‘DWTS’ Peta Murgatroyd faces backlash from girl moms over TikTok with her son

Parenting is all about preparing our kids to head off on their own, survive on Ramen, and hopefully determine if they want to make some real food for themselves at some point after that. But Dancing With The Stars performer Peta Murgatroyd has an even more controversial reason for teaching her son to cook, which she posted in her recent social media video.

“Making sure my son can cook so he’s not impressed by your daughter’s Stouffer’s lasagna,” she writes, mean-mugging the camera in a serious-but-not-serious way.

She lit up the internet with her caption, spurring remarks from both die-hard Stouffer’s fans and girl moms alike, and many others along the way.

In a response TikTok, one woman harkens back to her own memories of young wife-hood, saying she couldn’t cook a “god****” thing. “How about instead of teaching your son to do it in spite, just have him be like a nice human being…oh you’re going to be a brutal mother-in-law!”

In the video, Murgatroyd is staring lovingly at her son Shai, 6, as he stirs something with a whisk in a metal bowl. She takes a break from presumably helping him cook to shoot A Look at the camera, then smiles back at her son.

While she’s obviously joking, parents online didn’t think it was quite so funny.

The dancer, who also recently had her second child, Rio, with Maks Chmerkovskiy, has moved solidly into #boymom territory.

In TikTokker Megan’s response video, parents chime in: “Anyways, Stouffer’s lasagna slaps sometimes! Sometimes you don’t feel like cooking and we still will chow down on that frozen lasagna.” Another wrote, “Mom of 4 boys here. I’m teaching my boys to cook so they’re not a burden on their future partners…”. Yet another called it a “basic human skill” and one simply joked “My son loves Stouffers.” One commenter called her out for doing what “all moms and dads” are already doing, and one said, “Once in a while, I have to thank my mother in law for not being in love with her son.”

Murgatroyd’s video, however lighthearted it was intended, has parents pointing to the fact that teaching their children basic life skills is a must, regardless of gender or traditional gender roles. Aside from arming them with the ability to survive their next 6 to 8 decades after leaving home, cooking doubles as a 21st-century skill and science lesson, a Time article reports.

Recipe failures build resilience, and can even be funny bonding moments for families, as anyone who has bitten into a still gooey cupcake or muffin can attest to. Finally, it’s a go-to memory maker, from holiday cookies to weekly meal prep, that your kid might remember.

But, if they find themselves making Stouffer’s and getting sick of it, luckily for them (and their future spouse), Stouffer’s just rolled out their brand new spicy mac and cheese. Just saying!