Always encouraged my children to help as their father couldn’t do anything and didn’t want them the same. Had some failures with DS when he was 17 asking how to cook the long spaghetti, told him just to put it in a pan and let it boil, while later something smelt awful,it was one of my pans on the hob with a burnt bottom, said to him you can’t have put enough water in it,his reply was, you never said I had to put water in it lol.
More success with my daughters though who are no my carers and do everything for me,even the 15 year old, the eldest of them has just decorated all downstairs and laid wood flooring for me