So I am just testing the water to see if I am old fashioned.
A friend of mine has two beautiful girls ages 10 and 7 I believe, and he and his wife have an arrangement where they share being a parent of responsibility on differing days of whose working and various situations, recently one of girls told me that she has to cook her and her sisters dinner as their mum "needs" to do music, this seemed very wrong to me that a 10 year old is cooking food while their mum is in another room playing music, obviously on this day dad was working, on a more recent day it had transpired again on a mum day of responsibility the dad was upstairs working in his office when his daughter came into room and was crying uncontrollably that again she was struggling to cook fish fingers and again mum was in other room playing music, so dad spent half an hour trying to calm her down and missed calls to his patients as he was actually working and mum was meant to be looking after kids. now I am fully aware that there is fun in cooking WITH the kids and teaching them how to do things, but am I being old fashioned when I think a ten year old should not be needing to cook unsupervised for herself and 7 year old sister? to me the obvious answer is kids should not be needing to prepare a cooked meal for themselves at 10 years old, but perhaps I am out of touch?
Thanks for any thoughts.