For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 14, 2019

try something simpler, Lizzie, like a peanut butter sandwich

Good old Kraft dinner.

Pizza night it is.

She’s too short to be cooking!

I think Liz is still too young to cook. Are John and Elly nuts? She’s only around 8 or 9. I didn’t let my kids that young anywhere near the stove but they could microwave or make sandwiches out of the fridge or pour a cereal. John and Elly need to wait til Liz is a few years older. They still have Mike so have him cook dinner.

It depends on the child if s/he is able to cook dinner. I do think she’ĺl need help reaching the furnace.

umm honey – you need to add the cheez flavour packet too..

this is why moms never get a chance to be sick. someone has to feed the family and unless dad is a chef or they go out a lot she still has to get up and cook.

Lynn’s Notes:

This happened! When my well-meaning kids decided to make mac and cheese for dinner, they put on the macaroni without thinking to stir it. The result was a block of pasta that came out on the spoon like this. A good laugh means nothing is wasted. And, we had a dog.

I’m all for kids learning to cook but umm, a little adult supervision? LOL

I was cooking as a cub scout. Outside I could see all I had to work with. I used cooking sets made from food cans, wax and fiberboard. I learned to stir while focused on the eventually ready to eat food. Of course often the food was obtained from cans. Cans were not as easily violated by most critters.

Easier to see being at my height.

When I had to cook, my favorite recipe was macaroni and cheese with chopped hot dogs – the little ones loved it!

A child boiling water unsupervised, what could go wrong…

With her mother doing the home cooking and her father a professional chef, my wife never cooked until the “audition piece” just before we were married. Yet she has always been an excellent cook (as am I, but from practice since childhood), so skilled observation has its uses.

Time to order take out Dad.

started cooking about 7

One of the Great Depression foods.

HELLO!!!! Cartoon!! Not real life. It’s Funny!! Sheesh. I know young 20-somethings that still make this same kind of mistake in the kitchen. Better they learn from a young age how to feed themselves, anyway.

Why isn’t John cooking??!!

My 2 sons learned how to cook at age eight. If you can reach the stove without standing on anything….you can cook!

She is definitely old enough to cook she’s 10!