Aura Flow

What if everything gets better in 2016

making the radical claim "11 year old children should be taught how to make extremely simple food" has resulted in people making arguments like "I wasnt allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16 and I think this is super normal actually" and "children dont know what ratios are so its unfair to expect them to be able to comprehend the idea of adding equal amounts rice and water to a rice cooker" and I gotta say originally I thought maybe I was being too judgy but now I feel very secure in my opinion because what the fuck

Children might not know what ratios are in the sense of 1:1 notation, but they are more than capable of understanding 'you have to use the same amount of water and rice otherwise it goes wrong'.

In addition to this, cooking is an excellent way to teach children scaling and ratio in Real Life.

"Children don't understand-" AND THAT'S WHY IT IS YOUR JOB TO TEACH THEM????? LIKE HELLO??? THEY CAN LEARN??????

As someone who started cooking with supervision quite young and started cooking on my own (by choice) semi-regularly at 6-7 years old, I was baffled by how confusing/distressing fractions and a few other bits of math were for many of my class when we got to them.

11 years old is like 6th/7th grade dude. This is when kids start pre-algebra in my area. What are we talking about here

A formative memory for me was seeing someone talk about the Digimon movie, which shows a young elementary school aged kid making fried eggs unsupervised, and and freaking out about how dangerous and neglectful that is supposedly and I thought that was just one weird guy before later finding out that that kind of thought is disturbingly common.

⚠️ A single, distant "awawa!" echoes from the hills...