The Rewards of Teaching Your Kids to Cook
Experts will tell you that if kids become involved in the kitchen, they will adopt healthy habits that will last a lifetime. There’s a program in California called The Edible Schoolyard that teaches kids to grow and cook their own food, for that very reason.
Kids that help plan and prepare the family meals are more likely to try food they wouldn’t have if Mom served it to them.
They will learn skills that will help them to avoid the expense and dietary pitfalls of depending on takeout and restaurant meals as they grow older.
But for me, the rewards are much more immediate. Take, for example, the Chinese Chicken Wrap you see in this photo. Annie prepared it for our dinner tonight with minimal supervision from me (I only guided her in poaching the chicken). Joe and I took Louisa to her basketball game and when we returned, Annie had dinner ready for us to eat.
Not just that, she even concocted a little dessert for us – a cup of crushed graham cracker cookies, ice cream cones, nutella, strawberries, Fluff and whipped cream.
Do you need any other excuse to teach your kids to want to cook?
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Wow, I am so impressed! Would Annie like to spend a week with me?
Why do I hear the faint strains of CSNY
“Teach your children well…Don’t you ever ask them why, if they told you, you would cry, So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.”
Teach your Children
Perhaps. But why would I let her go right after I’ve trained her up?