"Kathleen" wrote
> cshenk wrote:

>> Sensible. Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta
>> from the stove to the sink colander at that age either.

> My son is a long-term pastaholic and has been boiling salted water and
> draining cooked pasta in a colander since he was 7. He's 14 now. He most
> probably has gotten himself a steam burn or two since then but the idea of
> possibly losing the right to cook his own pasta at will has kept him from
> ever mentioning any such incident.

Grin, good on ya both there! Part of Charlotte's reason was she was too
short still to see well enough over the sink back then. She's probably at
full height now and a whopping 5ft2 (grin, so happy to be an inch taller
than me! Lords it over me all the time!)

> He's still got all his fingers, never needed a skin graft, has no visible
> scars. And he makes an absolutely rocking alfredo sauce.

;-)

> At some point, I suspect that this, combined with his ninja "garlic bread,
> caesar salad and loading the dishwasher" skills, will probably score big
> points with the ladies.

Oh yeah!