If I have to choose a parent to live with in the divorce, I choose Cooking Mama.
I love these kinds of games, so much so that I 100% Fast Food Panic and Sushi Academy and still have Iron Chef on my cart. But this about as horrible as Gardening Mama was for many reasons that I will now list:
* Graphically the game is horrible. I realize there wasn't much to do with science experiments, but trying to do them 3D doesn't work. It would have looked better as stylized 2D drawings.
* Cooking Mama doesn't talk too much. Science Papa won't shut up.
* Cooking Mama might be OCD about getting every task done, but once you've done a plate you can move on. I'm stuck at 297 rep and can't do my first science competition unless I repeat the same 3 hair dye, stink bomb, or culture experiments over and over again obsessively.