Teens don’t like to sit and have dinner with their parents. I was talking to a woman in charge of the teen club at her church. She told me that parents have a hard time getting their teens to eat dinner with them.
I told her people support that which they help to create. If the teens made the meal, or at least helped with choosing the meal and its preparation, they would sit down and share it with their parents. This really works. I have a friend whose five-year-old son never wanted to eat a soup she made. When she started to let her son help in the soup’s preparation and stir the soup, he ate it with enthusiasm.
I wrote the recipes in my cookbook, Let’s Cook Tonight, on a third grade reading level. That was by design. My recipes aren’t childlike nor are they condescending; they are just easy to understand. I wrote for a particular audience, people who don’t like to cook and don’t know how. Because this group usually doesn’t understand cooking terms, I eliminated them and made the instructions very easy to follow.
All you have to do is give your teens my cookbook and tell them where the kitchen is. Before long, a healthy, delicious dinner will be on the table and your teens will be sitting, eating, and chatting with you.
Cooking is easier than you think and you and your family are worth the time and effort it takes.
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