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Cooking with Your Toddler

The next meal you make, consider asking your toddler to help. Toddlers can be so much fun to cook with, and the educational value of the activity to high. In a short cooking session, you can introduce your child to language arts, math, science and life skills. And toddlers just love to help out. They get a great sense of accomplishment from doing things on their own, especially when they are “grown up” activities. As I mentioned earlier in a previous post, I love cooking with my toddler, especially in the early morning. I’ll share some of the things I … Continue reading →

Cooking with Your Young Baby

Cooking with a baby can be a lot of fun. Yes, it can be done. As I mentioned earlier, cooking together is a way of spending quality time and introducing your little one to all sorts of new experiences and life lessons. I started cooking with my children almost as soon as they were out of the womb, and you can too. Some people wait for the baby to nap before getting their cooking out of the way, but I always found it nice to be able to cook with your baby. By the way, if you missed the introductory … Continue reading →

Cooking with Kids from Baby through Toddler

One of my favorite things to do is to cook with my kids. When we cook together, we get to spend great quality time while being productive. Cooking together is also sharing in valuable life lessons, and introduces important life skills. You child will be introduced to new smells, new textures and even new vocabulary. There is also a lot of math and science involved with cooking. Although sometimes we all cook together, I find that spending that one-on-one time with each child separately while cooking can be a lot of fun and allow me to focus on the lessons … Continue reading →

Kids Cooking? Make Sure the Fire Extinguisher is Handy

My teens have been cooking forever. First, of course, they were just helping mom in the kitchen and while we still often make meal preparation or baking a group activity–they are cooking more and more on their own. Even after a couple years, I have still not become entirely comfortable with them creating their own concoctions in the kitchen–owing mostly to my still finding the occasional stove burner or oven left on, napkins too close to the stove, etc. What I do know is that while I have always had a fire extinguisher in the kitchen–when my kids became regular … Continue reading →