Potato peeler

I was banned from peeling potatoes in my house when i was young cause i peeled the side of my pinky off

My mum used to make me sort the trash, sort the vegetables, sort clothes once they were dry ( decades ago) and she used to say I was the best “sorter” and brag about it to everyone… I realized way too late that I was nothing but slave labor. 8 year old me should have started a revolution.

It’s all within keikaku

Damn i must’ve sucked big time because all i got was “get out the kitchen you’re in my way”

Mothers are very smart LOL

Well, thanks to your mom, you probably have better potato peeling skills than an ordinary person now

I was a beast at making a coffee according to my brother and friends.

that mid-30s wake up call hits like a ton of spuds. Who knew ‘mastering’ kitchen tasks was just d beginning of the real lesson in life? Well played, mom. ell played

Your mom played 4D chess while you were just peeling potatoes. Iconic.

That’s a good mom

I mean maybe you were good at peeling potatoes. How do you know if youve never entered a potatoe peeling competition.

My mum did this with dicing onions. I learnt to do horizontal slices before the vertical slices so that it was diced in school home economics lessons. She always said she couldn’t do it like I could.

BUT… what if you were the world’s best potato peeler and your mom was just proud of you?

it hits you when you have kids of your own and you instinctively start giving them the same assignments you had as a kid

The majority of people want to be useful/needed. This starts as a child and many people ignore or prevent their children from helping because children aren’t good at tasks.

Positive feedback/reinforcement when someone is trying to help is far more important than saving you 15 minutes now or having to redo it. Many people take pride in their work and that often starts with parents who are proud of their children for working/contributing.

and every year, she was less pleased and more dissapointed.

Nah but fr though positive reinforcement is important. People will do the things they’re good at, even if it’s peeling potatoes, and then they’ll actually become good at it. It’s good practice when you’re teaching someone something new, even when you don’t have nefarious purposes like “getting your kid to help out for once” in mind.

My dad said burned toast was cowboy toast, that’s how the like it. So when it got burned I would ask for the cowboy toast.

I was the best at bagging groceries. “Must be from all that Tetris,” she’d say.