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There are other changes as well.
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Moving on with the current of the years.
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
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My DD16 wants to cook more. So last night my DD13 had softball practice from 5:30 - 7:30 so I made a meatloaf and put it in the refrig. I diced potatoes and left them in cold water. I wrote out instructions for my DD16 to preheat the oven at 7:00 and put the meatloaf in the oven. Turn on the elect. skillet at 7:00 and drain the potatoes and start frying them. She was mad because I made such a big deal out of writing down the instructions. She knew what she was doing. You know where this is going, don't you!!! At 7:06 I said to my DH "do you think I should call home and make sure she is doing it right?" he said "no, you have to trust her to do it." So we get home at 7:45 and she is on the computer. I can smell something cooking. She looks at me coming in the door and yells "oh my gosh, I forgot to put the meatloaf in the oven!!!" I could of killed her!!! The potatoes were done though!!! The oven was really preheated!!! You would think somthing should of jogged her memeory when she was cooking the potatoes!!! So we turned down the potatoes and threw the meatloaf in the oven. I think we finally ate around 8:45. She was still mad at me this morning because I yelled at her. Sometimes I wonder what is in 16 year old heads!!!!
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She missed one step...a kind of important one...but at least you had potatoes!
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I have 2 teenagers aged 17 and 15 and I hear you......
Just in case it happens again, I got this trick from Rachel Ray. She makes meatloaf "mini loaves"-you mold the meatloaf into single serving shapes like a bread loaf and put them on a baking sheet. They cook up so much faster! (That's why she can make them during "30 minute meals" . I still like my meatloaf in one pan but on busy days like nights of baseball games, this can help
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She's mad at you because she screwed up dinner and you yelled about it? Oh well, she'll just have to get over it won't she (I'm sorry if it bothers you that I have no sympathy for your daughter). I would have been mad and yelling too (and then I probably would have taken away the computer - I've done it to my 7 year old.)
She's mad at you because she screwed up dinner and you yelled about it? Oh well, she'll just have to get over it won't she (I'm sorry if it bothers you that I have no sympathy for your daughter). I would have been mad and yelling too (and then I probably would have taken away the computer - I've done it to my 7 year old.)
I have no sympathy for her either and believe me she knows it!! It seems like at this age the world revolves her!! Of course, I was perfect at her age. I have actually apologized to my mother numerous times for anything I may have done!!!
It could have been worse. She could have put the meatloaf in the oven and forgot about it resulting in a burnt meatloaf.
I would have made her buy everyone pizza for dinner. A teen parting with their money to buy dinner that they should have cooked would be a good lesson.
I would've been worried that the kitchen could catch on fire while she was on the computer and she wouldn't even know it. I have a rule about my kids not being out of the kitchen if they are cooking something. I also have a 16 yr. old whom the world revolves around. Boy is it a busy dizzy world.
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I would've been worried that the kitchen could catch on fire while she was on the computer and she wouldn't even know it. I have a rule about my kids not being out of the kitchen if they are cooking something. I also have a 16 yr. old whom the world revolves around. Boy is it a busy dizzy world.
Our computer is out in the open right next to the kitchen counter. We want to make sure we can see what they are doing on the computer.
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Well - at least she pre-heated the oven and got the potatoes done!
Maybe next time she will get it all done!
I think it is great that she wants to learn and try!
She got most of it done.
Of course, at 17, I would have made my DD responsible for the entire meal - my 14 and 10 yr. olds cook, and are on occassion left to do everything - plan, shop, prep, cook. I don't want them moving out at 18 or 19 and being totally unprepared for living on their own.
In my experience, having had the teen-age step-DD and the teen-age DD (who both made it to adulthood, no matter how hard they tried to make me strangle them), I'm surprised she's only mad cause you yelled at her - mine would have been mad because I left stuff for them to do, I left them alone at home (like they had better things to do), I left them a list, I didn't leave a list telling them to stay off the computer or set a timer or something. My point is - with teens, you're in a no-win situation, but it's okay - we still love them. and they realize that sometime around 25-30.
I think that is a pretty funny story, but I'm sure it was pretty aggravating in real time! She tried, and I guess that matters. Sorry I'm giggling abotu it - I'm pretty sure I did stuff like that, too! I remember once I tried to make brownies and the recipe called for 1 1/2 cups of flour... I thought it meant one HALF cup (meaning only a half cup). Yeah, you could say I was pretty new at reading recipes. So my brownies came out pretty thins and crispy!!! They were nice and chocolaty, but kind of the consistency of peanut brittle without the peanuts! WHOOPS! My Mom and sister laughed at me for days... I was utterly embarrassed.
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