When you think about it though, this sort of is out there – lots of canned foods, and mixes and frozen packaged foods with prep instructions – or recipes – included with it, just like a cook book.
The thing of it is, she shouldn’t have phrased it as if Michael was some sort of burden, who needed to start pulling his own weight. She should be clear that those sort of chores are an exercise for the increasingly greater responsibilities he’ll have as he gets older. He may not understand that at first, but it’d be a heck of a lot better than sounding ungrateful for even having him; describing him more like a freeloading tenant she’s tolerating, than a child she voluntarily had and loves unconditionally…
Bucky, sinceriously?