking, but I do some of that at least a few times a month. I have almost always cooked large quantities, however, as those can be put in the freezer for future meals when I don't feel like making anything, Even with delivered food, like pizza, I tend to order larger quantities for the same reason. I mean, those delivery charges add up. So get what you can in one trip, right? Now when I do cook a big meal with lots of leftovers, I do like to share it with neighbors when I can.

I mostly just cook for my husband and me.

I prepare meals for my family regularly.

It's great to hear that you're taking the initiative to cook not only for yourself but also for your family, and it's admirable that you're passing on your cooking skills to your 12-year-old niece. I regularly cook for me and my husband

I prepare meals for my husband as well as for the lady I am care giving of. I think it depends on the child. I learned how to cook rice and eggs when I was 7.

I am cooking only for myself because cooking for many people is too difficult. I never liked to cook, but I cook some easy meals. I don't have the energy to cook for many people.

I've learned to cook since I was a kid. When I was 9 years old I already know how to cook rice, there was no rice cooker at that time, then I learned how to fry fish also at a young age. I am also the one tasked by my mother to buy fish at the market because I know what kinds of fish my mother wants. I've learned some cooking from my kapampangan aunt who I always watch while she cooks our meal and I act as assistant lol.

I'm an eater, not a cook.

When they are ready to learn. It varies by child and what they are learning to cook

Just me. I've been microwaving my food since 19 when I moved out. I remember cooking tacos, and thought, "All this work, and it's going to take me 2 minutes to eat" and then I'd get sick of eating it, and I didn't want to just store it in the freezer, so I haven't cooked in 20 years.

If I'm with family, I normally do the all the cooking. For some reason they see cooking as work and for them it is good if I give them a break from "working" in the kitchen I think children should learn to cook from a very young age. I was never taught to cook and it was a real difficulty when I left the house. I lived off instant food for a very long time and it was bad for my health.