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> I want to cook for an hour without being alone. Privacy in the kitchen would never be desireable. When you have small kids: - You want them away from boilin
by humanrebar 7y ago
> I want to cook for an hour without being alone. Privacy in the kitchen would never be desireable.
When you have small kids:
- You want them away from boiling water, dropped knives, and dangerously hot ovens.
- You want them to keep sleeping even though you're vacuuming
- You might want to let them watch Baby Shark for the 1000th blasted time while leaving you out of it
- You might want to read a novel while they hold miniature My Little Pony melodramas
- You might want to start a project on a table, leave it alone for an hour (behind closed doors), then come back to it where you left it
- You might want to have adult conversations about adult subjects (death, money, parenting) without unprepared ears listening in
You probably do want to incorporate them into dining, family choices, and cooking, but only in controlled ways.
- SimianLogic2 7y agoI was the opposite with my kids. I wanted to be able to do stuff in the kitchen while also keeping an eye on them in the living room.
- alkonaut 7y agoYmmv. mine are 5 & 7 and in the last 5 years I have had zero of those problems.
- humanrebar 7y agoYep. Different kids are different. As are parents. Some of this might be introversion versus extraversion.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoYou might want to remember that next time you come in to a thread guns blazing in the 2nd person with the "wait til you have kids ;)" angle.
- humanrebar 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you
- luckydata 7y agoMine is a terror and so are most kids. Kitchen accidents are SUPER common for little kids because the tend to look with their hands and pull on things like boiling pots of water. IMHO having a cavalier attitude because nothing bad happened to you is not productive.
- tropo 7y agoSomehow, that is a very real and serious problem. I suppose it is possible because of wobbly little stove burners or super-slippery pans. This happened to a friend's kid. He pulled down a pot of spaghetti, severely burning his penis. While the family is struggling to deal with the medical issue, Massachusetts starts an intrusive and accusatory investigation. Because of the location of the injury, the state made the assumption that there was sexual abuse.
- luckydata 7y agothat's complete insanity, sorry to hear that. Nobody should go through that on top of the injury that's likely to make them feel like shit already.
- bunderbunder 7y ago> You want them away from boiling water, dropped knives, and dangerously hot ovens. This sort of stuff is exactly why the separate kitchen doesn't work at our house. The kids want to be where they can see us, and, with the way our kitchen is set up, there's no way for them to do that without being underfoot. At the same time, we want to be able to keep at least a vague eye on them, and that's not not really possible if they're in a completely separate room. Versus, when I was little, our house had a kitchen that was separated from the living room by a counter. Which things much easier: We could hang out in sight of Mom, Mom could keep an eyey on us, and we weren't creating a safety hazard (or hassle) just so long as we stayed on one side of the counter. It's also a total PITA at dinner parties. These aren't the old days, where it was OK for one person (always the same person) to stay isolated in the kitchen for half the evening, and it was understood that it's a private space where guests aren't allowed. Instead we end up with more and more people congregating in the kitchen, socializing with the cook and then with each other, until eventually literally every guest is there, getting in the way of the cooking, and they all have to get kicked out so that we can open the oven safely. Then you're isolated for a little bit, until someone needs to get another beer from the fridge, and ends up staying in the kitchen to chat, and then another, and it slowly ramps up until a mildly dangerous cacophany again. Rinse and repeat until dinner is served.
- saddestcatever 7y agoThat's the unwritten rule of house parties. Unless something absolutely amazing is happening in the living room, the smokers will be out back, a pair of introverts will be in the hallway, and everyone else will slowly gravitate towards the kitchen until everyone is in the way.
- asteli 7y agoI've seen this so many times. The introverts and smokers I can explain, but to this day I have no idea why people congregate in the kitchen even when there's nothing specific to draw them in there (food, etc.)
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- wtvanhest 7y agoI have an 8 month old and a kitchen separate from our living room. When I am cooking, he is forced to sit in a highchair. I wish he could be playing on the other side of the counter while I cook instead.
- duxup 7y agoI have kids and an open living and kitchen area. For all the reasons you listed I want it open so I can keep an eye on the kids.