Tsk, tsk .. these children already "know" how to do everything. Most refuse to accept offers of assistance. They are also the generation of instant food. They lack the patience to cook from scratch.
You have to teach them basic skills before the Attitude hits. (And I've found that offering high-fiber, vegetarian meals produces miraculous blossoming of culinary skills in teens. "If you don't want what I'm serving, cook something else!")
” these children already “know” how to do everything. Most refuse to accept offers of assistance. “
It’s actually worse - kids these days have been indoctrinated from, almost, birth - through TV programming, commercials, and our Publik Skools - that grown-ups in general, and parents in particular, are doltish simpletons who, when they don’t need to be ‘taught’ by their children about everything from cigarettes to Global warming, are best ignored...
“They are also the generation of instant food. They lack the patience to cook from scratch.”
I’d think they’d be the second generation of that; this is on their parents, who had already given up on cooking from scratch (actually, their parents were probably the first wave where both parents had to work).