Did you get coddled when you were a teenager?

[Borachio]

I'd say yes. Never really made a habit out of cooking for myself or doing my own laundry. Though I certainly can do those things, they're just not on my list of things I think of doing.

Though I was never actively discouraged from cooking or doing laundry, I was never encouraged or taught how to do either. If my mother was in the house, you simply couldn't get near either the washing machine or cooker. Or rather it would be made plain that any such move would be interfering with a closely arranged schedule of tasks.

I suppose my parents assumed we would be intelligent enough to figure it all out for ourselves when we left home.

Oh. I tell a lie. My mother did teach me how to make pancake batter in about 5 minutes shortly before I left home for the first time.

She was actually a good cook (having learnt it from her mother-in-law). So I knew what stuff should look like, and I didn't make too bad a job of cooking.

She used to say if you knew how to read a recipe you could cook. Which is kind of true. But you soon find out recipes leave a great deal of information out.

I guess, my parents being primary school teachers, they'd had enough of teaching children stuff during the working day.

 

[Kyriakos]

I learned how to fry an egg when I was a second grader. I then loved cooking. it made me feel great when my parents praised me for it.

When i was in mid elementary school i tried to prepare an egg by using the microwave instead.

I then had to clean up after the egg exploded :\

 

[Farm Boy]

I learned how to fry an egg when I was a second grader. I then loved cooking. it made me feel great when my parents praised me for it.

Well, ok, I can do some stuff. I mean I bake a respectable sheet of cookies from scratch(go 4-H!). And I can usually follow a recipe, it's just that the difference between food prepared by somebody that likes cooking and mine is usually pretty distinguishable. I have no end of problems with eggs. My wife informs me I skimp on buttering/greasing/spraying the pan. Which is probably true.

Oh. I tell a lie. My mother did teach me how to make pancake batter in about 5 minutes shortly before I left home for the first time.

Hehehe. This reminds me of my laundry lesson. But I don't know if that is because they didn't remember to do it, or if I didn't remember to pay attention.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

My parents were extremely strict and protective, but not coddling. Anything less than perfect grades meant big, big trouble, and I was banned from T and M rated video games and R rated movies. They would also often call my friend's house if I was over at their place to make sure I was there in the household and not doing something that I never did anyways.

They did help get me a job at age 16 and taught me to cook a little bit, both of those were/are very important and have paid off immensely.