If you ask me, cooking is an essential life skill, right along with doing laundry and managing your finances. Even before I became a parent, I knew that raising my kids to be capable cooks would be a priority. Once they came along, they spent an inordinate amount of time in the kitchen with me. I was there often, either developing recipes for work or cooking for our family. When they were tiny, I’d sit them in a high chair and hand them bits of whatever ingredient I was using to make dinner. In grade school, they began to pack their own lunches (and in the process learned what it means to build a balanced meal). By middle school, they could capably follow a recipe, and come high school, they had the skills to make suitably healthy food for any meal of the day.
The whole effort of empowering my kids in the kitchen was a slow and steady process. I didn’t sit them all down and “school” them in any formal way. They picked it up in fits and starts over time. What I learned along the way about kids and cooking naturally spilled over into my work. I’ve spoken about it in talks and podcast interviews, taught cooking classes for young people, written magazine stories and an entire cookbook on the subject, and published close to a dozen blog posts on engaging kids in kitchen.
If you want to learn more, check out the ideas in inspo below. It’s truly everything you need to know about teaching kids co cook. If you have tips of your own to share, please do in the comments section of this post.
Everything You Need to Know About Teaching Kids To Cook
7 Reasons to Get Kids Cooking
10 Ways to Get Kids Cooking
A Playbook for Getting Teens to Cook During Summer
10 Ways to Get Kids Cooking Breakfast
Teach Kids to Pack School Lunch. Here’s How.
10 Cooking Skills Every Teen Should Know Before They Leave the Nest
10 Great Cooking Tools for Kids
12 Fun Foodie Gifts for Kids
15 Cooking Projects for Kids
A Cookbook Tailor Made for Young Cooks
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