When my daughter was 7 she loved to help me cook. She did easy safe stuff like hand me things like spoons or something from the fridge. Her favorite thing to do is I had a table where I prepared alot of the food. She wanted to sit so I sat next to her. Well one day I was making instant mash potatoes I was using the microwave to make it because all the burners we're being used. So I put milk water and butter into the bowl and microwave it for 6 minutes so it is boiling hot. I sit it between me and my kid on the table. We are side by side her on my left. I must of put it on the edge because it started to fall. I leaned into it and shoved her out of her seat. I was covered in the stuff. She didn't get one drop. I had 3rd degree burns and blisters the size of water melons. My whole left side was so burned I couldn't do anything for weeks but lay on my bed. My husband had to change my bandages every day. I couldn't even shower for a week and a half. I would do it again all just so she won't
Yes due to how bad the blisters were and they called it a grease fire burn the butter in the bowl stayed on my skin and made the burns worse. My leg and side was so burned it was past the nerves and I felt nothing from them but my arm which was 2nd degree hurt so bad I almost blacked out. When I pulled my pants off part of skin came off. I was wearing a thin tank top a sports bra and thin old yoga pants. It was the worst time of my life. Yet I would gladly be covered head to toe in burns than have my daughter have a burn the size of a pea.
I got a third degree burn as a kid (6) from putting chicken noodle soup in the microwave for 5 minutes and then trying to put the bowl in the fridge to cool. It spilled all onto my bare feet. So my babysitter called my mom to come home and take me to the ER.
She didn’t come home for 3 hours. Bowling was more important. Some moms are awesome... some suck.
At 6 I did not let my kid take stuff out of the microwave. I let her put the stuff in and push the buttons but not till she was 8 did she touch hot food when helping me cook. She didn't get to take stuff out of the oven untill she was 10. And she first had to prove to me she can do it with out hurting her self. Plus never anything that was heavy. Always simple stuff like pizza or chicken nuggets and stuff like that. When she is 12 I plan to show her how to cook on the stove top. All she does now is stir stuff on the stove top. And start food on it. Never made a full food item on it. She does know how to bake cake and brownies and stuff like that.
I am teaching her like this because this is how I was shown how to cook. Same with my mom and my grandma.
She didn’t come home for 3 hours. Bowling was more important. Some moms are awesome... some suck.
I am teaching her like this because this is how I was shown how to cook. Same with my mom and my grandma.
No doubt about it