My mom was the same way, and her attitude was that if you were old enough to read a recipe you were old enough to cook. Started with the fun stuff (cookies, cakes and brownies when I was six years old) and by the time I was eight I could prepare my own meals unsupervised.
I told my son’s I didn’t want to have them have to get married to keep from starving to death.....now they are in their 40-50’s and they say they had to learn how to cook, I was so bad at it.....can we all say KARMA LOL