Any Home Bakers Here?

[cheepteach]

good for you! the sooner your child knows his way safely around a kitchen, the less worries you will have! When my kids are too short to use the stove (gas stove-I was worried about flame), we cooked on an electric skillet at the table. Don't they eat better when they cook it??

 

[3goodeggs]

Just reading about the kids and cooking. It is pretty shocking how many kids and adults don't know how to cook and how many parents who do know how to cook, dont let their kids help when they want to. Here's my son, who just turned five, making French toast with me this morning.

My mother would not allow me to do much of anything because it would make more work for her. I had the opposite mentality. It was an opportunity for him to learn and grow and become self reliant.
As a toddler, He would make sandwiches from whatever was in the refrigerator.
He'd get quite creative,
We had rice, lettuce, and peanut butter sandwiches once.
again, It is a learning experience.
We learned to leave off the peanut butter.

 

[cheepteach]

my mom was the same way--stay out of HER kitchen! our house rule is: you clean as you go, but if you cooked you don't have to do final clean-up.
my son enjoys cooking more than my daughter--he will come home with ideas.--some are better than others!

 

[Alice28]

I know the whole letting your kids help is messy, takes longer and adds more stress. Some of it is generational, the stay out of the kitchen thing, makes me sad. He loves to help me cook. There are times Id prefer not having his help, but if he is interested then I need to let him. All my daycare kids love when we make bread, they each bring the loaf they made home and for cinco de mayo we made guacamole with the daycare and that was also a blast. If they are always helping then thy know how to do it when they are older. He wa very happy with his French toast today!

 

[N F C]

Did we all have the same mom??

My mom never taught us how to cook anything really (she did let me make boxed cake mixes for special occasions). On the other hand, my dad's mom (grandma to me) was a wonderful baker, she even made all the baked goods for the school in her tiny town. Grades K-8 got grandma's dinner rolls, bread, cookies, cinnamon rolls, etc. When she came to visit us we would come home from school to find the entire kitchen covered with doughnuts, kolaches, pies, bread. And she never minded us "helping". Guess that's where I learned my love of baking.

My boys learned how to cook, clean up and do their own laundry. Now that they're grown they might not make the fanciest meals but they do know how to feed themselves. And we used to have so much fun cooking together. It's a real chance for bonding when you cook with someone.

 

[sunflour]

Just reading about the kids and cooking. It is pretty shocking how many kids and adults don't know how to cook and how many parents who do know how to cook, dont let their kids help when they want to. Here's my son, who just turned five, making French toast with me this morning.

How sweet! Bet his are better than mine.

You are so right, most folks don't cook at all. My neighbors get fast food breakfasts and eat out EVERY night! Personally I don't like eating out, but DH is our Cook!

 

[N F C]

How sweet! Bet his are better than mine.

You are so right, most folks don't cook at all. My neighbors get fast food breakfasts and eat out EVERY night! Personally I don't like eating out, but DH is our Cook!

x2!

 

[wyoDreamer]

My sister has pictures of her son, in diapers, standing on a chair at the stove making spaghetti sauce. Spaghetti sauce was his specialty...
He also would vacuum and dust for her - then he grew up. By the time he was in high school, he was totally into computers and never steps into the kitchen except to ask when supper will be ready.

 

[N F C]

 

[cheepteach]

our local high school offerred a "bachelor Survival Skills" class and there was a waiting list of boys who wanted to take it! I hope our next generation will re-claim the kitchen and get away from fast foods!