Cindy Lee Master
So let me tell you the story.
My 11 year old, and her friend wanted to make pancakes for breakfast.  They couldn't find pancake mix in my cabinet and wanted to know what to do.  I said look up a recipe and make them from scratch.  This is the recipe they found...and if is pretty easy for little girls with minimal experience  doing it by themselves.  First, I know the dry ingredients we're not sifted, and the butter came out if the butter dish softened, but not melted.  (I could see the little white lumps of butter throughout the batter). But I didn't say anything...I wanted to let them learn.  They had a few questions about measurements, but other than that, I wasn't even in the kitchen.  They accidentally added extra vanilla and they added chocolate chips....and honestly, they were really pretty yummy.  My husband called them pancake cookies, because they tasted more like chocolate chip cookies, but with a pancake texture.  Would they be fluffier if they did it exactly as written, sure, but that wasn't the point....it was a great learning (and very forgiving) recipe.