few very basic cooking skills, such as heating up soup on the stove. the only problem, which i found out later, was that he wanted to continue using a toaster, stove and microwave when he got home and his mother absolutely freaked out because it was "dangerous for a child to do any cooking by themselves".
i bet that people who do everything for their kids think that everyone else is crazy.
sadly, it is the kids who suffer in the end, when they move out on their own and can not handle the basics of life.
when i was growing up, the kids started doing chores at age 5, in order to 