By Daniel Bates Last updated at 12:29 AM on 13th June 2009
The courses teach teens how to make simple dinners rather than reach for the microwaveable burger
University used to be the place where teenagers finally learned to look after themselves.
But now overprotective parents are sending them to camps to teach them even the most basic of life skills before they go.
They are paying for intensive residential courses where their teenagers are taught everything from what boiling water looks like to how to put on a duvet cover.
Cordon bleu chefs from some of the country's finest cookery schools also give classes on how a potato peeler works and how to turn on a grill.
The organisers insist that today's 'convenience society' means mothers no longer have the time to pass on their knowledge to their children.