cshenk wrote:

> "Kathleen" wrote
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>>cshenk wrote:
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>>>Sensible. Charlotte wasnt allowed to dump over a pot of boiling pasta
>>>from the stove to the sink colander at that age either.
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>>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.
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>
> 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!)
>
Yep. My son is 6'1" now and awfully damned pleased to be taller than
his 5'11" mother.

His big sister was annoyed to top out at 5'7".

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