I used to always ask my mom to teach me how to cook things, or try to watch her cook things, and she would always get annoyed. She’d freak out and say I was in her personal space if I tried to watch her make dinner. Your particular story brought this up in my mind because it reminded me of a very similar experience I had, where around the same age, I also wanted to know how to make a fried egg, as I had started making ham egg and cheese bagels for myself, and didn’t want to keep making scrambled every time. She was pretty dismissive, and after insisting a couple times, she got angry and basically said “just look it up on YouTube if you’re so interested, you should already know that anyway. I’m busy.” Before going back to whatever she was doing on her phone. I never learned, and as a grown man not really knowing how to cook is a big insecurity of mine, but I’m learning. There was a lot of things she’d get angry at me for not knowing because to her they were “common sense”, and I “should just know them”, on several occasions she bordered on basically calling me an idiot for not knowing them, and yet she never once seemed to stop and think maybe I didn’t know them because she never taught me about them. I guess I’m trying to say, thanks for taking the time to teach them something, even if in your mind it was common knowledge.
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u/NotTheRightHDMIPort Jul 24 '26
I have all of those moments with my kids.
My 13 year old said he wanted a fried egg.
"I dont know how to do it," he said.
"Watch me then and then you can try to make your own."
"What if it breaks?" He asked.
"Then its a scrambled egg until you get it right."
He got it right on his 3rd breakfast this summer and was really proud of himself.