My husband’s grandmother began teaching him to cook not long after he could walk. Children are remarkably willing to learn and adults can be remarkably dense.
Thank goodness your daughter was able to move forward from what could have been a crushing experience. Thanksgiving dinner is no easy feat!
I was in bed sick as a dog with another round of pneumonia (caught from her) and every joint burning and coughing my insides out so didn’t want to think about Thanksgiving much less help. She took herself into the kitchen the night before and whipped up a pumpkin pie and a pecan pie and started the cornbread for the stuffing. The next day, did the turkey and all the fixin’s without batting an eye.
When she was less than two years old, I sat her on the counter (bad mom!) to let her watch me make her her first choc chip cookies. Didn’t make them again for 6 months and she was telling me what went in them!