Thoughts For The Day....

What age is acceptable to teach your child how to cook? 

The other day my friend said to me that her 11 year old daughter got the manual out for their oven and started reading it to learn how to cook. I was honestly shocked because by that age my kids were cooking full on meals for the whole family! 

However I was very lucky and had my brother in law who loved to cook and had all the patients in the world to teach my kids, especially my oldest girl. And to this day she can whip up a delicious feast fit for a king. I had 3 kids under 3 and most times I just needed to get it done before one of them needed a nappy change. 

Teaching them young doesn't come without it's pit falls mind you. The amount of food you use, or waste because it ended up on the floor. The dishes that they make!!! My son would put half a jar of marmite (kiwi version of vegemite) on one piece of toast! The margarine would end up in the marmite and there would be holes all through his piece of toast. But he would always eat it proudly because he made it all himself. I would always cook his toast for him though because I didn't want him to get burnt. Once he understood that he could burn himself and that he had to be very careful i let him go for it and he hasn't looked back since. 

So I guess by the time my kids could pull a chair up to the bench and get themselves up on it to see, then that's when they learnt how to be independent little humans and cook! Sooooo.... 3 years old.

My kids had friends that were 13 and still had never buttered a piece of bread for the fear that they would cut themselves!!!! 13! To me that's crazy but each to their own. It's not for me to tell someone how to raise their kids. It's hard enough raising my own kids!!! Let alone worrying how someone else is bringing up theirs. 

So what do you recon? Me personally, I say if they want to learn - let them!!!

Be Kind. For Everyone is fighting a hard battle. And if you really want to know see what people are? All you have to do is look.

I so love this! I was always told I was too kind for my own good. But I don't care. I'd rather be kind and caring than a selfish asshole only looking out for myself!

What's so wrong with wanting to live in the past?

Especiallly when they were the most favourite times of my life? My parents were still alive, the music was awesome (and at least you could understand what they were singing!!!) and because I was a kid growing up in the 80's I didn't have to worry about paying bills and working just to barely get by.

My health was good, I wasn't plagued with drug addiction and there was no social media prompting me to kill myself. If you had a problem with someone you would tell them to their face, not hide behind a computer screen. Your shit was your own and not for the world to comment on.

And here we are 2020. I'm watching Cobra Kai and laughing to myself at how much like Johnny I am - stuck in the past, not up with the technology of the times but happier because of it. I deleted most of my social medias. Facebook, Instagram. Twitter. I do still have snapchat to keep in contact with my son and his ex girlfriend and pinterest. But that's it. And life is better.

I'm grateful to still be here in 2020. I'm lucky to have 3 healthy and hopefully happy kids, all in their adult years and living their own lives. I have a loyal and devoted husband of 21 years and an abundance of animals to keep me company. I can count my real true friends on one hand and I am more than happy with that.

I know it will never be the 80's again and I am no longer a adolescent. But it still doesn't stop me from playing my 80's music and thanks to Cobra Kai I get to relive my most favourite movie trilogy from my childhood and then watch the same characters again 30 something years later!!! I feel.....old lol

It's ok to be a sensitive nut job!

Thank God this world is made up of all sorts of people otherwise this world would be a very boring place. Different cultures and nationalities,  beliefs and religions. And we are all blessed with a personality. There are good people and there are bad people. There are kind and sensitive people and there are just plain assholes in every which way you could imagine.

I am a kind and sensitive person. I have suffered from mental illness for years and consider myself (at times) a complete and utter nut job! And I am very much ok with that..... now. I haven't always been though. I have my reasons. Not only did I suffer but my family suffered with me. And that makes me very sad. But it is what it is and I can't change that. I can only apologize and accept it and move on...

Don't carry your burdens. Put them to pen and paper and address it to someone you respect, then burn it!!!

I was watching a documentary about eldery people today... Golden Oldies (elderly poverty documentary) Real Stories and on it was a dear wee lady, an absolute trooper who recons this is part of why she has lived to a ripe old age...

This absolutely works! I was told to do this by my chiropractor lady who also specializes in kinesiology because I was detoxing off some serious long term pharmaceutical use and it was doing my head in. This coupled with deep breathing helped me get through this rough time in my life. 

SMILE!!!

Also on this documentary an eldery gentlemen was reciting this part poem by Karen McLendon Laumann. There are other versus's to this poem but I have only quoted what the elderly gentlemen was reciting. from this documentary..

Smiling is infectious

You can catch it like the flu

When someone smiled at me today

I started smiling too

I passed around the corner

And someone saw my grin

When he smiled I realized

I had passed it on to him

So if you feel a smile begin

Don't leave it undetected

Let's start an epidemic quick

And get the world infected

Cobra Kai Never Dies.... Season 3 release date.... 8 January 2021!!!

And neither does the Karate Kid!!! I'm so excited, I can't wait!!!