Secret to Teaching Kids

by Harv Kay
Teaching Kids While Cooking

Its no secret. Teaching kids requires innovation and a lot of time the conventional ways of teaching needs to be complemented. Teaching children can come in different forms. Cooking is perhaps a teaching tool which has probably not got enough attention. It's an amazing tool and a wonderful secret to teaching children. A lot of learning happens when cooking. Teaching kids while cooking is fun and easy and complements formal learning processes and methods.

Personally, I found the 'secret' accidently. My 2 year, who is now 9 showed a lot of interest in what I was doing and I realised that he wanted to be part of my activities to spend time with me. With the fast pace of live, parents find it hard to spend quality time with their kids. Cooking is probaby one of the solutions everyone's got to eat and someone's got to cook.

Cooking is a fantastic method to give children the knowledge of so many things within just half an hour. They learn everything from math to hygiene and nutrition to social skills and responsibilities.

Here's just some basics about making cooking part of your daily lives and why it should be done with children:

The whole process of cooking in itself instills the sense of responsibility of the cook or the preparer a meal needs to be prepared for the family or guest;
Kids learn about fruits, vegetables and other food groups.
What better way to teach nutrition than while cooking
A short first aid lesson in when discussing the cuts, scrapes and burns that can result from inattention while cooking.
Get the kids involved in shopping for the ingredients which will give you and your child some quality time,
While shopping you can teach kids about the importance of money management and budgeting
Creating menus will allow your child is just as much about some input
It helps with reading abilities
And much more

The kids are learning and not knowing it! Getting children involved through cooking builds bonds and if it is made into a reasonable fun session, the child will be with us everytime we are in the kitchen. Also, let them make a mess - that's what children are about and help them clean up afterwards. Make the whole cooking experience pleasant for the kids. Cooking is an excellant way to be with our children, teach them a lot of things and build a closeness. And yes, we don't need to be good cooks - it is for everyone no matter how novice at cooking. Even we only know how to boil water - there is a lot to teach - from safety to science.

Article submitted Friday, January 01, 2010 & read 139 times.

Harv Kay enjoys writing and continuously looks for topics on personal growth and kids. Kay currently maintains 2 sites, on teaching kids while cooking and Solution To Hair Loss

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