Single Mom’s Cooking Strike: Are Her Teen Kids Pushing Her Too Far?

Being a single mom is tough, but when your teenage kids have specific diets and refuse to help with cooking, it can be downright exhausting. Meet Jenny (15) and Mark (17), two teens who’ve adopted very different diets. Mark is into bodybuilding, while Jenny has gone vegan. Their mom loves and supports them, but she’s reached her breaking point.

Mark’s Bodybuilding Diet ️

Jenny’s Vegan Lifestyle

The Exhausting Cooking Routine

Kids’ Refusal to Help

Mom’s Breaking Point

Kids’ Ungrateful Reactions

Mom’s Cooking Strike

Kids’ Hurtful Responses

Mom’s Dilemma

Edit: Overwhelmed by Support

Kids’ Struggles and Therapy

Mom’s Realization

Mom’s Determination

Is Mom Right to Stop Cooking? ️❌

This single mom is at her wit’s end, juggling her kids’ specific diets and their refusal to help with cooking. After an emotional breaking point, she’s declared a cooking strike, leaving her kids to fend for themselves. Is she being a bad mom, or is it time for her kids to step up and take responsibility for their own meals? Let’s see what the internet thinks of this situation…

Teaching teens to cook: reasonable or sexist? NTA mom overwhelmed.

Teens are old enough to cook and learn. NTA.

Single mom stands up to entitled teens in cooking strike

Engaging plan to get kids involved in cooking and empathize.

Teens’ unusual diets push mom to cooking strike. NTA.

Mom’s cooking strike gets support from other parents.

Mom gets support for not being a short order cook

Teens’ picky diets? NTA mom’s cooking strike is justified

Teens demanding strict diet should cook and contribute. NTA

Compromise on a vegan body-building meal plan for both kids

Single mom struggles to get her teens to cook. ‍♀️ She plans to teach them with supervision. ‍

Teens demand specific diets, mom strikes back with NTA

Commenters call out entitled teens in vegan mom’s dilemma

Encouraging comment reminds single mom to prioritize her mental health.

Teens demand specific diets? They can cook it themselves. NTA

Teens demand specific food, mom strikes back. NTA.

Teens need a reality check. NTA for going on strike!

Teens refuse to help single mom cook, insult her while crying

Teach them to cook and stop being their personal chef ‍

Teens giving recipes? Let them cook it themselves.

NTA. OP’s kids sound spoiled & entitled. Set boundaries

Single mom not a private chef, kids need to learn gratitude

Mom not cooking for entitled teens.

Mom’s cooking strike teaches kids not to be entitled

Mom on cooking strike as teens demand specific diets. NTA.

Tough love! Mom’s cooking strike gets NTA approval

Teens demand special meals, mom goes on cooking strike. NTA.

17-year-old offers cooking advice and life lessons to struggling mom

Single mom receives support and tough love advice from commenter

Teen bodybuilder offers advice and suggests therapy for entitled kids.

Encouraging reply to single mom’s cooking strike with helpful advice. ❤️

NTA! Cooking strike may teach teens self-sufficiency.

Mom’s cooking strike against entitled teens receives NTA support

NTA. Mom needs to put her foot down and demand help

Vegan commenter supports single mom’s cooking strike, offers advice.

No chef for entitled teens. Do they even care?

Grandfather’s cooking strike worked wonders for fussy eaters!

Single mom’s tough love approach gets mixed reactions

Single mom reaches breaking point with picky eaters, seeks compromise.

Mom’s cooking strike sparks debate on parenting and entitlement

Teach ’em young! NTA mom takes a stand

Cook one dinner for all three. If they don’t like it, tough ‍♀️

Teens demand mom to cook? Teach them to cook instead!

Encouraging comment on parenting struggles with positive outlook

Mom takes a cooking strike, serves lentils and broccoli

Single mom takes a stand in the kitchen

Teens should learn to cook and respect their mom’s efforts ‍

Mom feels guilty but commenters agree: NTA, make them cook.

Empowering kids to cook for themselves sets them up for success

Teens should cook for themselves. Mom’s NTA. ‍

Teenagers expect to be served like at a restaurant? NTA, teach them to cook

Collaborative cooking plan suggested. Empowering kids to cook.

Teens need to learn to cook, mom’s NTA

Clear-cut NTA comment needs no explanation.

Compromise is key! Try making a dish together.

Single mom receives NTA judgement and advice for dealing with teens.

Encouraging healthy eating while setting boundaries. NTA

Teaching kids to cook: a valuable life lesson!

Compromise and cook together twice a week to avoid conflict

Teens on diets act entitled, mom’s cooking strike justified

Teens need to learn to cook their own specific diets ‍

Mom’s cooking strike justified, commenters support her tough love stance.

Teens demand pricey diets, but won’t pitch in? NTA.

Teaching teens to cook: NTA mom takes a stand

Teenagers expect mom to cook after receiving a cookbook?

Teaching kids autonomy in the kitchen ‍ is tough but necessary

Teens need to learn to cook, NTA for setting boundaries. ‍