My kids can cook steaks and mac and cheese and would gladly eat that meal every night. I would not.

Seriously, I don't want to eat food that is at my kids' level of cooking and I want variety.

Sad that there are so many parents out there who do not enjoy providing nice meals for their kids.

Anonymous wrote:IMO if they are at home and not working/otherwise busy doing something productive, they can fend for themselves.

Thoughts?

My teen ds disagrees. He’s had a busy schedule of sports practices and camps this summer, but today he mostly laid around and hung out with a friend. I worked all day, paid bills, made doctors appts, walked the dog etc. Why should I also have to make a perfectly able 16 yo a meal?

I would not and my kid would not expect me to .

All of my kids would have cooked for the family

You failed

My 15 yo son is doing a lot of cooking with me and barbecuing with his dad. He is also doing a lot of laundry. And drivers ed class.

In VA? That class is 15 hours total, it cannot be taking up that much of his time.

My 16 year old never wants to eat regular meals, so he definitely doesn't expect that. If it were up to him, every meal would be pb&j and fruit.

Anonymous wrote:I'm 42 years old and my mom still makes me dinner when I visit her home.

I'm 41 and my mom still cooks me dinner for my family multiple nights a week- not because I don't know how but because I'm busy with toddler and baby and she shows love through feeding us well

This thread is bizarre. Do you guys not find family dinner important?

My 15 yo son is doing a lot of cooking with me and barbecuing with his dad. He is also doing a lot of laundry. And drivers ed class. Making his own med/dental appointments and getting to them on transit. We decided to make it a summer of learning how to adult. Cooking is just part of that. I like spending time with him. And I anticipate he will be on the family dinner chef rotation by the end of summer.

I'm 42 years old and my mom still makes me dinner when I visit her home.

My kids are both on some internet meal plan that I assume they found on tik tok so they are cooking their own meals that are the perfect combination of protein, fat etc and think their bodies will be transformed to what they want with that and exercise.

I wish I could eat like a teen boy or I’d have them make it for all of us and DH and I wouldn’t have to cook either.

Of course, we are a family! We cook together sometimes, other times its me. Breakfast we do independently because of different routines but I would hate to have a “fend for yourself” household.

My mom is 82. She still cooks when I visit her. There are somethings that tastes good made from her hands only.

As a parent, I feel immense joy in feeding my children. They are my own biological children and I love them.

No, no, no.

In my house- my kids, my relatives and my guests are pampered to the best of our abilities. We like to eat elaborate meals and we are pretty good in several cuisines. So, DH and I, cook a lot, every day. My kids are not going to be living with us forever. I want them to have lovely memories of good food so that when they start living on their own, they try and replicate what they experienced.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel so sorry for all these kids whose parents don’t feed them dinner! OMG.

Agreed! Where is the nutrition?

Don’t be so melodramatic. These are teens and young adults, not helpless babies. If there is a house full of groceries/healthy food items or access to $ to go grocery shopping, why shouldn’t a young adult or teen make their own dinner or dinner for the family?

Some of you people are raising entitled brats, and from what I can see on the college Facebook groups and from my college professor friends, it is a huge issue. Many of you don’t know when to stop babying your kids!

Yeah, providing food clothing and shelter is babying your kids!! Tell them to grow up!

Anonymous wrote:I feel so sorry for all these kids whose parents don’t feed them dinner! OMG.

I know. There's a mentally ill subset of DCUM who thinks it's a badge of honor to push their children to independence as early as possible, as if it would help anyone later on. I laugh when the parents of the little kids boast about the chores they're making a 3 year old do. No one should wait on a 17 year old? Please.

My kids know how to cook, care for all our pets, do laundry, dust, mop, change a tire, repair bikes, etc. But my husband and I do it most of the time (he does most of the cooking, repair and yard work, I do most of the cleaning and pet care). It's the parents' house, operating under parent rules, and part of that deal is that kids are not the primary supervisors of this house. They abide by house rules: when we need their help, they help. When we're teaching them a new skill, they show up to learn. When we don't need their help, they are free to be kids and do kid things. Goodness knows they have decades to be responsible for their own homes.