Love your daughter Misty!! My son's favorite is to help me make bread. He loves yeast! He also uses the microwave at school to heat up his lunch.
But I really want to start him on the stove top so he can make his own scrambled eggs, boiled noodles or quesadilla. I would definitely be standing right there in the kitchen with him.
My son is not a foodie, so I don't think he's going to make cooking a big past-time, but I really don't want to raise a son who is inept in the kitchen!!!!