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StealThisSheen posted...

I don't think that was his argument at all. His argument was to just teach your kids not to cook anything, period, if they don't know how to, unless you're around. Which seems logical to me?

EDIT: To be clear, this is logical to me because my parents taught me "Don't even touch the oven unless we tell you to." And I didn't, because I had no idea how the oven worked, anyway, so I never even tried because, you know, my parents told me not to, and I knew I'd be punished if I didn't listen.

Thing is, that doesn't stop all kids. Fear of punishment works great on some kids, other kids not so much. People who don't have kids often expect kids to be a whole lot more reasonable and rational than they actually are in reality. For instance, I don't have a lot to worry about with my kid in the kitchen, she's not the sort to mess around in there, that said there's friends of hers that you need to watch like a hawk. It doesn't all come down to the parenting, you even end up with siblings where you have one that's responsible and another that's wild, you cannot discount a kids personality which has far more influences impacting it than just the parents.