> Lots of times explaining what we weren't going to do for them because they were now old enough to do for themselves. For a while everyone cooked dinner for th

> Lots of times explaining what we weren't going to do for them because they were now old enough to do for themselves. For a while everyone cooked dinner for the whole family one night a week, we rotated nights. Wife would shop for the ingredients, they did the cooking. Everyone else would work on cleanup. Some nights we had sandwiches :-). Lots of "easy" recipes were learned, mac-n-cheese, pasta and marinara sauce, any vegetable boiled, or cooked in a skillet. And some not so easy things, like pot pies, rolls, spinach souffle. Great on you for doing this. I was coddled till I was 15 and suddenly I had to live all alone in a foreign country (owing to shitty circumstances at home). Stressing out about homework whilst having to deal with laundry and cooking was not a fun thing to learn to do at the same time!