To ask what age kids can make a brew?

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Got to be getting close to it now surely 🙏🙏🙏

My 10 year old makes a better cup of tea than DH does- and if she makes me one she usually puts a biscuit on the plate as well so she can dunk it in my tea

She's also pretty good at making simple meals for herself- beans on toast, soup, sandwich e.t.c. She also loves to bake things. She's been using kitchen knives for a while now to cut things up- she knows she has to be sat at the table and use a chopping board.

Ateotd it's a life skill like things like using a washing machine properly. By the time she is 18 I hope she is a competent enough cook to be able to fend for herself if given a pile of raw ingredients.

I can't make a brew at 28! Curse of having parents who don't drink hot drinks.
I do make a killer hot chocolate but making tea or coffee fills me with dread!

@Fudgsicles

8/9. Pretty sure that's when I trained mine 😁. Novelty of doing it wore off though 🙄.

Haha same here. And the novelty of cooking also wore off very fast

8 or 9 I think - it at least that’s when I let dd handle a kettle! If I had an especially careful child I’d let them do it a bit earlier I guess, and if they were clumsier / less careful I’d wait until later.

It's easier to train them to mix an alcoholic beverage in a plastic cup first. As soon as they can walk and hold a milk bottle.

I'm not even going to try till they're teenagers. The number of health and safety hazards involved in holding a ceramic mug of boiling hot water, not spilling milk, putting carton back in the fridge with the lid properly on and not losing focus for all of one minute is a big ask.

Kids who aren't trusted to make a cuppa before they're teenagers will be the ones who are embarrassed during year 7 food tech lessons because they're so helpless.

[quote LST]@vanilandhoney where have I said I don't cook with my kids? They just don't use the kettle as my child was severely burned and IMHO it is an unnecessary risk. [/quote]
I never said you didn't.

I just think parents being too risk adverse often leads to incapable adults.

I'm not even going to try till they're teenagers. The number of health and safety hazards involved in holding a ceramic mug of boiling hot water, not spilling milk, putting carton back in the fridge with the lid properly on and not losing focus for all of one minute is a big ask.

Are you actually being serious? You don't think anyone is capable of making a cup of tea until they're thirteen?

10 for us x

@vanillandhoney I'm not one of those parents. But when you see the devastating results of boiling water i can guarantee you'll wait til 10

It was part of a brownie badge (hostess??) so whatever age that is. About 7, but with some supervision for pouring a heavy kettle.

Dd would make a coffee with the coffee pod machines prior to that for us though.

[quote LST]@vanillandhoney I'm not one of those parents. But when you see the devastating results of boiling water i can guarantee you'll wait til 10[/quote]
I've seen it on adults. Age is no guarantee of dexterity, unfortunately.

We clearly don't agree. It''s understandable that you're cautious but I just don't believe a blanket "no" is the answer here. Children need to learn to be responsible and that doesn't happen overnight. It needs building up to gradually over a period of time.

I'm not even going to try till they're teenagers. The number of health and safety hazards involved in holding a ceramic mug of boiling hot water, not spilling milk, putting carton back in the fridge with the lid properly on and not losing focus for all of one minute is a big ask.
DS could pour himself a glass of milk from a two pint bottle without spilling at two. With the boiling water part, I think it is irresponsible not to have taught them before cooking classes at secondary school.

@vanillandhoney I agree. Just not with something so dangerous with children so young and small. What boiling water can do to an adult is a lot less than what it can do to a child

[quote LST]@vanillandhoney I agree. Just not with something so dangerous with children so young and small. What boiling water can do to an adult is a lot less than what it can do to a child[/quote]
Fair enough, we'll just have to agree to disagree.

If they go straight to Scouts or Guides at 10, is it generally assumed that they can use a kettle already?

Brownies can get their hostess badge which involves making a cuppa. Age 7.

My 9 year old googled how to make coffee and surprised me with a cup. I was worried at first that he used the kettle, but actually he's a sensible kid and I have to give him credit for using his initiative. He's made several cups since for me (supervised) and is perfectly capable of minimising the risks.

If kids don't have the opportunity to take these risks how do they learn and grow into capable, self sufficient adults?